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The world tour
Rest in Egypt
In the north of Egypt, as well as on the Red Sea resorts summer is hot and dry, in the delta of the Nile River and the Mediterranean coast-wet. The air temperature in the Red Sea resorts in Cairo from May to September 35-40 C, the temperature of the water in the Red Sea in this period is usually 26-28 C. In Hurghada summer heat is much easier because of the constant sea breeze, so the flow of tourists this town is not weakened or winter, no letom.Vesna and autumn are very short. Within 50 days (khamsin) between March and mid May occasionally occur sandstorms. But they do not reach the Red Sea coast, where the famous Egyptian resorts. The mountains effectively protect them from unwanted intrusion. Winter in Egypt is mild, with warm sunny days and cool nights are sometimes
LUXOR Visit the world's largest cities, open-air museum of Luxor includes familiarity with grandiose Karnak temple, Luxor temple, the temple of Queen Hatshepsut (which shows the annual opera "Aida"), the famous Valley of the Kings, where the Theban pharaohs built their tombs in the cliffs, valleys Queens, where not only the wives bury the pharaohs, but the sooner the dead Egyptian prince. CAIRO comfortable bus with air conditioning and a video for six hours takes you to the largest city in Africa - Cairo. The program usually includes a visit to familiarity with the view of the city, visiting the Egyptian Museum, the famous pyramids of Giza and the Great Sphinx, Papyrus museum, perfume factories, markets and fairs of jewelry products made of leather. JEEP SAFARI, SAFARI-MOTO race around the sand hills on a jeep or a motorcycle through the desert to meet with the Bedouin, ride a camel, and learn how to extract the water in the sands. You will see the sunset of the grand majesty of desert mountains, enjoy a meal by candlelight and hear uncanny silence of the desert and you will be charmed by a star-studded night sky. SUBMARINE AND AKVASKOP Akvaskopy - a special surface ships to underwater capsule for 10 passengers. They have two huge, covering the entire wall, portholes, located at a depth of 3.5-4 meters. During the walk you will see the famous coral reefs - turquoise, gold, crimson, pink, and the extraordinary inhabitants of these waters. The submarine "Sinbad" down to a depth of 25 meters. Through the windows, on either side, you can enjoy the magnificent spectacle of the underwater world of the Red Sea. Nile cruise on the Nile Cruise - one of the most fascinating tourist destinations. Today, the services of tourists -250 comfortable ships, more than 100 of them, floating five-star hotels with restaurants, bars, discos, shops and swimming pools. Along the banks of the Nile are the most famous monuments of ancient civilization of Egypt. Some of the most famous - the temples of Luxor and Karnak, located on the left bank of the Nile. Today, you can see the Karnak complex of temples built between the XX century. BC at the end of the 1st millennium BC Luxor temple, dedicated as a complex of Karnak, Amun-Re, Mut and Khonsu, and still amazes the traveler a unique elegance and grandeur of its colonnades royal colossi. You will have the opportunity to see firsthand the uniqueness and elegance of the temple of Queen Hatshepsut in the Valley of the Pharaohs. On the way to Aswan you will see the Temple of Edfu and the Temple of Kom Ombo. Temple of Edfu is built with the Greeks, shortly before the onset of a new era, but its architecture combines the best traditions of the ancient Egyptian architecture. Picturesquely situated on a hill temple of Kom Ombo, built by the Ptolemies and the Romans. He was devoted to both krokodilogolovomu god Sebek and the god Horus the Elder to the head of a falcon. In this journey you will inspect the Aswan High Dam, unfinished obelisk of Queen Hatshepsut and the Temple of Philae. At first glance, the Aswan Dam is striking grandeur of conception. The dam was erected 11 years: to dam the river using a quantity of sand, clay, stone, cement, and that from it we could build the pyramids of Cheops 17. CORAL ISLANDS, FISHING morning takes away your pleasure boat, and within an hour it reaches the coral reefs. All issued fins, tubes and masks, and you are greeted by an amazing picture of the underwater world of the Red Sea. Diving in the crystal water column, you will see countless flocks of tropical fish: silvery sardine, tuna, mackerel, bonito bright blue. Time flies quickly, and now dinner, cooked right on the ship, waiting for hungry tourists. After resting the ship returns to shore.
