Food, Drink & Travel

In Suez we were detained for more than five hours by the military intelligence troops for taking innocent pictures of the Suez canal. The whole canal, with the exception of its entrance in Port Tafwiq in Suez, is a military zone and, therefore, off limits for tourists. There [...]

The Tourist Police give their OK to tourists taking first and second class trains between Alexandria and Aswan, but not any other (no class) trains. They advise only flights from Aswan to Abu Simbel as the road is too dangerous. Other travellers have reported about the security convoys to and from sites in central Egypt. [...]