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This gallery has photographs of the main sites North of Cairo, usually visited privately as not part of most Egyptian tours, and includes Heliopolis, Tell Basta near Zagazig and Tanis near the north coast of Egypt
Alexandria Eastern Harbour eg9613923jhp Egypt Alexandria floral park Eastern Harbour entrance El Selselah seafront modern city on the Mediterranean coast is no longer reminiscent of the ancient city from Pharaonic times and little of that ancient time remains. This photo is of modern seafront municpal agrdens near the Sea Bride Sculpture taken from the roadside as my taxi drove around the City on a day trip. Taken in 1996 it preceded the modern Library of Bibliotheca Alexandrina by 8 years, the original ancient library no longer exists. A few isolated ancient sites can be visited with some Greco-Roman ruins and archaeology. The City has a distinctly European rather than Egyptian feel to it; it is sometimes offered as a day trip on a Cairo package but is seldom part of the main Nile packages. I hired my own taxi and the driver was sufficiently knowledgeable to take me to the main ‘ancient’ sites I could manage in a few hours. Keywords: Egypt: Egyptian, Africa, northern, Delta, ancient, Alexandria, city, coast, Mediterranean, European, El Selselah, square, Aselsela, style, sea, eastern, harbour, entrance, promenade, park, gardens, street, scene, sculpture, modern, bride, mermaid, street, roadside, seafront, passing, view, sunshine, blue, sky, bright, colours, colourful, landscape, September, 1996, 35mm, slide, film, Fuji, RDP2, 100asa, colour, scanned, scan, Nikon, FM2, Nikkor, 28mm f2.8
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Alexandria Eastern Harbour eg9613923jhp
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Egypt Alexandria floral park Eastern Harbour entrance El Selselah seafront

modern city on the Mediterranean coast is no longer reminiscent of the ancient city from Pharaonic times and little of that ancient time remains. This photo is of modern seafront municpal agrdens near the Sea Bride Sculpture taken from the roadside as my taxi drove around the City on a day trip. Taken in 1996 it preceded the modern Library of Bibliotheca Alexandrina by 8 years, the original ancient library no longer exists. A few isolated ancient sites can be visited with some Greco-Roman ruins and archaeology. The City has a distinctly European rather than Egyptian feel to it; it is sometimes offered as a day trip on a Cairo package but is seldom part of the main Nile packages. I hired my own taxi and the driver was sufficiently knowledgeable to take me to the main ‘ancient’ sites I could manage in a few hours.
Keywords: Egypt: Egyptian, Africa, northern, Delta, ancient, Alexandria, city, coast, Mediterranean, European, El Selselah, square, Aselsela, style, sea, eastern, harbour, entrance, promenade, park, gardens, street, scene, sculpture, modern, bride, mermaid, street, roadside, seafront, passing, view, sunshine, blue, sky, bright, colours, colourful, landscape, September, 1996, 35mm, slide, film, Fuji, RDP2, 100asa, colour, scanned, scan, Nikon, FM2, Nikkor, 28mm f2.8