On Thursday, I took care of my visa since it was more than 25 days I was in Egypt and I\u00c2\u00a0got a 1 month automatic visa when I arrived on the 2nd.<\/p>\n
I went to the Magoma. It is\u00c2\u00a0huge building housing around 20 000 state employees that is located close to my hotel downtown on Al-Tahrir square (very close from the Egyptian museum).\u00c2\u00a0It went better than I hoped.<\/p>\n
I had some trouble finding the right window spending some time in the wrong line first. But I finally made it to the right place. It is window 12, 13 or 14 on the second floor. The information in English over these windows is not helping.<\/p>\n
Buying the necessary EGP11.10 in stamps was a bit more chaotic since Egyptian people\u00c2\u00a0are even less respectful of lines than French people and one has to police a bit if he does not want to get trampled. I had Karim demonstrating the first day I was in Cairo when we bought my train ticket to Aswan so I knew it was not just because I am a foreigner.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I finally got my stamps, filled the application, stapled a picture and submit the paper alongside my passport.<\/p>\n
I got my passport back 1 hour later at window 38 with a new visa valid until October 1st! Well, I had asked for 1 month, they gave me 6. And all\u00c2\u00a0for the great price of EGP11.<\/p>\n
I thought this made\u00c2\u00a0my day and the rest of it was spent taking it easy and recovering from my trip to Bahareya :).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On Thursday, I took care of my visa since it was more than 25 days I was in Egypt and I\u00c2\u00a0got a 1 month automatic visa when I arrived on the 2nd. I went to the Magoma. It is\u00c2\u00a0huge building … Continue reading