Date: February 6th, 2022 6:47 PM Author: Galvanic plum dog poop
Getting really psyched. Gonna see the Pyramids, Luxor, cruise on the Nile, the crazy shit down south near Sudan, gonna eat some fuul, check stuff out. See temple of Hatshepsut, valley of the dead, ride in a falucca, see Muslim shit gonna be great. Fingers crossed, bros
Date: February 6th, 2022 6:59 PM Author: Galvanic plum dog poop
Wow. Would love to go there.
I have family in southern italy so if I were to take a trip to Croatia I’d have to visit very remote San Michelle di Bari or risk offending good people, so I don’t go to Croatia. If I had such a thing as a “sabbatical” I would.
Date: February 10th, 2022 10:51 AM Author: Twinkling therapy
unless its some crazy nowag airline shld be easy to at least keep mask beneath nose, in b-class prob have enough privacy just take it off and pretend to sleep
everyone is tired of this bullshit incl the flight attendants
Date: February 6th, 2022 7:42 PM Author: fragrant jade church building patrolman
I spent 3 months in egypt, and it is by far the worst country i have ever visited. We had to have armed security escorts with us and drivers, who all receive kickbacks to take you to scam sites where they try to strongarm you into buying perfume or papyrus or whatever bullshit. I can't imagine going with some huge tour group & being sitting ducks, constantly on edge
The air was filthy & smelled like burning garbage, the pyramids were ruined by all the touts trying to shove shit in your face.
Date: February 10th, 2022 10:59 AM Author: Bull headed trailer park candlestick maker
Yes, terrible culture. They all lie and scam and think it’s no big deal. Even my hotel concierge tried to scam me. He also had an Egyptian wife and some British shrew wife who didn’t know about each other
Date: February 10th, 2022 11:24 AM Author: charismatic sick jew
some aspects of egyptian culture are really cool to experience as a traveller. like how cairo never sleeps and normal people really will go do normal shit at 3am. i agree the tout situation sucks but its fluid; when i went in 2016 the touts had flipped to harassing the larger asian tourist groups most aggressively and avoided the much smaller birdshit groups. if numbers flip back i guess they'll get insufferable again. you will end up spending a bunch of time with your driver/guide, so its worth spending some time to find someone likeable, but armed security is prob unnecessary unless you are off the core tourist trail, in the sinai, sahara, etc.
Date: February 10th, 2022 11:30 AM Author: Twinkling therapy
ljl doing shit at 3am isnt just eygptian culture, its like that in most of mideast and asia, its just US retard culture where the only thing open is gas stations and furking walmarts
Date: February 10th, 2022 11:34 AM Author: cream slippery fat ankles roommate
Finishing up a pack I sneaked home from a work trip. Then it'll be mournfully missing them till the next work trip.
Re Egypt - make sure you see the pyramids outside Cairo, not just the big ones at Giza. Bent pyramid and the Red pyramid. Especially the Red pyramid at Dashur. It's away from the sprawl and gives you a sense of seeing the pyramids rise out of a desolate desert that the Giza ones must have in the past before the city grew around it. When we went there there was only one other tourist while Giza was packed with people.
You can hire a car/driver via your hotel cheaply for the day to see the pyramids outside Cairo and then finish at Giza.
Date: February 10th, 2022 11:22 AM Author: Red Razzle Kitty Cat
not long ago isis would emerge from the red sea and decapitate you at your beachside resort. what i am saying is that OP should definitely go diving inshallah
Date: February 21st, 2022 11:49 AM Author: cream slippery fat ankles roommate
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Egypt is intriguing. The Egyptian ruins are fascinating. They're almost hard to believe. We take the Greek and Roman ruins for granted as there's a cultural familiarity that's persisted to this day, it's still hardwired into western culture so the architecture and statues still have a relevancy to us and we know men and women walked the streets of Pompeii and Athens sharing some common mindsets and attitudes.
But the Egyptian stuff? Whoa, man! It's an entirely different metaphysical belief set. There's no surviving civilization today that can claim descendant from the Egyptians in a meaningful sense because there's no lingering shared cultural relevancy. Modern Egypt is thoroughly Arabic. It almost makes you accept the fantastical claim that aliens influenced the ancient Egyptians. The temples and tomb paintings you'll see are really out of this world. Absolutely nothing like the Greek and Romans.
But don't ignore Arabic Egypt either. It's a different heritage and I enjoyed seeing the great mosques in Cairo too. The old islamic quarter has buildings worth visiting. Beautiful architecture.
Date: February 21st, 2022 11:08 AM Author: Galvanic plum dog poop
Wife and I have been watching Egypt youtube videos every night. There are a bunch from a dude who travelled all around the area--they are pretty interesting and show us what to expect.