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Identifier: egyptsdnhand00karl (find matches)
Title: Egypt and the Sûdân; handbook for travellers
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Subjects: Egypt -- Guidebooks Sudan -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker New York, C. Scribner's sons (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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(p. 147), in the Necropolis ofSakkara. For luncheon and a visit to tlie Serapeum (p. 147) and theTombs of Ti and Ptahhotep fpp. 149, 163) 4 hrs. should be allowed; andpossibly time may be found for the inspection of the Onnos Pyramid (p. 165)and the Persian Tombs (p. 166) or for the Tomb of Merertika (p. 169) and theStreet of Tombs (p. 162). For returning to the station of Bedrashein I/z hr.more should be reckoned. — A highly attractive return may be made bythe route already described via Abusir to the Mena House Hotel (2V2 hrs.;bargain beforehand with the donkey-driver at Bedrashein; thence to theMena House Hotel donkey 20, camel 25-50, desert-carr. 80-100 pias.), whencewe take the tramway to Cairo. Those who confine themselves to theNecropolis of Sakkara may make the excursion from the Mena House Hotelvia At)usir (donkey 20, camel 30, desert-carr. 80 pias.). — For the routeto Sakkara via Helwan. see p. 170. — Comp. The Tombs of Sakkara, byA. A. Quibell (Cair.i, 1911; 5 piaa.).
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%: 1 .-a^ III-Jt .5 ^ .?§ MEMPHIS. 7. Route. 143 The trains start lioiu the Central Station (p.3!i). The railwaycrosses the Nile beyond Bul&k (p. 78), passes (i^ji M.) Emhdbeh(p. 79; tramway to Cairo, see p. 38, No. 6), a district-capital wit)\3459 inliab., and makes a wide curve to (6 M.) Bfddk ed-Dakrur, ona canal. To the right appear the Pyramids of Gizeh; to the left areformatory for boys and p:irl3. We cross the road to the Pyramids.— At(8V2 M-l Oheh (p. 80) we see Old Cairo (p. JOB) on the left,above wliich rises the long ridge of the Mokattani and to the S. theGebel Tura (p. 170). To the right, beyond (11V2 M-) Abun-Nomros,rise tlie hills of the Libyan desert with the sun-temple of Abu Gurab(p. 140), the Pyramids of Abusir, and the Step Pyramid I p. 146).Fine groves of palms. 14 M. Tammuh; 171/0 M. El-HawQmdlyeh(Hawarndia), witli a large sugar-factory. To the left, at the foot ofthe Gebel Tura, lies Helwan (p. 167). At (^201/2 M.l Bedrashein (Badrechtin) visitors bound f

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