Last night in Egypt.. so what are my feelings about this country? Firstly, overwhelming history and culture.. the ruins are already so impressive.. just imagine Egypt in its hay days.. but that's the past.. what about the future? Will Egypt continue to grow into a strong nation as it was before during the pharaonic age? Suez canal.. tourism resources... hope good things come out of these.. and get distributed to the people... it's really tough to trade with arabic people.. they're shrewd... they're aggressive.. they always want to get more out of you... dealing with them involves a lo [View Full Entry]

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Arrived in Aswan this morning.. I am taking the same train that i took overnight from Cairo - Luxor.. now i'm taking the next leg.. Train is supposed to leave at 7am, but arrived only at 830am.. well, not too bad already i guess... when i took the train to Luxor, it arrived only at 10am.. hah.. 2nd class train ticket from Luxor to Aswan cost 16LE for students.. and about double that for adults.. it takes 3 hrs (by right).. and it took 3.5hrs to do that this morning.. Arrived in Aswan about 12 noon.. Checked out the Nubian [View Full Entry]

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There are a few sights around Luxor - Luxor Temple and Karnak Temple on the East bank, Tombs of the Kings, Queens, Nobles, and Hashephut Temple on the West bank, and Abydos where Osiris' head was buried after Seth killed him... Didn't do Abydos, which need a full day trip.. So.. my overnight train from Cairo was supposed to arrive at 7am in Luxor.. but it arrived only at 10am... so, went in search of a good place to stay.. the Nefertari had some pretty good comments in LP, walked there.. but was told room rate is fixed at 50LE.. [View Full Entry]

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Overall, Giza did not give me a very good impression.. in fact.. i quite dislike the place.. maybe becos of all those hassling.. Mark Twain (i think.. not big on details, remember?) once said something like Giza's hassling for baksheesh or business causes suffering that no pen can write.. (in his better literary proses of course.. not big on details.. remember? =) by the time u get to the pyramids.. you are quite tired already.. ok, remember how i entered into the mummy's display from the exit? I think i've developed quite a knack for it.. I did it again! [View Full Entry]

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Today is my last day in Cairo, as I'll be taking the overnight train to Luxor.. and I planned to spend the entire day with the pyramids.. The Nile at Cairo Walked to the Nile before hitting out the pyramids to enjoy the Nile at Cairo. The river was pretty nice.. blue waters.. clean.. but as you can see from the photo, air in Cairo is pretty polluted. A german I met the night before told me studies have shown that breathing the air in Cairo for one day is equivalent to smoking 60 cigarettes.. wah.. dunno real or not.. [View Full Entry]

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Woot.. early morning surfing.. and why not.. blogging.. haha.. Going to take a walk by the Nile now.. and then to Giza and region later.. Just placed my backpack into the locker room of this hotel.. Saw a few other packs there.. tried lifting them.. and woohoo! Those are so much heavier than mine.. feels so much better now.. haha.. I'm not a kiasu packer! Ok.. maybe i'm just blogging in the morning for the sake of blogging in the morning.. haha.. going off now.. ciao babes [View Full Entry]

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Yay! Recognize my momobay.. installed driver.. and recognized my camera! Downloaded all photos into momobay.. yay! More gigabytes to burn!! And they have ACDSee 7.0 too!! woot! [View Full Entry]

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ok.. my previous entry was a bit long.. haha.. maybe should have some kind of structure.. let's try.. WEATHER Forgot to talk about the Cairo weather yesterday.. The weather was actually pretty cold when i touched down in the morning, about 22deg.. it gets warmer as the day goes on, to about maybe 28-30 at noon.. and drops back down at night.. the climate is of course dry.. no sweat.. great! It actually rained for about 5mins this morning while i was in the Sudan Embassy! i was worried it'll rain the whole day.. then i remembered rain here is [View Full Entry]

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It's 946pm over here.. which is 246am singapore time now.. so i may not be typing very coherently.. whatever.. just type whatever... The SQ flight is alright.. read the Egypt guide and slept the most of the dubai flight, except when they served food.. there's this egyptian guy sitting next to me on the plane.. wow.. what a powerful BO he has.. i was thinking, suey liao... must tahan for many hours... but after some time, cannot smell already.. maybe my nose got used to it.. whatever.. as long as no smell perceived.. Arrived in Dubai at about 330am dubai time, [View Full Entry]

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woah.. less than 6 hours away and i'll be on the bird heading for Cairo... actually didn't feel any excitement about the trip until only last night, when i realized.. it's my last night in a comfy air-con bed!! haha.. Just finished packing everything.. have attached my final gear here.. seems to be an awful lots of things.. but i reviewed my barang-barange twice.. in the end only took out a tube of deepheat and calamine lotion for mosquito bites.. why need all these? when i have the all-powered tiger balm oil! headache put head, stomachache put stomach, hand pain put [View Full Entry]

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