Quote Originally Posted by GTC21
I know, it's amazing how they got the boulders up on the pyramids, they weighed like 2 tons each or something, and how the pyramids line up with the stars.
Great photos, I hope you were stood well back when you photographed that mean looking croc! look at the teeth on it. He's looking as if to say 'mmmmmm, breakfast.
The Egyptians were one of the only history subjects I was interested in at school, I'm gonna have to go there one day.

That croc is rumoured to be the last on the Nile - the majority have been killed by the damned deisel powered tourist boats (pollution and simply being caught up in props and paddles)...

You have to go to Egypt - if you are gonna go, I would recommend only a short time in Cairo - the whole experience is kinda destroyed there by the grafitti on the Spynx and the KFC you can see from the Pyramids - kinda removes the magical experience - but they are worth seeing.

Luxor is downstream - close to the Valley of the Kings where Ramses moved all the treasures and sarcophagi fearing robbery - he had over 100,000 men do the move and then had the majority killed to maintain the secret - there are hyrohlyphics in the tombs which tell the story in pictures (one below)...

Egypt is the home of many things - from central heating (under floor), engineering (the Pyramids line up with stars, and have been built to exact specifications and angles), and the Vampire stories started in Egypt, not in Bram Stokers imagination!! Ancient tribes and Pharoahs used to drink the blood of their enemies in order to absorb their strength....

Luxor is home to Karnak Temple (amazing), the Valley of the Kings (hot but worth the visit), and some wonderful people - its a slightly confused place, being half Christian and half Moslem - but, with the exception of the hard sell you get in the shops the people are generous and beautiful in nature.

You can get 7 days in Luxor in a 4* hotel for about £250 from the UK - check out the online discount holiday sites..... of course, another way to get there (and the way I first got to Egypt) is to volunteer to work on a dig with a university - you have to cover your flights, and you have to work hard - but its a good way to learn about the history from people obsessed by it!

We had a great time - even going to a locals (Simon) house for hashish and dinner (a couple of stuffed pigeons - probably caught from the roof) - simple but happy people.... if you go, I recommend you find a friendly Kalesh driver, ask to be taken to the Duty Free Shop - right next door is a small shop where Jimmy and Akhmed work - find them, ask them to find Simon, and employ him as your Kalesh driver - tell him Mark and Tam sent you - and call him "Cossanossa" and he will know who you mean - we use him every time we go there, and he is honest, helpful and knows the best places to find the things you need! Pay him a little each night, with a promise to pay a lump before you leave - he will take care of you - and £50 at the end of your trip will make him a VERY happy man - and you probably will not pay for your weed!!

Good luck!!

Damn I write lotsa shit when I am stoned....... can't be good!!