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Jan on 04/07/2005 wrote:
I've have the same experience. No flash allowed, unless you give the guard a pen.... LOL...BIC BIC. In fact any pen with non Arabic writing on it I've no clue if a few flashes will damage the paintings. In several temples, the guards where showing tourists the most important drawings using a candle. They force themselve onto the tourists, even when you tell them not to join you. Of course all for a baksheesh. Best time to visit the sites in the Valley of Kings etc. is around mid day. There tend to be a few less tourists in the mid day heat and often the guards are snoozing. We had to climb over three sleeping guards in one tomb and then used the ticket they didn't collect in another As far as forcing themselves on tourists etc. that can be a pain especially when you can't understand them and when you do understand them it becomes obvious they don't know what they are talking about. One showed me a fresco and told me it was Horus, I kept telling him no, it is of Tahuti (Thoth). If you know what you are looking at and know the ropes it is easy to tell them you don't kneed them as you are a professor of Egyptology even if you are not. I can the imagine the soot doesn't help preserving the drawings. Be prepared to pay a lot of baksheesh. Every photo of a person or animals (the owner will magically appear). I've heard about that, but, it has never happened to me. Most Egyptians I have met are only too pleased for you to take a photo of them, they feel honoured. On the other hand I've often thought it funny and charming when Egyptians ask you to join them in a photo that one of them is taking. Evidently they then show it to their friends and tell them that it is "us with our foreign friend". |
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"One_Haole" posted:
I spent the month of May in Egypt. If interested, some pictures are at: http://home.hawaii.rr.com/pat/MapLinks.htm I don't claim to be an expert. Nice pictures and descriptions, especially for somebody like me who has tickets to Egypt this winter. - Max -- MisterMax http://buten.net/max/ Slideshows of Angkor Wat, Bali, Crete, France, Malaysia, Maui, Morocco, Mt Holly, Myanmar (new), Sicily, St Tropez, Singapore, Thailand (new), Tour de France. http://pbase.com/mistermax - Shadows and Reflections |
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Mister Max on 06/07/2005 wrote:
Nice pictures and descriptions, especially for somebody like me who has tickets to Egypt this winter. - Max Here's a few from my last trip there at Easter 2004. I wasn't doing any travelling that time so they are mainly of Cairo and districts. http://share-jasc.shutterfly.com/osi...EeCNmbFs1bNHpw Rob |
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"Canopus" posted:
Mister Max on 06/07/2005 wrote: Nice pictures and descriptions, especially for somebody like me who has tickets to Egypt this winter. - Max Here's a few from my last trip there at Easter 2004. I wasn't doing any travelling that time so they are mainly of Cairo and districts. http://share-jasc.shutterfly.com/osi...EeCNmbFs1bNHpw Rob Shutterfly won't show me the pictures tonight - just the thumbnails. - Max -- MisterMax http://buten.net/max/ Slideshows of Angkor Wat, Bali, Crete, France, Malaysia, Maui, Morocco, Mt Holly, Myanmar (new), Sicily, St Tropez, Singapore, Thailand (new), Tour de France. http://pbase.com/mistermax - Shadows and Reflections |
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Mister Max on 07/07/2005 wrote:
"Canopus" posted: Mister Max on 06/07/2005 wrote: Nice pictures and descriptions, especially for somebody like me who has tickets to Egypt this winter. - Max Here's a few from my last trip there at Easter 2004. I wasn't doing any travelling that time so they are mainly of Cairo and districts. http://share-jasc.shutterfly.com/osi...EeCNmbFs1bNHpw Rob Shutterfly won't show me the pictures tonight - just the thumbnails. - Max Odd, I've never seen that happen before. Could be too many people accessing it I suppose. Seems to be working fine and quick now. Rob |
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