Egypt, not going to bore anyone with descriptions of places and artifacts we all grew up seeing, I'll bore you with something else. For all the following mock complaining, the Pharaonic sights truely amaze, with a little luck its possible to visit around the crush of tours, be warned though, visiting Egypt while not on a packaged tour still feels like a packaged tour. Cattle Car Tourism - Ah Egypt, home to package tourism, you don't see one pasty white tourist you see a thousand. Not one bus, fifty. On the bus, off the bus, into the museum, onto the boat, into the tomb, come on people we have schedule! Move it! Red hats, blue buttons and purple name tags. Turquoise jumpers and heavy lipstick, is this fun? Still lingering from the terrorist attacks from 97,
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