Egypt

This is the most popular country for Russian tourists - tourists . Nowadays it has become even more attractive: Egyptian pound, before the most stable currency in the entire African continent, suddenly collapsed and fell twice. Now = 6.5 pounds (three years ago = 3,5), but the local prices in pounds have not changed, and now all the fun, food and transport is costing a mere penny. For example, travel by bus in Cairo, is 1 p., A kilo of dates or bananas - 10 or even 5 p.
However, Egypt is only for traditional types of recreation. Live in a hotel, ride the bus or train for a civilized foreigners, diving and watching the pyramids are permitted (provided that you pay for everything). But to ask for the night to the locals, ride or hitch in a suburban train (even with a ticket), put up tents on the beach or climb on top of the pyramid is prohibited. A whole army of the guardians of order follows that the tourist does not deviate from the beaten tracks and did not avoid paying pleasures revenue coffers.
For example, travel by train. In Egypt, a very good rail and mass of the train - not only from Cairo to Aswan, but also towards the Libyan border, Suez, Port Said, etc. Often, 20 trains a day stop at any station. And on all these trains, except the three "VIP"-trains, travel of foreigners is prohibited!
Train schedule posted only in Arabic. The police strongly suppress the desire to go to a white man "bichevoze; foreigners tickets for these trains do not sell. Moreover, when trying to buy a train ticket to the cashier immediately seek to pass a foreigner to the police.
output is: waiting for a train, hiding from everyone, where you go, the question: "Mister, where are you going?" - Answer: "I do not know," "have not decided yet," etc. With the approach "bichevoza" get into it and buy a ticket there. This is 1 pound more, but at the box office you will likely fail, and then hand over the cops who try to shove you into the "civilian" train. In such a train journey from Cairo to Aswan (879 km) is in a seated carriage 42 pounds (), and to train local - 11 pounds (or less).
can be late for the "VIP"-train and jump into another. For example, from Cairo to 7.50 (time on station, Giza), the train "VIP", and behind him in 05.08 followed by "whip"-train to Aswan itself. And other "gourmet" trains will not be until the evening, and the cops who want to transplant you to a night train for 12 hours, you can otmazatsya under the pretext that you have sroch-h-chno be in Aswan tonight!
In line Alexandria - Cairo - Aswan is also carefully concealed from foreigners network of trains in the Nile Delta, and also from most Libyan border to the Suez. All schedules are posted on the railway stations, but only in Arabic, and cops and informants at stations every possible venture to an alien from the use of these trains. Buy at the station the train schedule (3 pounds), when asked what it is you, tell me: that as a souvenir. Then decode it on their own or with help of a friend who owns Arabic. Tusuytes not long at stations, come back shortly before the train departure.
the journey on the train 3 classes in Egypt is very cool. You will see different things and goods of all kinds, carried and sold in the train. Each train is accompanied by the police, and you are likely to take custody and will be put on a special place "for the cops." Do not be surprised. Usher, walking on cars, will write you a ticket, or he knocks it on a small cash register. If the fare will be much higher than expected, do not get a ticket and get off the train: it means you hit the "civilian" train for foreigners.