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A few misunderstandings
... there’s a better metro station just round the corner from here and kindly offers to walk me there. A professor at the American University, he’s delighted to hear about my Arabic studies. As we walk I learn that tomorrow is his daughter’s wedding. In true Egyptian style, I am cordially extended an invitation. Through the impossibility of it all, I think of all the things I’ve heard about incredible Muslim weddings…
We turn off ...
Pyramids and camel rides
So today we saw the pyramids of Giza. It's a similar feeling to when I walked on the Great Wall of China, it's a feeling of pinch me, I am witnessing something so special, it was incredible! The blocks of stone are so huge, each between five and ten tonnes, balancing perfectly, that not even an earthquake could topple them. It managed to knock down the limestone that they were covered in to make them smooth, but the structures stayed the same. You can see the one pyramid still has ...
A little help
... t think roads and driving could be any worse than there but India has nothing on Cairo. Absolutely nothing. Imagine how many people have to be a city that has a larger population than the entire country of Australia and you can see the problem. Trying to concentrate on the conversation I was having with Ahmed I watched in horror as Mohamed happily went flying past a 60km sign doing 130km and moving between other cars like he was in a dodgem car. I winced as we narrowly missed another ...
Daily Topic About Egypt
... writing, Demotic, became the prevalent writing style, and it is this form of writing—along with formal hieroglyphs—that accompany the Greek text on the Rosetta Stone. Around the 1st century AD, the Coptic alphabet started to be used alongside the Demotic script. Coptic is a modified Greek alphabet with the addition ...
Cairo, Giza, Aswan, Luxor & Dahab Egypt
... we also saw an amazing sunrise. When we landed the crew got me and said my car and guide were waiting for me, my Guide was Peter, ( he was amazing) very professional and never out of line. He took me to 3 ancient sites that day, walked with me and explained the history and significance of things we were looking at. He always gave me time alone to explore, he knew his stuff, so at the end of the trip I asked him to call Adel and tell him I wasn't feeling well and didn't need a driver ...
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