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Alexandria, done the right way...

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Roman Amphitheater The Pillar of Pompey The New Library of Alexandria Prior to arriving in Cairo, my friend and I had concocted a remarkably ambitious plan for our third day that would have us taking a 9 hour night train to Luxor, seeing everything in approximately 12 hours and then taking a ride across the desert to Hurghada to catch our flight the following afternoon. Heat, exhaustion and the realities of Egypt all collided to persuade to us to reconsider. Instead, we happily accepted the suggestion of Mohammed, the night manager at our hostel and now, our travel coordinator and opted to do a much more civilized 2-3 hour day trip to the ancient capital city of Alexandria. The day started off as was now the norm. Tusin, our driver dropped us off at an ancient Roman ampitheater, we bought the tickets and then lacking a tour group to shadow, found some Americans with a Lonely Planet guidebook we could borrow to try to discern what we were looking at, all the while avoiding