Some comments
missing from the Travellers’ Guides

Food & Meals:

• Drink only bottled water (pay attention to the caps, they may be “false”) - a one-and-a-half liter bottle costs LE 1-4.

At the entrance of the Valley of the Kings they price water for 6 LE - you'd better take your water there (Born's remark)

• Don’t miss the biscuits (especially if you are someone who is devoted to sweets) - it remains fresh for days so you can pack it in for longer trips.

• Coffee and tea: Adventurers with sensitive stomach had better be very careful with the coffee and tea available on the street. The hygienic circumstances obviously leave much to be desired. Born tasted their tea! It tastes fabulous! In hotels and cafeterias, the Turkish coffee is worth tasting it.

• Carcade - this is a kind of tea, which is made of the flower hibiscus. Some like it hot especially if it is hot - but it is excellent refreshment with ice-cubes too.

• ESzAH’s favourite: Sahlab: hot milk + coconut milk with coco filings and raisin - sounds good? (Available in most of the local “pubs”)

• McD, KentuckyFreud, BurgerKing you can find only in the largest cities but Coke, Fanta, Sprite are widely available.

...and often cheaper than water! (Born's remark)

• In Medinet Habu, just in front of the temple of His Royal Highness Rameses III there is a small restaurant where you can have a terrific salad and buy turban-scarf for an advantageous price.