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Looks like this thread hasn't been updated for a while. Anyways, I will add new links here, in case someone is checking the thread. All of these have updated Egypt information:
Language
Arabic is the official language; English and French are used by an educated elite; Nobiin, Berber and Coptic are used for religious purposes.
Area size...
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It was interesting to note that the literacy rate for women was half that of men and that even in 2002 almost 60% of the female population could not read. As this would be a national rather than a...
Cairo Scene
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STARTING NEXT SUNDAY, NOT WEARING A FACE MASK IN PUBLIC COULD NET YOU AN IMMEDIATE EGP 50 FINE
Starting next Sunday, January 3rd, a new fine will be given to those who don't wear...
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I would see it as an advantage to wear a mask in Egypt for tourists, not for obvious reasons. Shades and a mask can aid against hassle. They see nothing they can read. Does or did the two metre rule...
Professor of Egyptology Ahmed Badran announced that the inauguration of the Grand Egyptian Museum is slated for November, and will witness the grand debut of the Opera Tutankhamun.
During a phone-in...
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I first met 'the Prat in the hat way back on the Giza Plateau well over 20 years ago.
I have friends that have known him for even longer and locally to Luxor
the older generation can tell of many...
Upon rereading my old books on Egypt this popped into my mind.
The Hormoheb Hotel.
Many years ago I went shopping in Cairo with my hotel owning pal.
He said that he had once stayed in this hotel for...
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I've stayed at the Horemheb a few nights. Then I headed off to Khan El Khaliki. There is a Hotel up from the Horemheb in the direction of the pyramids if this is the same Horemheb on Pyramid Street....
Graduates of Egypt’s public medical schools lack basic medical skills for dealing with emergencies when they start work, due to outdated academic curricula and teaching methods, medical experts say....
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2.4 % vaccinated from the figures I can find.
And only 16400 deaths.
Quite startling really. The latter figure that is.
With those sort of figures maybe I should be taking my chances in Egypt. :wi...
The decision of the Ministry of Tourism regarding dealing with the tourist during their stay in Egypt or any tourist area in Egypt.
The decision stipulates that it is not allowed to accompany...
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We used to travel all over the place in those white mini buses, all reasonably new and every trip contained at least 3 Egyptians on board. Had to go through many checkpoints, never had any problems...
Egypt is to scrap testing for all fully vaccinated travellers, including arrivals from the UK.
The health ministry confirmed that double jabbed visitors can forgo the current requirement to present...
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I met a friend for lunch today and she was saying how she had got a last minute couple of tickets for Wimbledon tomorrow. She said they needed to take their Covid vaccine appointment cards with them,...
The latest lunacy project....a suspension bridge over Lake Nasser.
Wazir said that a contract will soon be signed to build the longest suspension bridge over Lake Nasser to accommodate the railway...
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Back in January 2019 the then chief minister at the F.C.O., (or should I now call it F.C.D.O.), a man called Boris Johnson, suggested it might be a good idea to build a bridge across the English...
Red list countries and territories
What you must do if you have been in a country or territory on the red list in the 10 days before you arrive in England.
If you have been in a country or...
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It may be the UK has come to realise, the Covid infections and deaths are numbers that are not reliable, due to sunset burials without proper examinations and due to the lack of IT boffins it must...
The Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt on Tuesday has delayed the application of new prices for foreigner visit fees to archaeological sites and museums until May 2022.
This came during a...
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The headline is a bit misleading! its not free, just the increases in fees are delayed :roll: Egypt knows how to attract the tourists back :D
A few days ago I was looking at some photographs I had of the happy and interesting visits to Garagous Pottery. This evening I have seen this article. I hope that some kind of intervention can take...
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What a shame we still have got a lot of pottery from our numerous visits there.
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