Good morning guys today this video is going to be about exploring Alexandria actually
I have no plans to go to Alexandria on this day. I was planning to make it a specific trip, but
About 10 minutes after I woke up a friend of mine asked if I wanted to go with to
Alexandria for a day trip, and I was not ready at all I had pretty much just woken up, but I just said okay
Let's go
Actually to be honest for some reason in this video my memory card in my camera
I decided to stop working, and I don't know really what happened, but a lot of the files ended up getting corrupted
And I wasn't able to use a lot of the footage that I took which is a shame
So that's why I'm kind of going to be talking more in this video and of course now as I'm filming the video
the people above me in this building have decided to do all of this construction and
Yep, there. They are now, but the video is gonna happen
Somehow a lot of people had described Alexandria to me as kind of the Paris of Egypt and as being very
European I can definitely see why they say that the architecture is really beautiful kind of more
Graceful from what people had described to me
I was expecting Alexandria to kind of be this peaceful seaside city however
It was very very crowded crazy
Insane traffic with people running back and forth against the roads and cars and honking the first place that I went in
Alexandria was the catacombs and I was kind of just dropped off outside, and I went in I wasn't sure what to do
There's kind of just this area with a lot of
broken pieces of statues and rocks and not really any signs telling you where to go or that there's this whole
System right beneath you that you need to go see so I was just kind of wandering around like
What what even is this?
But then thankfully I found my way
Over to this spiral stone staircase so you wander down the staircase you get to the catacombs and they are this enormous
system of just graves and crypts
There's all these different little rooms and passageways and it's basically like a dark creepy maze down there
I
Did not even expect this place to be so cool. You can just wander around
This place is huge
It just goes on and on and there's all these mazes of stone
Some of the doors are really narrow some of them have holes in the floor that you're just walking over
And they look like they'd be done so deep
The catacombs were built around the 2nd to 4th centuries the perfect time period for you to kind of witness the
intermingling of
Egyptian Greek and Roman culture art by far the most
Beautiful area of the catacomb is kind of this
Part where there's some stairs leading down and kind of this hall that opens up
Beautiful beautiful art and statues on the walls, and it's just amazing sadly though
It's flooded people can't really easily walk in anymore because it's partially underwater of course though
I wasn't gonna let that stop me so I took off my shoes and waded through the water
And wow I'm so glad that I did because the art in that little room was by far the most beautiful
Area of the catacombs it was just amazing
The next place in Alexandria that I went was the Citadel and
Wow this place once we walked up to it. I just could not believe my eyes this did not even look real
This place is amazing it's huge, and there's so many places to wander around this actually leads to a view of the sea
Okay, I'm genuinely lost now everything looks the same a
Dead end I
Just love places like this and Mises. It was just such intrigue to them cannot believe how huge this place is
Every single door that I'm walking by
And there's a lot is
another room another room in another hallway and
Because there's so many what's interesting about the Citadel is it was built right on top of the original?
Location of the lighthouse at Alexandria, and it was built starting in
1477 so this is a very old structure even though I has been remodeled and reconstructed a bit over the years
I genuinely got lost in here because it is so massive there was a woman
that was working in there, and I was kind of using her as a
Marking point like okay. I walked past her a minute ago
And now I need to turn here then I realize maybe she's moving
I don't know if she's moving or staying in the same place. This is helping you're not yeah
I got really lost in there and then right outside the Citadel is this
Beautiful view of the sea and the ocean and the water is surprisingly blue. It's just beautiful
Now I am walking underneath the Citadel in this huge, hallway
There's no one here this place is enormous really actually impossible to see all
Gonna go further
Walking on the walls I suppose that's around the Citadel and this is just amazing because
you have a view of the gorgeous Citadel you have the view of the ocean this way and then all of
Alexandria is kind of stretched out in a circle around the Citadel
Okay leaving the Citadel now this place is awesome. Be sure to visit if you come to Alexandria
So now we're going somewhere else. I don't know where yet
I
Asked a taxi driver to take me somewhere for lunch, and he asked do you want?
Tourist food or local food and of course. I said local food. It was pretty cool
He led me down
this really
interesting
Actually kind of dark and crowded street to this place where they were selling I didn't even know all this types of fish and seafood
about this huge meal or ate
The third highlight of my trip to
Alexandria was something that I was really really looking forward to which was going to the new Library of Alexandria as you right now
The original Library of Alexandria was one of the wonders of the ancient world and as a huge enormous
Reader and book nerd I am still sad when I think about it being destroyed
So I don't want to get onto this topic however the new Library of Alexandria is very modern
It was built in 2002 as soon as I walked inside. I was just amazed and very impressed by the
Architecture in there it is extremely modern
A very very modern architecture in here just now wandering and looking at all of the books
And then we drove back to Cairo and
Yeah, that was my time in Alexandria the Citadel in the catacombs especially were just so incredible just two mazes
Basically that we're very different from each other
and I just love mazes because you get to explore and you're not really sure what's around the next corner and
Just all of this history and all so different from other places in Egypt because these things were not ancient Egyptian
They're a bit later. Yeah. I really enjoyed my time in Alexandria as always
Thank you guys so much for watching, and I will see you next time in another Egypt video of coming up very very soon
Bye