We are done the deep history part of the tour, having gone to the valley of the kings this morning. I would really stress that to do this tour in summer would be insane both for crowds and temperatures. Had a great donkey ride to the valley, my donkey kept trying to lead the way even if I was hauling back on the reins. There really is some outstanding preserved stuff to be seen here but if one is interested it would be best to take more time and maybe small private tours.
The locals are friendly, just watch out because they want baksheesh for anything or nothing.
We take an overnight train back to Cairo tonight, hopefully this ones bathroom was cleaned in the last year or so.
Extremely lush country and farm land immediate to the nile with absolute desert outside of irrigation.
Just to let you know, so far I have not found a computer that will allow photo downloads, I may already have quite a bunch.
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Baksheesh, I assume, is the local currency?
Don’t worry about photos; when you get back you and I can sit down and tie some of those to the posts. It’ll be a good way to go over the pics.
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Baksheesh is tips. Or so a friend of mine in Yemen told me about that region.
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Ahh, bathrooms on trains. Have you been to any hole-in-the-ground public washrooms yet?
And how do the Egyptian men react to women there? As compared to South America, say? In one of your pictures there was a local lady covered head-to-toe, but tourists certainly aren’t. In your group have the women been told at all what might or might not be appropriate to wear, in temples or just on the street?
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No hole in the groubd, mostly used hotel facilities which are decent.
We have not encountered any really negative men to women incidents and the verbal male thing is almost non existant. But, we have been in mostly tourist areas except when a wanderer finds different places.
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Date: 06/11/2006
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