SWEETLY SINGS THE DONKEY..my ass! i suprised this guy and he went NUTS! look at his face...ah, what an awful sound!!

this is a lovely family that i met who live in the 300 year old mud brick village!

I AM NOT IN CAIRO!

HI, THE PICTURES BELOW WERE ALL TAKEN FROM THE TRAIN. I LEFT LUXOR AT 930 AM AND AFTER A LONG TRIP AND HAVING A LARGE ROCK HIT MY TRAIN WINDOW (WHICH ONLY HAS ONE PANE BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN HIT BEFORE), THAT WAS VERY SCARY BUT IT DIDNT BREAK. KIDS THROW ROCKS AT TRAIN WHEN THEY GO BY, I SAW IT DONE IN VIETNAM TOO.

ANY WAYS I ARRIVED IN ASYUT, KINDA THINKING THAT I MIGHT TRY TO FIND THE ORPHANAGE...OR MAYBE JUST TAKING A BUS ON AS I REALLY DIDNT WANT TO BE IN ANOTHER BIG EGYPTIAN CITY.

AS IT WAS I WASNT GIVEN A CHOICE.

AS SOON AS I GOT OFF THE TRAIN I GOT A POLICE ESCORT TO THE BUS. WHICH IS JUST A SHORT WALK.

THEY DONT WELCOME TOURIST IN THAT TOWN...HAHA. PLUS I GUESS BECAUSE OF THE BOMB IN CAIRO IT IS EVEN WORSE RIGHT NOW.

SO I TOLD THE POLICE THAT I WANTED TO GO TO DAKHLA. AND THE BUS SAYS THAT I CAN ONLY GET A TICKET TO AL-KHARGA (WHICH IS THE OASIS TOWN BEFORE WHERE I WANTED TO GO). SO FINE.

I GET MY TICKET AND THE POLICE MAN IS STILL WITH ME. I BUY MYSELF A COKE AND ONE FOR HIM. HE TOOK THE COKE BUT WHEN I OFFERED HIM MONEY (WHICH YOU GIVE TO EVERYONE HERE!!), HE REFUSED THE MONEY, I COULD BRIBE HIM WITH COLD DRINKS BUT THAT WAS THE LIMIT!!

SO I GOT TO THE NEXT TOWN AND THEN I TOLD THE TAXI THAT I WANTED TO COME TO DAKHLA, SO I WAS TAKEN TO A MICO BUS. THEY ARE THE NIGHTMARE OF NIGHTMARES!

THE WHOLE POINT OF THE MICO BUS, IS TO SQUEEZE AS MANY PEOPLE IN AS YOU CAN AND THEN DRIVE AS FAST AS YOU CAN.

SO I TOOK A SEAT BY THE WALL SO I WASNT AS SQUISHED. THERE WERE 15 OF US IN THERE.

NEXT TO ME WAS A HANDSOME YOUNG MAN, WHO IS A FRENCH TEACHER HERE. AND NEXT TO HIM WAS AN OLD CRAZY MAN. HE SHOWED HIS MADNESS RIGHT AWAY IN TALKING TO HIMSELF, I DONT KNOW WHAT HE SAID BUT HE MADE PEOPLE LAUGH AT HIM ALOT.

THE CRAZY MAN AND I WERE THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO DIDNT HAVE CELL PHONES.
THE BUS WAS ALIVE WITH PERSONALZED CELL PHONE RINGS AND MEN TALKING REALLY LOUND ON THEIR PHONES.

WE HAD TO STOP A FEW POLICE CHECKS AND THEY ONLY CARED ABOUT ME. SO I KEPT HEARING THE DRIVER AND THE PEOPLE SAY "CANADAY....CANADAY!!" THEN EVERYONE WOULD LOOK AT ME..HOW FUN!

FUN TRIP!!
I GOT MET AT THE BUS HERE BY SAM. HE HAS THE HOTEL ANWAR WHERE I AM STAYING. YOU WILL HEAR MORE ABOUT HIM WHEN I POST THE NEW PICTURES.
NAMESTE

pics taken from the train from LUXOR to ASYUR egypt.

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THIS IS KARIM, MY NICE DRIVER TODAY. WE WENT TO THE TRAIN STATION FOR MY TICKET, THEN THROUGH THE MARKET.

A GOOD PLACE TO REST AFTER "TOMBING" ALL DAY!

THE TOUR THROUGH THE TOMBS

IT WAS A GOOD DAY, STARTING AT 630 AM WHEN I CLIMBED INTO A FULL BUS OF TOURIST AND HEADED OFF TO A PLACE THAT HAS HAD TOURIST SINCE TIME BEGAN!
MIGHT BE THE MOST VISITED AREA EVER!
EVEN THOUGH WE ARRIVED EARLY THERE WERE ALREADY MANY BUSSES AHEAD OF OURS. THE TOUR GUIDE TALKED MOST OF THE WAY THERE AND GAVE US A PRETTY GOOD IDEA OF WHAT WE WOULD BE DOING.
WE VISITED 3 TOMBS. THE FIRST ONE AS A GROUP AND THE 2ND 2 ON OUR OWN.
I MADE A GREAT FRIEND, JAZ, SHE IS TRAVELLING ALONE TOO.
SO HER AND I VISITED THE OTHER 2 TOGETHER AND THEN WE WERE LATE FOR THE BUS AND COULDNT FIND OUR GROUP.
BY THE TIME WE FOUND OUR BUS, EVERYONE WAS ALREADY IN THERE WAITING FOR US!
YEAH WE WERE THOSE PEOPLE. OOPS!
I HAVE TO SAY THAT SEEING THE TOMBS AND TEMPLES WAS WONDERFUL BUT WHAT MADE THE DAY AND WHAT I WILL REMEMBER ARE THE PEOPLE. THE AMAZINGLY STRONG WOMEN WHO I MET WHO HAVE TRAVELLED FROM FAR AWAY TO SEE THIS SIGHT.
BRAVE STRONG INDEPENDANT WOMEN.
I WAS BLESSED TO HAVE MET THEM AND HEARD SOME OF THEIR STORIES.
EGYPT IS NOT FOR THE WEAK!