Our Food in Egypt

One of my favorites is yellow custard

Our hotel with gate and wall

We love to travel. One of the worst things about travel is the food. When at home we are on a diet - Lulu makes great meals - and I lose weight. When we travel - there is so much food usually involved in the deal - and this human vacuum cleaner has no will power. He simply must get his money's worth. 

On the trip to Egypt - most of our meals were included in the travel package. In one case the hotel packed us a hamper to keep us on schedule. 

We stayed at the Steigenburger Hotel on the main square in Cairo. We had breakfast there every day and twice we had our evening meal there. There was such a large variety of food - and I just could not leave every morning without the full monty. On the streets there was also plenty of American chains. During our touring - around lunch our van always pulled into a nice hotel - and a meal was waiting for us. 

I am not a food tourist. I am not a food snob. I like simple stuff - Pennsylvania Dutch (German) food as always as acceptable as cash. Meat and potatoes - beef - chicken - ham - bacon - sausage are favorites. Please leave out anything with the word fish anywhere near my nose. I wish I ate fish - but can't get the smell past this big nose. Fishing would be like - catching steaks - and I would have all the equipment. 

After breakfast - it would be into our waiting van - our guide and driver would greet us at the door. As you can see our hotel was fenced and gated. Egypt had a period of unrest - from car bombs - so our hotel had its own detectors - detectives - sniffing dogs. Lulu had given the guide a list of things we wanted to see - he organized them - included the lunches. We even had supper the second night on a dinner cruise on the Nile River. 

Here are some pictures - and this was just breakfast. It was in the deal. Our whole 5 days in Egypt package included hotel- airport transfers - guide - van - driver - admission - dinner cruise - meals - $1100. It was highly rated on Trip Advisor. 

Our guide - driver - van
pyramids

Eggs to order

Vegetable

Lulu an nth suppler entres

Our flat iron hotel pointed at
the Egypt Museum 

Our three bags at the last breakfast
before going to the airport

The bags at the airport -
Sahid our driver 

Egypt costumes at airport