comfortable and fast train between Cairo and Alexandria is one of the best means of transportation we have experienced during the trip. It goes like the wind through the Nile Delta. Everything is green, everything is grown. The arrival in Alexandria is impressive. After a succession of fields is a row of buildings that mark the beginning of the city. In 20m, moving from one crop has a total planning. A 
RRIV in Alexandria, it's like to Marseille. The buildings are plush. The city is much more "bourgeois" as Cairo. There are modern shops all along the streets, telephony, photography, leather, clothes, shoes, bags, restaurants ... It's like being in a commecial center, and besides, we never managed to get their bearings in this maze of shopping streets. 
were lunching with Mohamed Ahmed, a restaurant, always crowded, which serves a fantastic ful, served with falafel, lettuce, beets, turnips and vinegar humus. It's a full stomach and taste buds delighted that finally we see the Mediterranean Sea. Drole d'impression that the trip is over, even if the return is going to take a few weeks. You sit on the corniche, watching the blue sea. The beach is beautiful, even if we regret it a bit so closely along with a 2x5 way that makes a devil's Rafuse. A week after it was along the odd on for 8km rejoindreun funny bridge stretched over a small bay with a beach. The place is strange, and you wonder who funded this work which allows for not only making a detour of 400m along the coast!
Passing the opera, we discover that we have the chance to be present sle day of the musical Toutankamon. It is a festival to go that night. We took seats in the balcony, nearly full axis, and there will be orchestra and ballet. But on our arrival, we become disillusioned very quickly. The bouncer stopped us agrressif a "formal dress", which means that our clothes of backpackers are not adapted. Thank you for not having warned in purchasing tickets. It has yet Hopefully, as an elegant old gentleman (whom we learn that shortly after ets one of the businessmen most important of Alexandria) ensures that we can get anyway. We are treated like pariahs. When we brought the show has already started, not to shock the bourgeois in their Sunday best, and it puts us in an empty box, completemetn eccentric, hence we do not see the whole scene. The 
e worst part is that in fact the show is pitiful. There are many ballet and orchestra, but the background music is a basic rock amp in too strong. The choreographies are caricatures of the Egypt of the pharaohs, with poses profile no end. The scenario is distressing, corny jokes. The musicians of the orchestra so bored they sometimes miss their time, which does not even bother the conductor, who also does this affect his pay for that. We realize how ridiculous the situation is with this bourgeoisie was wildly applauding a show of bad taste. This is the official release, where everyone is dressed very chic in the club closes, who wants aristocratic but marvel at the sub-Disney. It was part intermission, no regrets. 
More rewarding has been the visit of the great library of Alexandria. The site is magnificent, the corniche along the waterfront The main building is a plan circular and largely surrounded by water. On the esplanade, a black ball RIBBED contains the planetarium. Symbolically, it is the earth orbiting the sun. As Magali was a topic for his blog pro, we could really enjoy the place. First, a guided tour just for us, then we met the head of the library itself, and the service Francophonie. The museums in the basement are quite beautiful, but what is fantastic is the reading room as big as a train station. The natural lighting is designed so that sunlight never reaches the books directly. There are 7 different levels, of which 
ecoupent space in a human-sized portions. The place gives really want to read and study. We spend the day, it is almost 16h when we finished the interviews and we moved to the cafeteria, enjoy salads, cheese and tea! You are told that it seems to return to France! It returns the same day to take pictures from outside with a beautiful light. 
On Saturday, we would like to leave in the morning, but there are only two trains in Ismailia, one at 4:30 (more than second class PLCE), and one 16h. That means we have a destination at night, or Internet is down. So we do not hear from our friend Foad, meets on the boat between Sudan and Egypt, which has invited us to visit him. It is expected to call it the next morning. 
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