Nothing concrete on our agenda today .. so decided to work out in the morning. Enjoyed some very innovative exercise equipment at the beach and later walked for over 1.5 hours. As part of our daily ritual enjoyed full breakfast and checked out late around 11 am. Stored our bags in the luggage room for time being.
The day was warm yet lots of cool breeze, so both of us decided to walk towards Jaffa city. The beach was so clean and pristine .. reminded me of Ft. Lauderdale beach, Florida (where we spent the time during Thanksgiving 09). I loved our walk and was extremely happy with Tel Aviv ... We reached Jaffa in an hour. Jaffa was also conquered by Romans; but much before them around 1200 BC Egyptians came in here too. There is not much to see in Jaffa except for the hanging orange tree, the gardnens, wishing bridge and the old flea market. On our way back we decided to go to Allenby Street for lunch followed by more walking and coffee before reaching back to our hotel at 5:30 pm. We had walked > 8 KMs today and our legs got the cramps. Sosh Eie came in on time and we reached Ben Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv close to 4 hours ahead of our international flight to Cairo.
Lots of people back in the US had scared us about long waiting in the security at the airport. But we found out that it was rather painless. In fact the baggage screening officer saw us and asked us if we liked Bollywood. He was a big fan and got a DVD out of his pants' pockets featuring 2 Hindi movies. Hail Bollywood!
Arrived at Cairo International Airport quite late (11 pm) .. it was bit chaotic and completely undisciplined. Met with our local guide Mehmood and we together drove to our hotel Tiba Pyramids, Giza (the worst hotel in the whole trip). We are staying here for 1 night and later keep extra bags in the luggage room. From tomorrow, 3 night cruise on Nile and we return back to this hotel to spend 1 more night before ending our trip. Tomorrow flying early to Aswan. Its 2 am almost and we better sleep.
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