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Trafalgar Tour - Best of Egypt

Day 2 - On your own, in Cairo

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A view of a very nice street near the Fairmont Heliopolis Hotel

According to the documentation provided by Trafalgar, Day 1 is actually spent leaving your home, and sleeping on the airplane. You really arrive in Cairo on "Day 2" of the tour, and there are no tours scheduled for day 2, so the guided portion of the tour doesn't start until day 3.

We arriving at the Cairo airport flying with Royal Jordanian. We were bussed from the airplane to the terminal. At the entrance to the terminal, there were a number of tour representatives each holding signs for their tour company. In Egypt, Trafalgar Tours are operated with another company called "Spring Tours". I'm not sure what the relationship between Trafalgar and Spring Tours is, but somehow they are related.

After meeting the Trafalgar representative, he accompanied us through the Passport Control line, where we had our visas stamped. (As advised, we obtained our visas prior to leaving Canada). The representative waited as we obtained our luggage, then took us to a shuttle bus that drove us to our hotel for that night - the Fairmont Heliopolis Hotel. He also gave us an envelope that told us what optional tours were available, and asked us to choose which ones we wanted to go on by the following morning.

Since we arrived in Cairo in the early afternoon, we had time to go for a little walk, and find somewhere for dinner. We had stayed in a nearby country for a few days, so we had already adjusted to the time change. Rather than eating in our hotel, we did some exploring and ate at a nearby restaurant that had some english on their sign - Bistro Fast Food and Catering. Since our flight to Luxor left at 6a the next morning, our wake up call was at 3:00a. We went to sleep soon after dinner.