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Hotels I Liked the Most in Egypt

angel — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:47:08 +0000

I have been already sharing with you my Egypt travel experience. Sorry for constant repetition but this country enchanted me and I told you a lot about food, dangers, secrets, people BUT I failed to share with you info about one of the most important part of any trip – HOTELS. So, my dears, I was in Egypt three times, two of them I was in Hurghada, a very controversial city (most people don’t even treat it as a resort) but I don’t belong to them. So while going there I was looking for such hotels capable of ensuring: luxurious rest, great facilities, pleasant service, nice location, tasty food (fresh juices) and not extremely high rates, after some suggestions I decided to choose:

Le Meridien Makadi Bay Hotel Hurghada

Although most travellers claimed it to be not very beautiful and in general so-so… I must say, I liked it, especially its 6,400 square metre swimming pool. To my mind the only one drawback of this hotel is its location – it is so far from the city center. ((( Anyway, you can check it out here.

Steigenberger Al Dau Beach Hotel Hurghada

And this hotel left me speechless. Its swimming polls are definitely not so great as in Le Meridien, but it closer to the center, provides priceless Internet connection, it is newer, so cleaner and more beautiful. I had ULTRA All Incl, so mango fresh juices made my days ))). The only one thing I didn’t like about it – the hotel is new and its territory is not very green. Check the photos here and in my Flickr photostream.

As to the prices, they are definitely higher than in usual 5-star hotels. I was checking them at HotelsCombined.

Enjoy your rest!

Flowers In Egypt

angel — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:21:44 +0000

Egypt… I was there, I mean in Egypt and this country has impressed me greatly. Not because it is a completely another world with its own culture and traditions, but ’cause it has a lot of worth looking places. This time I paid my attention to flowers. Unfortunately, I don’t know there names or titles (as you wish!), but I just like them. Rains are rare visitors in Egypt, but flowers are still amazing. Just imagine, how it is challenging to water them everyday, to take care about them and to grow flowers among the desert.

Most of these flowers were in our hotel “SteigenBerger”. It’s a new and quickly developing hotel right on the seashore. It is surrounded by palm-trees and flowers. Grass in not bad their. I even made a hand in golf. Just look and enjoy!

By the way, I don’t know whether they are synthetic or not, but they had no smell. Strange flowers!

New Type of Travelling and Tourism – Quest Tour

angel — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:43:49 +0000

I suppose, everybody knows, that there are different types of rest and travelling, but the world constantly undergoes the process of changing, so new types of tours appear.

Today, I would like to tell you more about a very interesting type of travelling – a quest-tour. It is a brand new technique of travelling. A quest tour is an adventure that contains a scenario of play , a so-called quest. Truly speaking, it is a new kind of an active tourism, but the role of sport plays a logic play. There are no analogues of this tour in the world!

As a rule, participants of a quest tour have to move a lot, think a lot, make various decisions, find answers onto questions and puzzles, dive under the water, climb the mountains, even struggle, thus, provoking extremely strong feelings and adrenalin. Participants of the game find themselves in a very unusual atmosphere, moreover, these games go in various foreign countries. Organizers try to make games in popular places and sightseeings, so in such a way, participants can play and simultaneously get acquainted with a culture of this or that country.

Main aim of a quest tour can be the following: looking for treasure, detective investigation, how to survive on the island, business creation and so on.

There are 2 types of quest-tours:

regular quest-tour – a lot of travellers (sometimes unknown to each other participate in them), they are constantly changing and becoming better
individual quest-tour – is developed in accordance with the preferences and wishes of a traveler. A person can make his or her own scenario and choose a place of its location.

Purpose of any quest-tour is to make lives of people interesting. There is a great number of people, who hates simply lying on the beach and catching tan, they adore having fun, adore adventures. We want to set talents of people free and show them another sides of their personalities. Every minute of a quest-tour is full with intrigue and risk, quest is almost like a real life. What is more, we are looking for special places, not known to public. Would you like to enjoy?