Nature and Climate
In the north of Egypt, as well as on the Red Sea resorts summer is hot and dry, in the delta of the Nile River and the Mediterranean coast-wet. The air temperature in the Red Sea resorts in Cairo from May to September 35-40 C, the temperature of the water in the Red Sea in this period is usually 26-28 C. In Hurghada summer heat is much easier because of the constant sea breeze, so the flow of tourists this town is not weakened or winter, no letom.Vesna and autumn are very short. Within 50 days (khamsin) between March and mid May occasionally occur sandstorms. But they do not reach the Red Sea coast, where the famous Egyptian resorts. The mountains effectively protect them from unwanted intrusion. Winter in Egypt is mild, with warm sunny days and cool nights are sometimes
State structure and language
Egypt - a presidential republic! President Hosni Mubarak holds a secular politics and popular among the people (he was a military pilot and graduated from military school in the USSR). In Egypt, a parliament, a multiparty system, the trade unions. The main items of revenue are Egypt, taxes, tourism and the Suez Canal, the industry. Egypt produces and sells electricity, fertilizers building materials, weapons, movies, products of light industry, agriculture, and of course the famous Egyptian cotton. The Egyptian dialect of Arabic, in educated circles English is widely spoken and french.
The ancient peoples of Egypt appear to us as bearers of the highest civilization, arriving as if from another world. For six thousand years ago, at a time when people of the world has hardly left the stone age, creating a culture more or less the same level for all regions of the world, the Egyptians appear mature enough and ready to quickly overcome the barriers of human possibilities, as it were, by their life experiences in another, unusually developed, world. So on the ground, moistened Neal, began a unique and unrepeatable experience of centuries has developed rapidly, creating works of art and science of great value (for the whole future of mankind), beyond the time frame. Construction of the Cheops pyramid in an era when no knowledge of iron and wheels, is still unexplained mystery. Our surprise increases even more when we learn that even before the buildings of the Great Pyramids Egyptians had technology that can adjust the level of water on lands flooded Nile for thousands of miles, and turn the swamp or the same in the new desert paradise on earth! Considering the pace of development of other nations, some of whom remained at the Neolithic era to the present day practice, we understand that the residents of "Planet Egypt" ahead of the history of our world for about two thousand years. Moreover, they have given impetus to such power that he felt after five thousand years. Funds used in these huge achievements - it is water and fire, that is, Nile and the Sun. The gun is not given, but forged, crafted by ancient peoples, the destruction brought by water and fire, they were transformed into effect, fertilizing the land and life of Egypt. The man worked with Isis and Osiris to recreate life, to give the ground an image of paradise, the paradise of the earth, is reunited with in heaven. Egypt - not the Promised Land: the land, created by man, day after day, year after year, product, renewing without end, where the creation is mixed with the image of the Creator. There is no sharp distinction between gods and men: there the gods dwell among mortals, and their faces - these are the same images of human faces or animals around them on earth and in heaven, their hands are invisible, and as infinite as the sun's rays. Each piece of Egyptian land - water and the universal, cosmic fire, death and resurrection, the essence of the human and the divine essence. Neal and draw a sun and two rings without borders, enclosing the entire universe (this world and hereafter), draw a road on which the new man with a "world of Egypt" looking for meaning and purpose of his eternal journey. Those of us men of the twentieth century after Christ, who can still re-experience the delicate balance between the road and the road of Fire Water, will understand the meaning of sailing in a boat under sail to Upper Egypt. And perhaps they will find again the invisible bridge connecting the sources of our history, once again felt the deep emotions experienced by our ancestors, when five thousand years ago, they listened to the song, rises above the Nile with the advent of the new year: "Come the water of life, stemming from the the sky, the water of life come bubbling out of the ground. sky and the earth trembles burns from the parish of Great Deity. western and eastern mountains opens up, the great deity of Egypt takes possession of the body. "
Holidays and days vyhodnyae
New Year - January 1, Sinai Liberation Day - 25 April Labour Day - May 1, the Islamic New Year, Ras al-Sana al-Higriyya Anniversary of the Revolution 1952 - July 23 birthday of the Prophet (Mulid-oh-Nabi) is celebrated in honor of the Prophet Muhammad . Armed Forces Day - October 6.
