Thanks
Emily
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EP
If it is for holiday, know that as an American you won't be VERY free to come and go in El Minya at will. You will have a police escort with you at all times. This may limit the activities you will be allowed to do. I don't know if you had considered that already or not, but it should be a consideration if you are planning to spend a lot of time there.
If it were me, I'd stay in Cairo and take side trips there on the train.
Like Debbie says what are you going there for. Is it to visit Tel el Amarna and Beni Hassan? That is what I did and they are fabulous but I only needed to stay there the one night to do that. So you can base yourself in Cairo or Luxor and visit there.
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Jane Akshar UK Co-owner of www.flatsinluxor.co.uk Appartments and Tours in Luxor
Cheers
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Originally posted by sweetjulia:
I am curious Debbie and Akshar,why you would need a police escort in Minya, if you are American or in my case Canadian.I have a friend that attends University there and he never mentioned this to me. Thanks for your replies.Salaam.Sincerely Julia
You don't [u]need[/u] a police escort you get given one. All along the roads there are checkpoints and if you are a foreigner in a car then you can not travel as and when you will. You have to go in police convoys. These leave the major towns at set times and are used by everyone.
Inside a town then there is no problem.
It is all because they are paranoid about a foreigner being hurt in Egypt and the damage to the economy.
Ads soemone married to an Egyptian I did find recently that production of my marriage papers saved me from this hassle. So that's one solution lol
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Jane Akshar UK Co-owner of www.flatsinluxor.co.uk Appartments and Tours in Luxor
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Originally posted by akshar:
Inside a town then there is no problem.
I beg an exception to this statement. Inside Minya or Assuit, if you are staying at a hotel, you will also have police guards planted in reception at your hotel. You will be followed if/when you leave the hotel. It can be very annoying.
If your friend is Canadian and it isn't happening to her, I would guess they aren't as concerned about Canadians. You are lucky.
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Originally posted by sweetjulia:
Thanks for the information ladies My friend is Egyptian male not Canadian female.
Salaam
Well of course, if he is a male Egyptian he wouldn't mention to you the problems of being a foreigner in Minya. Why would he? He probably is oblivious to the fact that it even happens. LOL
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Originally posted by Debbie:
I beg an exception to this statement. Inside Minya or Assuit, if you are staying at a hotel, you will also have police guards planted in reception at your hotel. You will be followed if/when you leave the hotel. It can be very annoying.
They didn't do that to me when I stayed there. Maybe it is being British and not American, who knows. There never seesm to be any consistancy lol. Mahmoud and I weren't married then so it isn't to do with that.
I loved walking along the Corniche there in the early evening and enjoying the sunset without loads of touts pestering me.
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Jane Akshar UK Co-owner of www.flatsinluxor.co.uk Appartments and Tours in Luxor
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Originally posted by akshar:
I loved walking along the Corniche there in the early evening and enjoying the sunset without loads of touts pestering me.
I remember thinking that this could have been really nice if I hadn't been so bothered to out-fox or out-run the police.