If this is your first trip to Cairo, you'll visit the Pyramids. If this is your second, third or even fourth trip to Cairo (lucky you), you'll visit the Pyramids. No matter what travelogue, television program or movie you have seen featuring the awe-inspiring Pyramids, it is only while standing next to a humungous stone block that its immensity will sink in. Tour operators literally run clients through the Giza Pyramid Sights, Coptic Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Citadel, Mosques, Bazaar and other sites in one brief day. It's no wonder tourists are left with just enough energy to fall into bed with brain spinning like a gerbil wheel. Cairo is a city that gets short shrift with much to see and worth a repeat visit. This Guide to Cairo will give brief information about iconic sights, omitting facts easily found on the Internet. Learn how to navigate the Cairo airport; what to miss (not everything is perfect); and suggest rarely visited options for those with more time or who are paying a return visit. Let Travels With Sheila teach you how to Travel the World on a Budget, share exotic locations known only to locals, and most importantly, ease your fears about languages, currencies, personal safety and staying healthy. Follow her advice to avoid making mistakes she learned the hard way during four separate Egyptian trips. HERE'S SOME OF THE INFORMATION YOU'LL FIND INSIDE... - Important Tips for Traveling in Egypt. - The Dos and Don'ts of Cairo Tour Inclusions. - Visit more of Cairo's Important and Historical Sights Now, Travels With Sheila tells it like it is with personalized, up-to-date information, and photographs to make the most of your time in Cairo. Twenty-five million tourists a year come to see the Pyramids. What about the rest of Cairo filled with some of the warmest, most hospitable people you'd ever want to meet?
About the Author: Sheila Simkin, a native Chicagoan, has been traveling the world since 1960. The travel bug first hit on her honeymoon in Miami. Fidel Castro had just taken over Cuba and lured by rock-bottom prices, Sheila sweet-talked her ex-husband into abandoning Miami for Cuba. That marked the beginning of her lifetime travel passion and addiction. There are very few countries that are not on her to-see list no matter how remote and/or difficult they may be with many, "What was I thinking of" moments in hindsight. The U.S. State Department recognizes 193 independent countries and she has visited over 150 in over 40 years of travel (but...who's counting). Touring, hiking, trekking, rafting, snowshoeing, skiing, volunteering on archaeological digs, family trips and, she must admit, occasionally sitting on a beach and compulsively shopping. Her goal is to encourage you to take the big step and travel to more exotic, remote destinations with tips, anecdotes and reassurance that, yes, you will come back alive. Visit her "travelswithsheila" channel on YouTube to watch over 1,400 videos filmed around the world and covering the gamut from taking a cruise to camping in Egypt's desert, food (fried tarantulas, anyone?), sights and even instructions on how to navigate subways in Paris and Beijing. All Travels With Sheila Guides will tell you the truth, and only the whole truth, about each country and whether sights are a hit, or a miss. Follow Sheila's advice to avoid making mistakes she learned the hard way. For example, not knowing that an important piece of equipment when camping or trekking is...an AIR MATTRESS? A never to be forgotten experience spent in a sleeping bag on the cold, hard ground of Nepal. And what kind of crazy idiot goes trekking in Siberia and gets lost? Really...lost in Siberia? Only Sheila. Happy traveling!