Currency Exchange: Cairo Bank, set back from Alma Rum St., on the right 1 block east of Alexandria St. (tel. 93 33 17). Changes cash and traveler’s checks. Open daily 9am-2pm and 6-9pm. Post Office: 2 blocks east of Alexandria St. and 1 block south of the corniche (tel. 93 43 24). Open Sat.-Thurs. 8am-3pm.

Telephone Office: Opposite the post office. Crowded and unreliable for international calls. Open 24 hrs. Hotel Riviera Palace on Alexandria St. has a more expensive but infinitely more Zen telephone service. Telephone code: 03 (even if dialing from Alexandria).

Flights: EgyptAir, Galah St. (tel. 93 43 98), Vh blocks west of Alexandria St. Flights from and to Cairo, 50min., one way LE270. Office open Tues.-Sun. 10am lpm and 6-9pm.

Trains: 1 block east of southern end of Alexandria St., about 750m from corniche (tel. 93 30 36). To Alexandria (2nd class LE6.10, with A/CLE13; 50% student dis count). To Cairo’s Ramses Station via Alexandria (daily 10am and 1:30pm; 2nd class LE 9.20, with A/C LE18.30; wagon-lits 9hr., LE36; 50% student discount).