World Egypt`s summertime escape: White sand beaches and designer cocktails, but no room for the public As late afternoon approaches, the crowd on the beach in Egypt`s North Coast, also known as Sahel (`The Coast,`) begins to grow. (Rachel Scheier / For The Times) Kiki’s Beach Bar offers cool breezes and $14 designer cocktails. But good luck getting in — unless you’re famous, or, better yet, know someone who works the door. But exclusivity, of course, is a draw for Cairo’s junior beau monde, which on Thursday afternoons this time of year decamps north to the clear, cool waters of Sahel (“The Coast”), leaving the donkey carts and shisha bars of the capital...
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