Amazing to see, impossible to tell well!

Wow! What a trip here! Egypt is amazing! Just amazing...



Where was I last post? Ahh yes, Cairo,the smoggy city, the honking horns and other lovely city things. Well after the Egyptian museum and the next day it was decided as the last day in Cairo should be spent around the city. So the citidel was decided as the first place that day. It is pretty much a walled compound and Mosques inside. There is a Military museum in there, whichis...interesting. Lets stay at "The creative team from North Korea in 1990's helped design this". No joke...



Anyway, after poking about there for a couple hours, me, William, and this strange burned out cranky hippy dude who invited himself along from the hostel, went to Islamic Cairo. Wow! Such a cool place! Muddy streets, people and cars everywhere, not a word in anything other than Arabic. It was like a National Geoghapic TV show or Magazine. The few photos I got can't get the smell, sounds, people and feel of it in. All I can tell you is I've never seen a place like it.



The people were very nice and the food and drink different. We got a drink first at a place, which was sugar cane put into a machine then pulped up quick. Tasted creamy AND great! Next we walked ansWilliam got hungary, but the live Catfish and dead Nile perch didn't look all that tasty. Banannas were all over, but even though we had the numbers down, we didn't know what weight it was at that price. So walking along saw a little hole in the wall place and ordered a meal, which later found was Liver, Tripe and god knows what else. Not great when while looking about you see dead parts of animals being sold outside in the sun without cooling.

So after poking about there we took the night train to Aswan, which was plesant enough. Though we found that the windows are very much dirty to the poiunt you can't hardly see out!
Aswan is a wonderful place. More laid back than Cairo of course.

Among the things to see and do down here is the tomb of the nobles, Camel riding which was very fun, local villages, taking a row boat across the Nile, little kids saying hello, meeting great people and eating great food! The amount of ruins and quality is just amazing!


Anyway, one day I'll get photos up again, but right now I need to get ready for a sail boat tour of the Nile tomorrow! Onto Luxor!