Hi Im back! Thanks for wishing me a good trip. I had a good time (but never saw a Pyramid ) and saw lots of tombs and temples. I had a tour guide called Salwa (who is part Eqyptian and part Greek). She speeks good english (but says Zeus like two words - Ze us )

The only down side is that I GOT ILL! . I always get ill, why me? 2/3's of by cruise ship (50 people in total on the ship) got sick with some sorta 'nile disease' that makes you vomit and get somache cramps (sorry for those of you who are eating ).

When I was there I found that the Eqyptians live off 200 eqyptian pounds a month. Consider that $1 is 7 eqyptian pounds, its not much to live off. Everything is cheap as well (1/3 of the price on everything that isn't imported).

On the topic of what steel said:

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have fun and stay away from those evil bad tempered beasts you should see that stuff they spit ... yuk i believe camel meat is tasty though

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I bought some camel bone knives for 10 eqyptian each. Never did eat any meat though (I hope).

Has anyone ever been to Eqypt? There are soldiers every where. They are in groups of 6 and gaurd the tourist in the monuments. The scary thing is that they have only had 3 years of school and they're given guns!

Ask any questions you want about Eqypt, if you cant think of any more.



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Edited by - BlazeME on 1/5/2004 11:57:36 PM

Edited by - Fear Factor on 1/6/2004 12:18:44 AM

It sounds like you had a great trip! Glad your back though. Sucks that you never saw a Pyrimid.

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Yah, its sucks. But what sucks more is that the post won't save my bold fixing!



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I bought some camel bone knives for 10 eqyptian each. Never did eat any meat though (I hope).

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Egyptians are legal currency in Egypt? I thought they banned slavery...

Yeah it's 10 egyptians to the pound, fixed against the yen of course, whatever the hell that means.

I can't believe you didn't see a pyramid. Did you not go to Cairo then (where you can't miss em, dirty big triangular things they are! ) presumably you went down to Luxor and Thebes and High Aswan, in which case there aren't any pyramids, not even crappy little ones. But some fabtastic temples, which imho are better than the pyramids.

Hot, isn't it?

You a mind reader Taw, thats exactly were the cruise ship brought us.

And no, I mean eqyptian pound. I just can't be bothered to write it all out. And keepig on that subject. Egyptians only earn 125 of their pounds a month. (!!!) Could Arcon live off £12.50 a month?

BTW: Thanks FF for fixing it. What did I do wrong?
Use regular slash (/) instead of backslash (\)
Oh, thanks. I thought I was doing something else, more serious.





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Edited by - Fear Factor on 1/7/2004 12:19:11 AM

Edited by - BlazeME on 1/7/2004 10:56:59 AM

I've done it myself that's how i know.

did your guide on the cruise ship happen to point out the island of Elephantine? i hope so. Doesn't look like much does it? did he/she mention the Jews that lived there in ancient times? possibly.

under all that rubble on Elephantine lie the remains of the only other Jewish Temple ever built, the original being the Temple in Jerusalem, built to house the Ark of the Covenant. Why would there be another temple outside of israel? the German arcaeological team that excavated it dated it to around the 5th-6th C BC, which oddly enough is roughly when the Ark disappeared from the Temple in Jerusalem. You went past a long resting place of the mighty Ark of the Covenant as it passed through Egypt on it's way to Ethiopia (where it still is)

tats an interesting story... makees me think of.. who was it ? um.. from the mummy.. forgot the evil guy's name.. o
imothek.. was after the scroll thing right?

pity you never saw the pyramids.. and.. 125 pounds a month ?
thats Rm 1000 where i fix the exchange rate at 1 pound to Rm8.
and they do it here.... just a little more than rm 1k for a person. in m'sia. but thats in the capital.. it might be considerably less in the rural areas.

You mean Imhotep, and no it isn't anything to do with him.

no-one earns much in Egypt, in the main, it's a total pov-hole and outside of the rich Westernised elite the people have nothing. My wife sponsors an Egyptian family through Plan International. And for a third-World arab country Egypts quite well off! Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Chad, Niger and all those places are a lot worse off, Egyptians can at least make a living out of tourism.

btw my name is on the Pyramids, next to my dad's sheer vandalism, excpet he put his there in 1948, mine went there in 1984.

Which bit did you like best btw?

Hey BlazeMe, you did it didn't you?!?! You ignored all the warnings! You Actually DRANK THE WATER!!!!!!!!! (or ate the ice)

Does brushing my teeth with the water count?
And yes Taw, its really low money to earn. But if you consider that everything that isn't imported is 1/4 of the normal price that we would expect that its alright to live there. The education there is pretty poor, 3 years of school.

Brushing your teeth with the water very definitely counts. You're supposed to use BOTTLED water to do that. When you brush your teeth it causes very small cuts in your gums, allowing germs and bacteria right in. That's also why when a tomb is opened the people doing the opening don't shave or brush their teeth for a few days before and after. Some of those diseases can easily survive for thousands of years, creating some of the reasons people are so scared of "curses" on egyptian burial sites.

BTW I thought you might give me some feedback on this sig instead of my old one .......and please don't spam/flame/thwack/eat/squashmelikeabug.

My mind is full of useless information.

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