{"id":1784,"date":"2019-01-13T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voyage-partage.fr\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2019-02-01T13:01:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T12:01:52","slug":"100-days-in-egypt-2-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voyage-partage.fr\/index.php\/en\/2019\/01\/13\/100-days-in-egypt-2-5\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Days in Egypt, Alexandria 2\/5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s been a little over 100 days since I left France, the right moment to tell you a little more about the places I visited here. So I decided to write a small serie of articles about my excursions. Subscribe here<\/a>, if you want to be warned when a new article in the serie is published. And here<\/a>, if you want to read the articles from the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexandria, the reborn<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Too short, far too short. I only spent two days in Alexandria with my mom. We focused on the sites near the Corniche. Cornice in Egyptian means the road that follows the coast or the bank. So there is also the Corniche in Cairo that follows the Nile etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So we visited Fort Qaitbey, built in 1480 by Sultan Mamluk of the same name, west of the Corniche. I loved it. It is this type of monument open to visitors but with very few informative signs or staging. Basically, you can go everywhere, and you get lost. It reminded me of my palace visits in India. On the first floor there is a hallway overlooking dozens of rooms. This corridor makes the tour of the fort, but not in a completely rectilinear way so you can easily do several times the tour of it without realizing. Or I might have a really very bad sense of direction! Once you have visited the interior, you’ll go to the outside, you can go around the guard road and go to the terraces facing the sea. The view, on the fort, on the sea, on the harbor, on the city… Everything is beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n