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Our tour guide brought us to a restaurant called Africa for lunch. It looked like a big restaurant and we had to go two floors up, taking the stairs. I noticed artwork on the walls and on the ceiling near the stairs. I couldn’t figure out what was on the ceiling on the main floor near the entrance door, but it looked like a replica of mashed bread or possibly rough mountains.

The 3rd floor was huge. There were many people eating and waiters running around to serve them. There were long rows of tables and chairs to allow tour groups to sit together. It looked like tourists were the main customers, brought over by tour guides to this hotel no doubt.

The 3rd floor was an open-air situation with a roof made of tin and canvas. The best part was the view of the Nile and the street down below. It didn’t feel hot due to the wind blowing through.

We ordered a mixture of items and shared everything. There was soup in clay bowls, bread, vegetables, kebab, grilled chicken, fried eggplant, regular rice, fried rice, and much more. Whatever I tried tasted too delicious and I wanted to eat more and more. I also tried Egyptian-bottled Coke and that tasted good too.

They refilled items without extra charges. It was possibly one of my best Egyptian food experiences. The service was excellent as well.

One of my tour mates found a hidden menu somehow and we found out that they had two separate menus: one for tourists and one for locals. Yes, the tourist menu had much higher prices than the local. It was understandable that they wanted more money off tourists and they possibly pay our tour company a commission for bringing us here, but some of our tour mates got mad upon finding these overpriced menus for us. Still, I found it cheaper than other Egyptian restaurants we had tried.

From here we would walk to the dock to take a boat across the Nile and head towards Hurghada - a beach resort town along Egypt’s Red Sea coast.