Personal items can be imported into the country and out of the country without customs declaration. Be declared camcorder (cameras and accessories in the declaration are not required). Taken out of the country permitted goods worth up to 200 Egyptian pounds. Visitors over the age of 20 years can bring with them up to 1 liter of spirits and 2 liters of beer, over 15 years - 200 cigarettes or 50 cigars. The export of antiquities from Egypt, corals and other marine flora and fauna (even picked up on the shore). In case of violation of this prohibition you will be fined $ 1,000. For the importation of drugs into Egypt stipulates severe punishment
Money, currency exchange
Currency - Egyptian pound, it is divided into 100 piastres. Banknotes - 100, 50, 20, 10, 5 and 1 pound, piastres in coins: 25, 20, 10, 5, and in notes 50, 25. Exchange points are located in each hotel.
Transport
The most convenient and inexpensive form of transport - a taxi. The price is better to negotiate with the driver beforehand.
The difference in time
Lags behind in Kiev for one hour (only in summer)
Shopping
There are no specific hours of shopping there. In winter shops are generally open from 9:00 till 20:00 with a lunch break, at least from 12:00 to 14:00. Supermarkets are usually open longer. In the summer lunch, usually lasts from 14:00 to 16:00. Many shops are closed only 21:00-22:00. Banks are open daily, except Fridays and Saturdays, from 8:30 to 15:30. Branches in major hotels sometimes work around the clock. Mail is open from Saturday to Thursday from 8:00 to 15:00, public institutions - every day except Friday, from 8:00 to 14:00
Useful phone numbers
Local calls can be made from pay phones, which many in the large cities, or from post offices, where there are reduced rates for international calls to countries in Europe. Call to Ukraine and the CIS can operate directly from a hotel room (the cost of a call about 20 pounds per minute). You can call from the hotel lobby, where there are special rooms with telephones (13 pounds per minute), or purchase a phone card that can be used in specially equipped phones, vending machines (in this case, the tariff is the lowest). To make a call to Ukraine dial 0038 + area code + phone number.
Tips
An integral part of life in Egypt - tipping or baksheesh for minor services. Maids in the hotel decided to give up to 10 pounds a week, and a porter porters 1-2 pounds, cleaners in toilets - 50 piastres. The restaurant is customary to leave 10% of the bill. Do not offer tips to those who by their profession, whose social position is with you on equal terms.
Religion
Most of Egypt's population are Sunni Muslims. About 15% - Christians - cont. (The word "Copt" is translated into Russian as "Egyptian"). The Coptic Orthodox Church is very much different from not only the peculiarities of Russian theological doctrine, but also the architecture of church buildings, statute, order, service, clothing clergy. The most revered saint - St. George. Islam - the youngest world religion. Islam recognizes the Bible, the gospel, all the biblical prophets and Jesus Christ. Muslims believe and worship the same God, the One to whom they pray, Jews and Christians. Of course the Arabic word "Allah" is translated into Russian by the words "One God". This Muslim must know and follow the five pillars of Islam: - recognize that there is a God but one God and that Muhammad - the Messenger of the One God. "Shahada" - to make five times prayer. "Sala" - to observe the fast of Ramadan. "Siyam" - to make at least once in a lifetime pilgrimage to Mecca. "Hajj" - to pay part of their income community. "Zakat"
