Fishwrecked in Egypt
Well after years of planning, my wife and I finally made out trip to Egypt recently.
I have got to say that it was an even better trip than I had hoped for.
Egypt is a fantastic place. The people were great. Really helpful and friendly. The scenery was incredible. It is amazing to see how such an advanced civilisation was really created around a very thin strip of land that sits on both sides of the Nile River.
And as for Cairo. It is a crazy city, but I would go there again tomorrow. 15 million people, 5 million cars, 24 hours a day traffic jams, but it has an incredible buzz.
It is amazing to see how close the Great Pyramids at Giza and the Sphinx is to the city. The Sphinx is a lot smaller than you would picture, it is roughly the size of a bus.
The trip up the Nile on a cruise boat was a great experience, as was the visit to the temples and tombs at Aswan and Luxor. The artwork in the tombs was incredible and some of the carvings and paintings are so well preserved it looks like it was only done recently. There are plenty of yummy mummys in Egypt. The young egyptian ladies are stunning. Sorry, but customs (my wife) wouldn't let me bring you one back.
Matt (Mako). Unfortunately you cant' take cameras into the mummy sections at the Egyptian Museum.
Below are just a few of the hundreds of pics I took. I hope you don't mind me posting them, as I know they are not fishing related, but I thought some of you may be interested.
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sounds like
a great holliday.bet your glad to be back home in the cold again..............NOT
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Lucky bugger Colin! That first pic is a classic. LOL!!
Looks like they cleaned the place up for your visit. Was like a cess pit a few years ago.
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Yeah, I had heard that it was pretty dirty Jody
But I found it to be remarkably clean. I don't know if that was because it was the low season. That certainly made a big difference in visiting the historic sites. There were generally very small crowds, unlike the high season where you have to line up for hours to see some sights.
It also made a big difference on our cruise boat. I think it can cater for just over 100, but there were only 12 on our cruise.
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Lol You can say that again Russ and Sandy
It has taken me a few days to acclimatise again.
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Great pics Col. Good to hear
Great pics Col.
Good to hear yuo had an enjoyable time.
We are planning to heaad over there in the next few yrs.
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You will have a great time there Neander
I would suggest that you go in the low season. While it is fairly hot, the lack of crowds made visiting the various sites a lot easier. We were told that a visit to the Valley of the Kings (which we did in about 1 1/2 hours),takes at least 6 hours in high season.
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Top stuff #1
Great pics - some beautties there mate. Sounds like you had an awesome time.
Was that your wife belly dancing Col?
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LOL I wish Colin (only joking)
It was a great time thanks mate. Only thing else I would have liked to do was a bit of fishing. I did try a handline oneday off the side of the cruise boat, but the river was flowing very fast, and I didn't have any big sinkers, so my line kept getting pulled against the side of the boat. There were plenty of fish in the Nile though.
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Haha #1
Well, at least you tried. Did any of the other passangers become curious as to what you were doing?
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At that time my wife and I were the only ones on deck
But the Egyptian barman was given me strange looks, especially as I had taken some anchovies fropm the previous evening's buffet to use as bait.
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LOL #1
I bet he was hehehehe
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love the pictures, it looks
love the pictures, it looks like you had a great time.
But where are the fish pictures
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Hi Shortly
I would have loved to spend some time fishing in the Nile, but we had a full on programme, so I only had one chance and I didn't have the right gear for the conditions. There were quite a few local fishing. I didn't see anyone catch any, but I did see quite a few fish swimming around.
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Lol
I was thinking of getting her to wear my hat for one of her dances. But the show was so short, it was over before we knew what was happening. To be honest, I don't think I could have handled too much more of the music the accompanying band was playing.
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Thanks Col
i now know where my boat originated
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That was one of the great things to se while floating down the
Nile, Ian. All the locals going out in their old boats fishing in the evenings. They mostly netted for their fish, but there were a couple fishing with rods.
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Great pics Colin
Cheers
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Thanks Andy
Unfortunately my sunset pics at the Pyramids didn't quite work out as well.
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cool!
Some great pics Colin. It would of been an awesome trip that I supose you would have to see first hand to truely understand & appreciate!
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Spot on Ryan
Especially Cairo. Trying to explain how you could enjoy a place that was absolutely crazy is difficult. I guess the fact that it was such a vast change from quiet old Perth that really made it so interesting. My wife and I took the chance to do bit of walking around the back alleys of Cairo to see what life was really like for the locals and that was great.
