Only had time for a few.
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That's me camel. I like to call him Cammy.
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One of the larger 'step' pyramids.
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Then Abu Simbal. Don't mind the blury spot on the bottom right. That's my finger.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Khan el-Khalili (had to google the spelling) (Day 3 Part 2)
Khan el-Khalili still can't even spell it. Definately one of the most annoying stops I made on this trip. Basically a whole bunch of people with really bad english trying to convince you to come into their shop so that they can rip you off. We literally had a guy say "How can I take your money today?". They might get a bit more business if they understood that most American people consider it rue to follow other people nagging em to buy something. And you can't really browse easily because as soon as you even look at something they take it to be a sign of you wanting it and they are on you like flies on s***. Me and my father only bought one thing and that was a Chessboard. The guy was originally trying to sell it for 650 LE (Egyptian Pounds), about $118.
Yeah right. It has a decent looking board and cool Egyptian God style pieces, but it ain't worth near that much. My dad was pretty sure to try for around 50-60% of original price, that was what he had done 15 years ago the last time he was here. We got it down to 50% but when we asked our tour guide how much he thought it was worth he said about 25% of original. So we got ripped off of about $30. After that I had some crappy pizza and we went back to our hotel.
Yeah right. It has a decent looking board and cool Egyptian God style pieces, but it ain't worth near that much. My dad was pretty sure to try for around 50-60% of original price, that was what he had done 15 years ago the last time he was here. We got it down to 50% but when we asked our tour guide how much he thought it was worth he said about 25% of original. So we got ripped off of about $30. After that I had some crappy pizza and we went back to our hotel.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Yay for steady internet. (Day 3 Part 1)
This day was relatively uninteresting for the most part.
There are two things I don't really love doing when going to a different place. One is museums, and the other is shopping. So what did we do? Both.
Our first stop was the Egyptian Museum. It was impressive just by the sheer number of artifacts they had all lined up next to each other. They literally ran out of room to place things, so they are begining construction of a new Museum. Our guide said it was going to cost around 500 million dollars to build it. Maybe then it would be more enjoyable. But at present it is overstuffed and over crowded. King Tuts artifacts were still amazing. But that just about sums up my visit there.
There are two things I don't really love doing when going to a different place. One is museums, and the other is shopping. So what did we do? Both.
Our first stop was the Egyptian Museum. It was impressive just by the sheer number of artifacts they had all lined up next to each other. They literally ran out of room to place things, so they are begining construction of a new Museum. Our guide said it was going to cost around 500 million dollars to build it. Maybe then it would be more enjoyable. But at present it is overstuffed and over crowded. King Tuts artifacts were still amazing. But that just about sums up my visit there.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Woooo finally time for a update. (Day two cont.)
Where was I? Ah yes, the Pyramids.
It was really amazing how they were able to construct such large structures so long ago with only the use of human beings. The degree of precision is also quite amazing.
After first arriving there we continued on and arrived at a small hill overlooking the three pyramids. There, we rented two camels (my dad was too heavy for all three of us to fit on one... just kidding) and took an infuriating slow trip in a straight line toward the smalles pyramid. I was hoping to atleast circle one of them, not just get increasingly closer. That just about sums up my visit of the pyramids. Next we went to the Sphynx which was quite a bit smaller than I thought but still pretty large. There isn't much to explain about this particular visit. They don't really let you get close enough to take a good photo of someone next to it. After that we just made a number of small stops to different shops before returning to our hotel (we were still ridiculously jet lagged).
It was really amazing how they were able to construct such large structures so long ago with only the use of human beings. The degree of precision is also quite amazing.
After first arriving there we continued on and arrived at a small hill overlooking the three pyramids. There, we rented two camels (my dad was too heavy for all three of us to fit on one... just kidding) and took an infuriating slow trip in a straight line toward the smalles pyramid. I was hoping to atleast circle one of them, not just get increasingly closer. That just about sums up my visit of the pyramids. Next we went to the Sphynx which was quite a bit smaller than I thought but still pretty large. There isn't much to explain about this particular visit. They don't really let you get close enough to take a good photo of someone next to it. After that we just made a number of small stops to different shops before returning to our hotel (we were still ridiculously jet lagged).
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