Alexandria is one of the less visited cities of Egypt but to me I think it was one of the more beautiful cities. Alexandria takes its name from Alexander the Great king of Macedonia. It is a lovely city that lays north-west of the Nile delta and stretches along the narrow land strip between the Mediterranean Sea and Lake Mariut.
It is the second largest city and the main Port of Egypt and it was built by the Greek architect Dinocrates (332-331BC) at the orders of Alexander the Great. The city has a very Modern feeling yet the old architecture that remains reminds you that this is a really old city. The people here were very friendly and due to the small number of foreign tourists that come here, no one was out to rip you off and things were much cheaper than Cairo and Luxor.
We only had a day here but there is not really a lot to see here. It is more of a place you would come to relax by the sea. We visited the catacombs which is a place where many dead people were buried underground. They actually think there are some famous tombs here but they can not dig any further as there has been a school built in the area and they can not afford to destroy it.
We saw the fort of Qaitbay which kind of looks like a lovely castle by the sea and then of course there is Pompeii Pillar. There are many ancient roman and Greek like ruins in this city due to its history. The Pillar is made of Granite and is 27 meters high and 9 metres in diameter. The pillar was erected by the Egyptians to honour the Roman governor Diocletian who brought wheat in the famine.
. I was quite comfortable here and found it to be clean and easy to get around. The first thing you notice here is that the Temple of Karnak is so close to the modern temple of McDonald’s. You can not escape the golden arches anywhere in the world these days, even the land of an amazing ancient civilization has succumb to the effects of globalization. The Temple of Karnak is amazing I think it’s my favorite and Melanie was also pretty impressed 
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games and do some belly dancing. There were two couples who were Sophie’s friends and also did the cruise with us. We all got dressed up and looked pretty cool. A few of the guys look like Arab sheiks but Josip looks like a Muslim 
man going to pray but he is supposed to be a Nubian Egyptian.
my self so much in my life, as it was all inclusive and all you can eat, we both went a bit crazy. Before we set sail we went and visited Temple of Philae, it was just a taste of what was to come.
