hi everyone, im new here, have just found you due to someone putting a link on es, so thought why not go and see what its all about lol, im actually searching for somewhere to stay when i come to egypt in couple of weeks and thought maybe ill find some link or maybe find some help finding where i should look, i have been there several times, this will be my first visit alone, does any one else here go it alone for holidays to egypt?? if so would love to hear from you anyway now i got tht out of the way ill continue looking here

Hi jennifer
welcome to ELF

what parts of Egypt have u visited?
It really depends what you are looking for, e.g if you want to see ancient sites then its Aswan and Luxor you should go to. Or if you want more of a night life and being around other foreign visitors you should check out the resort areas of Sharm and Hurghada.

But personally to see and experience Egyptian culture and be around real everyday egyptians its best to see Alexandria and Cairo to blend in the hustle and bustle

i am going to land in cairo and guess im staying there the entire visit, i have been to hurghada didn really like it, went to luxor loved the sites hated the harrasment, went to alex loved it loved it loved it, went to sharm not too keen on it, too many tourists lol,went to dahab wow what a lovely place, but was out of season n quiet so not sure it always like tht or not but loved it so much, and of course as i said cairo, not my first visit there, but my first alone, bit scarey, but guess ill be staying there the 2 weeks,

I loved Alexandria the most as I lived there for a year whilst studying, lovely city and the best weather I have experienced abroad I would say.

I enjoyed Old Cairo seeing the old Mosques and architecture. Nasser City is also a nice part too. But for me Cairo is way too crowded and polluted. But in the Summer all the Cairo peeps come to Alex and it gets populated there too!

you can say that again, i was in alex in april, it was near on impossible to get on the beach, and im guessing it maybe even worse in august, if thats possible, but it is lovely there all the same, i actually liked it a bit more when it was busy than when i went in febuary as then it was pretty quiet, but made walking around without bumping into people a lot easier

Hey jennifer nice to see you here ,is that Kleo hope you like here too .

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Thank you Egyptian Strawberry got to say it seems pretty friendly here, not seen anything negative so far

We are a friendly bunch here, invite some of your friends over so we can grow the community.

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jennifer have you seen the turkishliving forum Turkish Living Forum - Home it has over 6000 members there, hopefully we can get this one that popular someday

i will for sure