From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 6:07 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: seeking information and help while visiting Cairo, Egypt
> H-ASIA
> March 16, 2011
>
> Response re: seeking information and help while visiting Cairo
> ************************************************************************
> Ed. note: Because my close friends Jere Bacharach and Barbara Fudge are
> in Cairo most years between December and June--and as they had not joined
> the foreign 'exodus' during the unseating of the Mubarak regime; and
> because Barb has worked from time to time as a travel agent for visitors
> to Egypt, I took the liberty of forwarding Sadan Jha's query in hopes of
> obtaining some useful guidance. I post herewith Barb's answers: FFC
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> From: Barbara Fudge <barbfudge@gmail.com>
>
> On the island of Zamalek (in the Nile) is a pension called the Horus,
> not fancy but decent and in a good neighborhood. If he wants to be in
> town, there is the President Hotel, but the other is cheaper. I assume
> that the workshop will be setting them up in housing in the Fayoum as
> there are few places to stay other than the Auberge.
>
> For Cairo, I recommend he take the new white taxi's with the meter running
> to go wherever he wants. I am happy to organize a guide/driver/car for
> tours or he can ask at the desk of the hotel where he stays in Cairo.
>
> Let me know if I can be of other assistance.
>
> Barb
>
> Barbara Fudge
> <barbfudge@gmail.com>
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