General Information

Passport and Immigration (Visa Extensions)

For longer stays in Egypt should let you extend your visa.
A tourist visa is valid for 3 weeks
You need a 2 copy of your passport and 2 pass photo's for the visa.
cost about 95 LE
you have to be there before 14.00 and can pick it up the next
And it is valid for 2 or 6 months if you want to stay longer you have to leave the country first (even for one day)then you can ask for an other visa for 6 month again.
Sharia an-Nasr, Ad-Dahar, Hurghada, Egypt
No phone +20 122/3463203
Passport and Immigration Office opened:
Saturday to Thursday - 8: 00-14: 00

Openingtimes Egyptian museum

dayly open:
09: 00-7: 12:00
09: 00-5: 12:00 during Ramadan
TICKET COST:
General Admission: Egyptian LE 4 (LE 2 students)
Foreign: 60 LE (LE 30 students)
Royal Mummies Room: Egyptian: 10 LE (LE 5 students) Foreign LE 100 (LE 50 students

Openings Piramides van Gizeh
Before you go:
The Pyramids of Giza

opening hours from 8:00 -17: 00
Winter hours are 8: 00- 16:30
Entry prices

Giza Pyramids 80 LE

to inside the Great Pyramid 200 LE

Entry to inside the 2nd or the 3rd Pyramid 40 LE

Entry to the Solar Boat Museum at Giza Pyramids 60

Pyramids Sound and Light Show 100LE

Egyptian Museum 75LE

Mummies Room at the Egyptian Museum 100 LE

Saqqara 80 LE

Memphis 40 LE

Dahshur 40 LE

Coptic Cairo (Hanging Church-St.Sergius and Bacchus Church-Synagogue of Ben Ezra) Free

Cave Church Free

Coptic Museum 60 LE

Citadel of Saladin 60 LE

Sultan Hassan Madrassa and Refaai Mosque (Islamic Cairo) 40 LE

Gayer Anderson Museum 35LE

Azhar Park 10 LE

The best time to go to the pyramids is on thursday, in the morning between 8:00 and 1200 - or 15: 00-17: 00. If you wish to enter the Great Pyramid, there is an additional ticket for this costing you 200 LE.You will find the cash for the entrance of the Great Pyramid at the front of the north-eastern side of the Pyramid.Sometimes is very difficult to get this ticket, the amount is limited to a certain number visitors.They only sell 300 tickets daily, and they are distributed morning afternoon.They sell 150 at 8.00, and then, precisely in 1300, the other 150.If you want to go in Khafre's Pyramid, you should get an extra ticket - ..As for Menkaure's Pyramid, it is now closed for restoration. The pyramids are open on a rotating basis, usually it would take for a year, so that the restoration can done.If you ride a camel or horse to get the best solution for this are the stables at the foot of the Pyramids plateau, it's cheap and safe.In to get rid of the vendors, just say "No, thank you!" or "La Shukran" and they will leave Believe it or not, it works.As for street vendors Do not say the word "Emshi", like many of the guides will advise you, it just means getting lost, and you do not want to offend anyone in there, after all they are just trying to make a living.Here are some useful Arabic words for youTip: If you do not want to pay the extra ticket for one of the above pyramids, and still want always similar experience of being in to have one. Go into the east side of the Great Pyramid and you'll find three subsidiaries smaller pyramids (one was for Khufu's daughter, one for the wife of Khufu and the third for Khufu's mother) .Two of these pyramids (his wife and his mother) be open for visitors, and get no extra cost in.All you have to do is show your ticket to the site guard and you will! If you ever feel like you need to go to the toilet while you carry out your visit, then the best place to go is to the boat museum which is located in front of the southern side of the Great Pyramid. Tell the people at the entrance that you only use the toilet and they let you in.

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The Egyptian pound

Also called LE
Has a daily Excange rate dollar and the euro.
about the Egyptian pound
0.25 piastres
0.50 piastres
1 and Le = 1 pound = 1 Guiney
half a pound or 50 piaster is 0.50 LE

(Arabic: nouse = half)
A quarter so) 0.25 LE
(In Arabic quater = Roba)