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I arrived in Egypt on Thursday evening after traveling for 26 hours.  The trip was uneventful and enjoyed spending the four hour layover in the Dubai airport.  The Dubai airport is a state of the art facility.  For the most part, you wouldn't know you weren't in a American airport, the stores and food are mostly brands you would recognize.  The main difference are the men wearing long white robes and a number of local women have their head covered.  There is lots to see and the architecture of the facility is amazing.  It is a great design, when you get off you flight you ride escalators to an upper floor and walk to the exit, you are looking over the waiting area where people are waiting for the departing flight at the gates.  This way the arrivals and departures arn't mixing.  I have seen one other airport with this arrangement and makes a ton of sense to keep the traffic flows separated. The hotel I am staying at is on a island in the Nile river and there are lots of in