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Cairo is a the capital of Egypt. It is a very large and constantly congested city.

When the Academy of Free Travel established a hitchhiking base in Cairo in Winter 2008/09, they did not hitchhike from the city itself, as it is too sprawling. Equipped with a schedule of cheap trains (for which one must go directly to the train, for ticket booths will not sell to foreigners), they traveled by rail to nearby locales and hitched from there.


East to Sinai, Taba, Israel

It is best to get to the Suez tunnel under the canal, and hitchhike from there. You can take a service taxi to Suez from the depot next to Ramsis train station in cairo (8 EGP), and ask to be dropped off in the junction where you can turn to Sinai, around 10km before Suez. All the traffic headed to Sinai from Cairo has to pass here.

You can also go to the small train station next to the Ain Shams metro station in Cairo, take a morning train to Suez. One can try to hitch east from there. The Cairo-Suez train runs every three hours and costs about 5 Egyptian pounds.

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