Well Egypt has not really fully joined the modern world yet! Good internet access is hard to come by! But I guess that you should not complaint when you are cruising down the Nile and your biggest worry is wanting to up date your blog! I will not try to up date you on all the going on's as that would take forever! And there are a few others on my tour company who are quite keen to use my computer as we have free wifi. So I will just talk about the first two days.
I finally arrived in Cairo on Sat 5th of Dec after a very interesting flight. The flight had a wee stop over that I did not know about! I can now offically say that I have been to Uzbekistan! The plane was meant to make a short stop there to refuel and drop off people. But as we were leaving the plane there was a total power failure!!! And the short 20min visit to Uzbekistan turned into a two hour 'oh my are we going to be able to get back on the plane' moment. After being thoroughly searched we were allowed back on the plane (why search us we were not able to go anywhere but secure room???)
I was very glad to see my hotel room at about two am but there was only a short time before I had to get up and go off to see the Pyramids and Sphinx. The weather here has been amazing. The Egyptians are freezing cold and I am loving it! But I don't think the Egyptian quite understand the whole tourism industry. They don't really seem to care about the things they have in this country. You can touch just about everything and while there are metal detectors everywhere that go off all the time no one bothers to search you.
The Cairo Musesum is crazy. They have so much stuff but it is all crowded in with poor lighting and very little written information that you can read with the displays. And busy as hell. This is the high season for tourism in Egypt and I have decided that I don't like tourist much. They are rude and pushy!!!
Anyway I have a sweet 15 year old Aussie girl who is desparate to connect with the world wide web so I will sign off now and hope for more internet soon!
Hi Naamah nice to get your note and to see your pic in front of those pointy things. I was beginning to wonder if you were on a Somail cruise. Its cold here as well and I imagine Petra is considering snow... so be ready. Last night it was the staff dinner and we went to the Dead Sea. It is the lowest point on the planet...mmmm Maybe Im reading the signs too literally. I hope that you have lots of pics to show me. See you in a few days.
ReplyDeleteHey sexy.. Are you enjoying yourself? You don't actually say? Kiss a big snotty nosed cranky camel for me.. lickies J
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