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Friday, November 16, 2007

day 1 in the land where orange fanta is king!

freashmeat: you're riding a camel tomorrow. get your head in the game.






after traveling for what felt like days, freshmeat and i arrived at the cairo airport (our first order of business was to find a restroom. unfortunately we didn't see one until after we went through passport control). our tour rep was there and waiting for us as we got off the plane. he quickly put one of us in line for passport control and the other one went to buy visas. he then left us saying he would meet us at baggage claim.

after passport control, freshmeat and i spotted a restroom and dashed over to it. this old woman gets up and toddles in ahead of us. both of us thought it was a single stall kind of thing and hesitated. she looked back and motioned us in. freshmeat and i about lost it. the first stall was nothing but a hole in the ground.

next the old woman whips out a roll of toilet paper and hands me a mound that was as large as my head.

luckily the other two stalls had actual toilets. i then proceed to spend a solid 5 minutes fumbling around trying to flush the damn thing. i got mine to work first. freshmeat was thinking "fuck, if vixen figured it out, then surely i should!" she turns a knob and is suddenly his with a spray of water. there's a shower in there as well.



eventually we get to our hotel and check in. we are told we need to be up and checked out of the hotel by 7 am to start the tour.



the next day we get to see the wonder of Sakkara (or Saqqara), the beauty of Giza, and the amazement of Memphis (i'm having issues with blogger and posting more than one photo...the one above is from my camel trek in the "desert.").

i even got to practice my arabic when i ordered two falafels for lunch (the woman smiled at me and said something to effect of "awww...how cute.").



after all this we come back to the hotel for a run down of our whole tour with the rep, a bit of late lunch/early dinner, and then we hang around waiting to be picked up to be taken to the train station. we were booked on an overnight train to Aswan.



what was supposed to be a 12-hour train ride, turned into a 14-hour one.

and i don't want to think about why our seats were stained red.

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