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The guide gets the bones right but I'd push back slightly on staying in the city center the whole time. If you're doing the desert castles loop, there are a couple of basic places out toward Hallabat...

Good write-up, and the Day 1 timing around the canal is realistic. One thing I'd flag about the museums: both the Suez National Museum and the Canal Museum often close or shorten hours on Fridays, so...

Those unmarked branches off Jiuwushan are mostly old farming and logging paths that predate the current trail system. Some of them connect over toward the Jiantan side and spit you out near the trailh...

Nice work pulling all this together, though the brewery section undersells what's happening on the east side. East Rock is fine but I'd send people to Counter Weight on State Street instead, their hea...

What actually saved me there was timing, not tools. Go during the day when the little shops are open and you can use the shop signs as your map, since half the alleys look identical once everything's...