天堂與地獄之旅 (3) - 19天自由行 自駕遊埃及和阿布扎比/杜拜 (Important things for drivers)

Travel period : 7 Nov 2017 to 25 Nov 2017, total 19 days

Hong Kong > (flight duration 9.5 hours)  Abu Dhabi (4 hours behind HKT) > (flight duration 4.1 hours) Cairo (6 hours behind HKT)
Plane (1N) > Cairo (1N) > Bahariya Oasis White Desert (1N) > Cairo (3N) > Car Crashed in Asyut - delayed 12 hours - Highway 75 (1N) > Luxor (1N) > Aswan (1N) > Abu Simbel (1N) > Luxor (1N) > Hurghada (3N) > Cairo
Cairo > Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi (3N) > Dubai > Abu Dhabi 
Abu Dhabi > Hong Kong
Plane (1N)

Exchange Rate

• USD1 = HKD7.95 (百年找換)
• USD1 = EGP17.6 (Bank in Cairo)[approx. EGP1 = HKD0.45]
• USD1 = AED3.59 (Travelex)+ service charge [approx. AED1 = HKD2.28]

Important things for drivers in Egypt

• No Left-wheel driving experience : serious safety concerns
• Left-wheel driving experience : real challenge
• Google map under estimates driving time by 20%
• Car Rental : Europcar - in case of any damages cost USD300 + USD100 lost car license (Cairo branch) or USD350 + USD50 lost car license (Hurghada branch)
• Other blog mentioned rental GPS did not work, we used google GPS and sometimes offline and time lag
• Four cars on two lanes, horns every 15 seconds, seldom indicator lights were used by local drivers
• In some area, No lanes on the road; Everything included truck, bicycle, camel, horse carriage, bus, human, motor-cycle, three-wheel car are on the same road
• Bus Stop on overpass (speed around 80km); passengers cross over the bridge without traffic facilities

• Road Hump : same color as the road; Hump are big and wide, so car should cross over less than 10km
• No gas-station within 10km around Cairo airport
• Suburb without road lamp post
• Windshield of our car was cracked on next morning in an open top parking space

Important things for drivers in Abu Dhabi

• Rental fee for 3 days is AED270 and insurance is AED180
• Reserved a Nissan compact car (Tiida 1.6) and got a free upgrade to a Nissan standard car (ALTIMA 2.5S) after we rejected a non-free upgrade offer
• Easy to see six lanes on the road
• Multiple road junctions in a row within 1 minute

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