On Thursday, I took care of my visa since it was more than 25 days I was in Egypt and I got a 1 month automatic visa when I arrived on the 2nd.

I went to the Magoma. It is huge building housing around 20 000 state employees that is located close to my hotel downtown on Al-Tahrir square (very close from the Egyptian museum). It went better than I hoped.

I had some trouble finding the right window spending some time in the wrong line first. But I finally made it to the right place. It is window 12, 13 or 14 on the second floor. The information in English over these windows is not helping.

Buying the necessary EGP11.10 in stamps was a bit more chaotic since Egyptian people are even less respectful of lines than French people and one has to police a bit if he does not want to get trampled. I had Karim demonstrating the first day I was in Cairo when we bought my train ticket to Aswan so I knew it was not just because I am a foreigner.

Anyway, I finally got my stamps, filled the application, stapled a picture and submit the paper alongside my passport.

I got my passport back 1 hour later at window 38 with a new visa valid until October 1st! Well, I had asked for 1 month, they gave me 6. And all for the great price of EGP11.

I thought this made my day and the rest of it was spent taking it easy and recovering from my trip to Bahareya :).