Is Egypt Safe To Travel to? | First Thoughts Flying from Germany to Cairo

so one thing when one thing we were a little bit nervous about when we were coming into Egypt [Music] I can't believe it we're here we are in Egypt we've been up for a couple of hours and there's just been like this excitement this entire time I don't know the last time I felt this like excited for a place so this has been a long time coming about five years ago when we graduated University we wanted to go on like an epic world trip we thought it was like a world trip was three week trip three three week trip we went to Singapore the Maldives and Dubai but Dubai wasn't actually the first choice we were actually wanted to go to Egypt it was like something that's been on a bucket list all through high school or through university but when we went to book our tickets we realized that during that time it was like a no-go zone for Australians Australia was recommending people to go there and were like okay let's go to Dubai instead so we did that had an amazing holiday but really felt like like we missed out like we've always wanted go to Egypt and here we are five years later we finally made it I can't like I did I literally can't believe it that's just what I'm gonna be saying the whole time let me try to friends and family will coming to Egypt we kind of had the same reaction as when we told everyone we're going to Israel yeah last year we went to Israel and everyone from my family and friends work they were like you're crazy why are you going to Israel it is one of the most dangerous countries in the world in hindsight looking back on that it's absolutely insane like Israel is an amazing country very safe country we even cross the border into Jordan which was another safe country not safe the entire time had like an amazing trip and now are you later mm-hmm he's right now my cousin is in Tel Aviv sorry Kaylee I'm putting up the Instagram she's in there with her husband and family also my parents the ones who kind of doubted going to Israel I'm sorry mom they've booked a trip and they're going to Israel in a couple of months time so we always want to visit places because it's so unfortunate when you go to such an incredible site and has been ruined by the media like when we were in Petra in Jordan that is one of the wonders of the world and there was 200 people there our guide in Petra was saying that years ago maybe five six years ago it was five thousand people visiting a day we were happy though we kind of felt like we're in the place to ourselves is there a gypped I feel like this kind of has that similar connotations to it and we're really excited to be here and experience it for ourselves and really find out what it's about through our eyes and how we feel when we're here definitely this is just like yeah first thoughts video we are here for 13 days there is so much planned but yeah we're currently in our hotel we've had like three hours sleep because we got a little story to tell you're gonna have to rewind back to Frankfurt [Music] welcome to the French perder for everybody had a moment to myself there was a stressful just a little bit flustered cuz I look so we actually ended up doing public transport because it's like nine euros each to get to the to the airport it was fine except for there's a lot of construction going on in Frankfurt at the moment so we had to do a couple more trains now it's got to get through security at CCS okay all right it's my flight one we're going to Atkins to outline [Music] the possible signs when stopped before living there but will adventure subject welcome to Athens everybody I feel like kind of blacked out of you but time we chatted I just had the worst headache we've made it to Greece but we aren't yet belong we're just catching our connecting flight on the way to each other it seems we see the pyramids like two hours it's happening here we go jumping on a flight to Egypt uh-huh thanks obviously you guys will be ladies and gentlemen welcome to Cairo please give yours it goes faster okay this is no sign has betrayed spoke just arrived to Egypt everybody it is so one thing weird one thing we were a little bit nervous about when we were coming into Egypt and that's because a lot of people have told us stories about the airport and going through immigration and the airport being like this crazy busy place and it's hard to really understand what's going on and what's really cool is we're actually here with a company called on-the-go tours and they do to us through Egypt and one of the things is that they actually organize someone to help you get through the airport so when we jumped off the plane there was someone straightaway standing there with an on the go-to assignment so it looked like he was an airport employee that's kind of where we got the gist of but he was hired by on the go tours so being Australian we can actually organize an EVO so you just go online super simple but we just decided to do it in person it's 25 US dollars each now we jumped into this align to be honest the actual site where you get the visa I didn't really see any major sign saying Bank yeah it looked like a bank but of course our Airport buddy we thought him you just said you jump into this line and then we were waiting there for 5-10 minutes I feel like we didn't move at all he just came up do you have the 50 US dollars for both of us just took it off us walk straight like the front of the line and then said can I have your passports got out in a second and the same thing happened with immigration the lines were so long barely moving and what he did was he collected our passports and then went come with me went through the fast-track way when no one was got a straight through immigration grabbed our bags went straight through bag check which was great and then kind of just took us to our bus yeah and then the bus took us here and I was this like so quick so easy I wouldn't say it to look necessarily quickly landed and then what it would be 100% agree quicker 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we didn't get it to our hotel hence why we might look a little bit tired we didn't get to our hotel until what four am no more a guy's well into our room into our room it was a process and without our airport buddy I feel like that would have taken so much longer so I definitely think if you come into Egypt and you're going on a group tool that's awesome because I'm sure that they'll have airport people picking you up but maybe you should organize what do they call them I'll put the word up here there's a feel like there's a term and you can go online and look for these people but of course we here on a small group tour the company we we are using to go throughout Egypt they organized it for you in the price it was awesome you're not guys please don't charge else we've had like four hours sleep and we decided to sleep instead of go to breakfast hello how you doing I can order a couple of things from you can I please have is it some simple sick sorry ready for this what did you get oh my gosh she's actually perfect okay this time to be for Egypt I want to try one of these so I found out these actually Libyan not necessarily give us all the sources by the way hot sauce mustard mayo and more hot sauce is so good just tastes like a samosa this tastes like me some o yourself lots of hot sauce alrighty guys ready to see your first glimpse of Cairo this is always that moment when you have a really messy hotel room the only snippet we've had as well so far it's so different than anything we've seen before Wow we've come out here so many times I can't believe we're in Egypt it's so different it's very middle-eastern what work around looking around Wow on the other side of the hotel there's the Nile River on the Nile right now and one more thing before we actually leave the hotel and go and explore is I thought I'll show you our hotel room because this is the first night on our tour with on-the-go tours we're doing the King ramasees two hours I think is he interested but this is the hotel that's included in the tour it's nice it's referred to I like this is an amazing hotel we're at the Holiday Inn in Cairo but excuse a mess because we are a little bit lazy today because we're pretty tired but this is our room so I've just been doing just a little bit charging here this is a super comfortable bed I've got a TV you can't see the bathroom in there and then yeah so we have this massive bathroom shower just in there and yeah you can close that if you want we and the pool area this is Nile River like that's how close we are to it just a road separating us oh look what's over there give me RTL well we can actually see them [Music] I see this babe oh my gosh this thinks is small but in the pyramids of massive either Sphinx is small I was looking for something is currently the cold for prayer we guys we've come to the pyramids like a couple of small the Sphinx you know it's like my biggest shot all we need to get good seats Wow okay so we've come down here the sun's just set and we come to the light and sound show so what they do it I guess is they light up the pyramids at night and I do like kind of like a show before it's Disney Egyptian style here's your first look at the pyramids [Music] each side of the base measuring syndrome 10 feet the angle being 52 degrees but time there's a pyramid the light service gurus as Leste is the more national geographic back miss command in I am surgeries like 8:30 meanie okay guys Egypt is just beginning so if you are new around here make sure you can subscribe because the adventures starts tomorrow we're heading to the pyramids we have an overnight sleeper train and there's so much other stuff coming so I hope you enjoy this new Egypt series see you guys next time alright guys we've just arrived at a train station and we awaited that train so we're actually gonna be spending the next two nights living on board one of these feluccas so we're currently looking they're probably the most famous tournament in the this is the tomb of Tutankhamen I think we lasted like 30 minutes was it and then it just gets like a little bit too much because so many people want you to come in their stores [Music].