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... Karim. We sit in an ‘ahuwa’ (the ‘no trimmings: just
coffee, sheesha, chairs and tables’ type cafes you see everywhere) and do a mix
of Arabic and English conversation, though needless to say his English is way
above my level in Arabic. L
A literature grad writing plays alongside a paying job,
this is the first time I’ve found someone doing something in a field other than
...
Spellings, skylines, starbucks
... white skin,
Mouira is great. Big public buildings (with wordy official titles for not much meaning), schools, wasing lines, shops stacking caged chickens and rabbits out on the roads, and crumbling brick houses with rugs thrown out of the windows - it's grubbily charming and familiar as it acts out a routine of cafe trade, kids travelling to and from its many schools, and the metro rattling by on ...
Cairo, Giza, Aswan, Luxor & Dahab Egypt
... would be closed on Sunday, I also had to do my Blue Hole snorkeling that day, so off I went, the snorkeling was amazing, so many colors and coral it was gorgeous, The Blue hole is considered one of the most dangerous dive spots in the world, 30 people a year die there, it's a technical dive called the Arch, 53 meters deep, you have to dive with two Nitro's tanks most people die because they try to do it with one tank. After lunch and snorkeling, i went back to the hotel, was able to ...
Cairo, Giza, Aswan, Luxor & Dahab Egypt
... yes, but I have to find the ATM first, so he says he will take me to see the Pyramids, and then to the ATM, so off we go. It was really so much fun to ride the Camel, we rode for almost 3 hours, got great shots of me and my Camel, And then we ended it by taking me on a Camel run through the desert. My Guide was married with two kids, but kept trying to get me to marry him, ( totally nuts) I thought he was just flirting and had a language barrier, but his Dad started doing the same ...
Cairo, Giza, Aswan, Luxor & Dahab Egypt
... coffins (4) he was buried in, the museumis a must see even with all the Chaos. I hopped on a 9 hour bus ride that turned in to 11 hours with at least 7 checkpoints, where armed guards came on and looked al all our passports, in great detail there was heavy security on most stops with men on rooftops with machine gums, very unnerving. But made it to Dahab, once I arrived they told me there was a change in plans and that I would have to climb Mount Sinai that night, because ...
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