The second last pic is a pretty good example of the what Cairo was like. We were lucky enough to stay in a great hotel. Old world charm with all the latest amenities. Right nerxt door was this derilict looking building which was typical of most of the Cairo homes. These flats aren't finished off as the owner has to pay a tax when his building is finished. So you have a block of flats which looks like it has been bombed, and living on the roof are goats, sheep, chickens, geese and ducks. And just about everyone of these flats has a couple of satellite discs sitting amongst the rubble.
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Good to see you back safely #1. Sounds like an awesome trip, always wanted to do it myself, maybe one day!
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Hope you get the chance Adam
I am sure you would love the experience. And as you know there is some great diving off the Egyptian coast which would be well worth having a look at.
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A few captions to help explain some of the pics
Pic 3: A photo of the cruise vessel Moon Goddess which my wife and I cruised from Aswan to Luxor on. A nice vessel.
Pic 10: I cracked up when I saw the signage on this van at the Pyramid at Giza carpark. I wondered if it was for an Arabian version of the Australia TV show of a few years ago called Bargeass.
Pic 11: This an anicent hyroglyph that the conspiracy theorists claim backs up their belief than aliens helped build the pyramids.
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Do you know ..
What the hieroglyph actually meant?
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Sorry Tommo, Unfortunately there was no-one around
I could ask at the time. I have been told that the original hyroglyph has been affected by erosion and looked like quite different (I like the conspiracy theory better).
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hyroglyph
Where's Daniel Jackson when you neeed him.
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dream
hyro or hiero?
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Yes, the correct spelling is hiero.... I just copy and pasted #1's word as I was typiong one handed whilst eating a curry pie LOL
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Mate, that's a big effort, eating a curry pie one handed
I would have dribbled the curry all over my keyboard.
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LOL # 1
Tell you, it was touch and go
, but 100% gob certified now 
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LMAO Colin
We might have to have a pie eating contest on Friday night.
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Go The Pies!
hehehehe!
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Glad
Glad to hear you had an awesome trip Colin!
I too intend to visit there one day, the photos look amazing, was there some sort of aura when visiting some of the sites like the pyramids, tombs, sphinx etc?
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There certainly was a funny feeling Tommo
Especially at the Valley of the Kings where we got to look at quite a few of the tombs. The other interesting things there was the proximity of the tombs to each other. For example, Tuttenkahmen's tomb is only metres away from the tomb of Ramses VI. It was a wonder they didn't dig into the other tomb. The other thing was how close to the Nile river the tombs were. I always pictured King Tutts tomb to be in the middle of nowhere, but it is really only a short donkey ride from the Nile.
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Colin
Thats how i dreamt of egypt, even seeing your photos gives me a shudder because i have always been interested in Ancient History and King Tutt etc, Egypt would be in the top 3 of my places to eventually visit for sure!
Oh by the way, did you get any photos of Tutt's tomb or aren't cameras allowed?
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We couldn't take photos in his tomb or of his treasures which
were in the Egyptian museum. Tutts tomb was okay, but not as spectacular as some of the others, particularly Ramses VI.
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i bet when you say
you had a nanny as a little fella you aren't talking about Fran Drescher
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Thanks guys
There were some very beautiful ladies in Egypt. Some pretty hot looking goats too.
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Good post Colin, a nice
Good post Colin, a nice change of pace, looks like you had a great time .My daughter was jealous as she would love to go to Egypt, and see the sights ,still theres no place like home, and it makes one appreciate what one has, when visiting these places. good you had a safe trip
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Cheers Paul
I hopr you daughter gets to go one day. I would like to take my daughters there next time I get a chance to go.
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You said It might not be
You said It might not be fishing related but did anyone get their rods out with that belly dancer.As far as the Heiro glifics or hyroglifics or old as Writing ask Sherbert to translate he was around when that stuff was chiseled in lolCHEERS SHAG
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Unfortunately she looks a lot better in the photo than in real
life Shag.
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thats what i was thinking colin
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My father has terrible
My father has terrible memories from Egypt i was actually kidnapped there when i was a two year old apparently the two women that took me were fasinated with my light blond hair .he says to this day the horrors came when i was returned after the military police tracked me down CHEERS SHAG
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Lol Shag
Your'e dad sounds like a crack-up.
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Awesome
Awesome post and pics Colin. I used to want to be an archaeologist when I was a kid, and of course Egypt was the topic of choice when I went to the library. Interesting the Sphinx is so small, are you serious that was the ridgy didge sphinx? Unbelievable!
The proximity of the tombs is an eye opener too. I pictured them to be hidden amongst vast expanses of desert.
Cheers for the share buddy. Sounds like a great time was had!
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Hi Abandon
Apparantly there are many, many spinxs, but that one is the fanous one.
You can eat a pizza of Kentucky Fried and look at the Pyramids of Giza and the Spinx. A bit sad really.
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