Africa Vacation

Have you watched Transformers 2: Revenge of The Fallen? The final battle there took place in one of the most exotic landmark in the world, The Great Pyramid of Giza in Cairo, Egypt. Giza Pyramid is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that survives substantially intact. The Great Pyramid was the tallest man-made structure in the world for over 3,800 years. Originally the Great Pyramid was covered by casing stones that formed a smooth outer surface, and what is seen today is the underlying core structure.

When you travel to Giza, you’ll also find The Great Sphinx, the guardian of the temple. This is a statue of a reclining lion with a human head that stands on the Giza Plateau and it’s the largest monolith statue in the world. Use Car Hire Cairo Airport and drive your way to visit one of seven wonders of the world.

Based on Greek tradition, sphinx is a mythical creature with lion’s body and human head. The difference is Egyptian sphinx take the form of male, while Greek’s has the face of a woman. This creature is basically a guardian, which loves to give a hard riddle to traveler who wants to pass, thus came the legend “The Riddle of the Sphinx”.

Sphinx is a must visited place when you travel to Egypt, and don’t worry, I don’t think that he’ll give you any riddle….

Do you like to travel to sea? Beside sunbathing and surfing there is another interesting stuff to do when you’re visiting the ocean. Scuba diving. It’s very nice to see a diversity of underwater population. Now, we’re gonna take you to the best spot of scuba diving in the world, The Red Sea in Egypt.

Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean. Although this sea is very large, it location is span between Africa (Egypt, Sudan) and Asia (Saudi Arabia, Yemen), you’ll find the best place to dive is in the Egyptian part. Car Hire Egypt will help you explore more options in diving packages.

Why The Red Sea?

Okay by why, I didn’t mean the name (no, the water color is not red), but why choose to have a vacation in Red Sea? Well, Red Sea have extensive shallow shelves, which make it perfect for diving. Also because it’s located in Middle East area, the water is quite warm. And the most important thing, the sea is the habitat of over 1,000 invertebrate species, and 200 soft and hard corals, which %10 of these are found nowhere else.

Best Spot in The Red Sea

SS Thistlegorm, a shipwreck site. This ship was a British armed Merchant Navy ship built in 1940. She was sunk on 6 October 1941 near Ras Muhammad in the Red Sea.

Dolphin Reef, is a horseshoe-shaped reef found in the Red Sea. It lies in open water to the northeast of Ras Banas. Many species of fish can be found in the area. Angelfish, Butterflyfish, Cuttlefish, bluespotted and blackspotted stingrays are common. Dolphin, of course, spotted regularly in this area.

Marsa Alam, is a town in south-eastern Egypt, on the west coast of the Red Sea. If you’re looking for a more bold adventure you should dive in here. Sightings of spinner dolphins, dugongs and hammerhead sharks are a frequent occurrence for those who venture into its waters.

Other interesting spot and town to visit would be Hurghada, Dahab, Sharm El Sheikh, and Nuweiba. If you want to venture more to less known site, you can go to Sanganeb, Abington, Angarosh and Shaab Rumi in Sudan.

How Much Money?

Assuming you’re already in Egypt (plane ticket will cost you much, the price is various, depends on your location), the tourism site won’t empty your pocket, because every price rather reasonable. For a snorkelling tour (equipment included) you’ll spend around $ 12 – $ 25. While the hotel price is about the same as any other vacation site in the world, you’ll get a nice place with about $ 100/night.

Underawter The Red Sea

If you’re a US citizen and have a lot of money, I suggest you to come to the nearest travel agency and ask about Egypt tour. It will cost around $ 3000-$ 5000 for about 2 weeks tour. It includes diving, Nile cruise, Pyramid tour, guide, visa, and meal.

What’s better than see beautiful woman in a beautiful place? That’s why we have celebrity vacation category in this blog. For this time beautiful actress, we present you Cica Zhou Weitong, who spent some time at the great pyramid in Egypt for photo session.

Cica Zhou Weitong is a famous Chinese model and former professional athlete. She loves being photographed in various exotic places worldwide, including in Egypt. Besides posing in pyramid, Zhou Weitong also try to wear Egyptian traditional clothing, Galabeya. She also posed with a camel, donkey, and the local citizen, which results in beautiful and humane pictures.

If you want to know more about this Chinese celebrity, please visit Sexy Cica Zhou Weitong page.

Cape Town is not only the most popular international tourist destination in South Africa, but also one of Africa’s most popular international tourist destinations. This is due to its good climate, natural setting, and well-developed infrastructure.

The most famous landmark in Cape Town would be the Table Mountain. It’s a flat-topped mountain forming a prominent landmark overlooking the city of Cape Town, with many visitors using the cableway or hiking to the top.

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Still with the theme of 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, after previous host Cape Town, now let’s check about Port Elizabeth. This city is one of the largest cities in South Africa, and located in Eastern Cape Province, 770 km east of Cape Town.

As a city that situated in the point of an island, beaches become the main tourist attraction. Port Elizabeth has a total 40 km length of a very clean sandy beaches. The most famous spot including The Blue Flag beach, St. Georges beach, and Humewood beach.

As a harbor city, Port Elizabeth is known as the center of water-sports throughout South Africa. Tourist can tries every kind of water sports here, such as yachting, wind surfing, jet ski, fishing, kite boarding, and diving.

One of the clean beaches of Port Elizabeth

This city has a very nice subtropical climate, makes travelers enjoy the beach even more. On the peak of cool season in June-July, the average temperatures still pretty comfortable span between 9 – 20 °C (48 – 68 °F).

Besides the weather, what make Port Elizabeth very comfortable are low crime rate and low traffic. It used to called as 10-minute city (get anywhere in 10 minutes), but things have changed and it now becomes 20 minute city. Still nice enough I think.

The city’s buildings are a physical timeline of the architectural changes dating as far back as the 19th century. The Opera House is a good example of Victorian architecture and is still in use and the city also has the richest collection of Art Nouveau buildings in South Africa.

Tourist attractions inside the city include the gardens at St George’s Park, the King George VI Art Gallery, Donkin Heritage Trail, the museum and oceanography room at Humewood, and the new Boardwalk waterfront complex.

While for the World Cup itself, this city was built Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium with approx. budget of US$ 270 million. The stadium is located in the North End Lake, at the heart of the city, and will host 8 matches during the tournament, including one quarterfinal match and the 3rd/4th playoff match.

The five-tier Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium