2 days in the mother of all tourist traps
November 28th 2008 As I struggled through the bustling crowds of Cairo's Ramses Station and squeezed onto the 10 p.m. train to Luxor, I was struck with a rather unpleasant sensation. I would liken it to the feeling of dread one might have shortly before stumbling intentionally into a bear trap that they can quite plainly see. All far-fetched metaphors aside, however, the trap I'm speaking of at the moment is one for
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