Playa Virgen de la Nueva: It just needs a dash of sunshine to be perfect Adventures

The 8 best day trips from Madrid

We have lived in Madrid now already for a year and eight months. During that time we have discovered some really nice places in the city that we now regularly go to: restaurants, parks, whole neighbourhoods, … the Spanish capital can dish up something for the most diverse tastes. I will certainly come back to those in a different post. Here I would like to list my favorite places outside the city. We have done various day trips and weekend trips in the past year. Here I wanted to share the crème de la crème, the cherries on the delicious cake that is Madrid. Here are my 8 favorite day trips from Madrid.

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The Greatest Pyramids Adventures

The Pyramids: Wandering around a World Wonder

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I told him it was a nice try and walked away

We woke up to our alarm in our Junior Suite of the Hilton Pyramids Golf Hotel. Even though it was 8 AM I got up immediately when I realized this would be the day we would visit the Pyramids of Giza. I had seen pictures of them all my life, seen them in movies, heard and read about them many times. Today would be the day I could actually stand next to them, touch them, climb them, go inside. It is one of the highlights of every trip to Egypt, but being an independent backpacker/traveler did make it a bit more complicated. This is our pyramid story.

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Al-Azhar Mosque in Islamic Cairo Adventures

Cairo: 3 days of Mosques and Madrassas

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We literally left him biting of his nails when he realized his mistake

We had started preparing and packing already some days before our flight. Since I was still working that week and Daisy still had school we used our nights. It was going to be a three-week trip after all. Although Egypt is not the end of the world, we did want to avoid having to buy a lot over there for financial reasons. Our flights from Madrid to Cairo and back were cheap. As a result the timing was also rather bad. We were scheduled to take off in Madrid at 1:30 AM. So we left our apartment late in the evening around 10 PM, said bye-bye to our homicidal fish: Mad Max, and hoisted our backpacks (which ended up to heavy anyway)  on our backs.

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