I hesitated to make a dicision where I should go in last two days? I swayed between Alexandria and Farafra depression. I preferred to travel to the latter, but the time was not enough. At last, I had to go to Alexandria because I only had one and half a day. It took me two and half an hours to reach Alexandria from Cairo by train.

Alexandria is the second-largest city in Egypt and a major economic centre, extending about 32 km along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the north central part of the country.

Its low elevation on the Nile delta makes it highly vulnerable to rising sea levels. Alexandria is an important industrial center because of its matural gas and oil pipelines from Suez. Alexandria is also a popular tourist destination.

Alexandria was founded around a small, ancient Egyptian town 332 BC by Alexander the Great, king of Macedon and leader of the Greek League of Corinth, during his conquest of the Achaemenid Empire. It becase an important center of Hellenistic civilization and remained the capital of Ptolemaic Egypt and Romman and Byzantine Egypt for almost 1000 years, until the Muslim conquest of Egypt in AD 641.

The Great Library of Alexandria was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world. The library was part of a larger research institution called the Mouseion, which was dedicated to the Muses, the nine goddesses of the arts.
 

The construction work of Bibliotheca Alexandria began in 1995, after some USD $220 million had been spent, the complex was officially inaugurated on 16 October 2002. The library is trilingual, containing books in classical Arabic, Engligh, and French. In 2010, the library received a donation of 5000,000 books from the National Library of France, which makes the Bibliotheca Alexandria the sixth-largest Francophone library in the world.

Pompey's Pillar is a Roman trimphal column in Alexandria, the largest of its type constructed outside the imperial capitals of Rome and Constantinople. The only known free-standing column in Roman Egypt which was not composed of drums, it is one of the largest ancient monoliths and one of the largest monolithic columns ever erected.

The Catacombes of Kom El Shoqafa is a historical archaeological site in Alexandria and is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages. The necropolis consists of a series of Alexandrian tombs, statues and archaeological objects of the Pharaonic funeral cult with Hellenistic and early Imperial Roman influences.

Hellenistic Alexandria was best known for the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

The Citadel of Qaitbay is a a 15th-century defensive fortress located on the Mediterranean sea coast in Alexandria. 

The citadel formulated an important part of the fortification system of Alexandria in the 15th century AD. After the revolution of 1952 the Egyptian Naval troops turned the building into a Maritime Museum.

There are so many bars, restaurants, and venders along the leisurely coastal shore.

Back to Cairo by trans, transferred to the airport by metro and uber, and left for China.

Be happy to to meet some American guys again. We knew each other on the Nile cruise. They were from American airline company and had been their vacation for two weeks in Egypt.