The Egyptian Government here...Who's gonna come to the Grand Egyptian Museum? Will open in 30 days lmao
>>2828956It is on my bucketlist.
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>>2828956Sorry but now that I'm in a relationship with a woman I will never visit Egypt. Wish I could've visited before but oh well.
>>2828978Over there you can sell her for five camels
any experiences with Egyptian girls?
>>2828956How many times will we get scammed from the airport to the museum?
>>2828978I'm friends with a couple that went to Egypt for their honeymoon and they had no issues besides the usual pushy salesmen
>>2829090>I'm friends with a couple that went to Egypt for their honeymoon and they had no issues besides the usual pushy salesmenIf you spend enough money the resort staff serve as protection from the tsunami of cunts that you ordinarily have to deal with
>>2829081Egypt is nightmare mode, but Morocco/Tunisia are very possible.>>2829085Uber works fine, just refuse all extra offers from the driver
>>2829099>Uber works fine, just refuse all extra offers from the driverUber made the world magnitudes better to travel in. So much tension and drama used to come from taxi drivers. Booking.com and fear of bad reviews has also dramatically changed how shitty travel can be. Egypt is still horrible cunts ground zero though
just came back from a resort in egypt, i mean the resort was okay nothing special, the staff was nice but i couldn't imagine going back or outside a resort, just for egyptians they are literally the definition of scum, even people from the goverment/ariport staff feel like scammers everyone shouts at u in the airport and everything is so caotic and stupid that it's even hard to understand if it's someone from the staff or some random scammer, beautiful place but the people are insufferable plus from what i've heard it's not that cheap like it was 10 years ago. Talking with other people at the airport a lot of them had really horrible experiences, so i'm happy that i had a good time but for me i think it's enough. Too bad because there's a lot of cool stuff to see. For me it's a pass
>>2828956Yeah, sure, make direct flight from Dubai to a resort near your musem, without having to interact with any egyptian local, and we have a deal.
>>2828956Think I actually will, due to seeing this thread. Made a Siwa thread, but nobody replied. Thinking of the following itinerary:>Land in Cairo at midnight>Uber straight up to Alexandria>1 nights>Try and get train along coast to Marsa Matruh>2 nights all inclusive are similar>Local bus through desert to Siwa>4 nights with private pool and desert view>Propose to gf next to Siwa Lake under full moon>Night bus back to Cairo>Hotel with pyramid view>Go to museum>Flight home
>>2830506It's a great place to travel. the problem is that it's a 3rd world police state, and people just aren't used to that. If you get past the filter, it's epic as fuck for travel. It's like being transported to another world. I unironically love Cairo, just for the sheer chaos and vidya vibes.Being able to firmly say no, and learning basic Arabic helps immensely, too. Basic transactions, answering 'where are you from friend', numbers, general pleasantries with a smile, etc will transform lots of negative situations into 'Arabic practice', and you'll have endless opportunities to improve your game.>>2828978If you're not an absolute fucking pussy, your girl will be absolutely fine as long as you're with her, and she's covering her ankles and wrists. The hencher and richer you are, the less she can wear.Went to a Haloween party at the Swiss Embassy grounds once. Girls were dressed like it was Europe, kek. A literal horde gathered by the gates, and upon leaving we were all mobbed, with girls getting groped, etc. Basically had to dive into a taxi asap, which then proceeded to go full throttle into a huge crowd which miraculously didn't get injured.Was scarier than hanging out at any of the protests on Tahrir.
Veteran traveller writer Kapuściński wrote about his Egypt experience (and he was in Kongo during civil war etc). Some guy told him he would show him "amazing view" then he lead him through the stairs at the top of the tall building (forcing him to go all the way through as he was behind him and stairs were narrow) then guy threatened him to stab him and throw off the building if not paid
>>2830514I've only read Shah of Shahs. Anything else you'd recommend? Something on Egypt would be good.
>>2830515Ive only read Lapidarium (blogpost like aphorisms, not very interesting), and Travels with Herodotus, where he talks about ancient greek history and Herodotus and he contrasts it with his own "modern" (as in 50s) travels to India, China, Kongo and other countries. Fragment about Egypt is also from this book. It's cool
>>2830517Cheers man. Travels with Herodotus sounds pretty based, gonna give it a download.
>>2830512Doesn't Cairo look like this? Delhi and Lagos are similar too I think. And before you call me racist, so is Athens.
>>2830548Cairo looks like an abject shithole, but that's why it's kino. The historic centre is an absolute labyrinth which is so dense, that GPS effectively doesn't work. It's one of the most cyberpunk places I've experienced. There's random workshops making random shit, people on motorbikes criss-crossing through you, people shouting everywhere, locals selling absolutely everything, and every type of noise possible.Remember the first time cutting through that I started to panic as I was utterly lost, and I felt I could disappear into the night here. But when I just 'let go', put away the map, and larped as a local, just taking whatever street felt right, and taking my time to absorb the madness, it was an amazing experience.Lots of Cairo is like this. You just have to let let go all your 'western training' about socia norms, lose the pretense, and just blend into the city. It's hard to describe, but when you manage it, it's like steppping into another world.You've also got the British/French centre parts where you can still larp as a colonist, which is fun. There's a whole string of effectively white-only clubs and rooftop bars which feel like leftovers of the 19th century.As for racism, Friday morning is the best time to explore Cairo, before the Friday prayers. No Egyptians on the streets is a breath of fresh air. It's like having your head stuck in a bee hive, then all the bees just disappearing. The silence is deafening, and simply just being in a taxi with no traffic feels like freedom.
>>2828956>Grand Egyptian Museumit looks amazing. definitely a bucketlist museumbut i guarantee that within 10 years if not sooner it will be a crumbling chaotic mess with loads of exhibits broken, lost or stolen
>>2830548Cairo is a shit hole, with lots of really cool stuff scattered throughout
>>2830782Some great mosques, all that sandy colour that the whole city is
>>2830782There's literally an abandoned palace right in the middle of the city lol. You can pay the bawab doorman guy some loose change and just wander around:https://scenehome.com/Architecture/The-Haunting-Beauty-of-Said-Halim-Pasha-Palace-in-Downtown-CairoIt's quite hillarious given it's absolutely primo real estate, surrounded by high rise povertyblocks.30.049061377740195, 31.237332095584243
>>2830797While we're here, there's also a """Hindu Palace""" in Heliopolis, a district of Cairo. It's fucking beautifu. The spiral staircase is Harry Potter tier. >After the Baron's death in 1929 and the 1952 coup that took place in Egypt, the palace was left abandoned.>Decades later, in the 1990s, there was social revolution against many conservative values of Islam and young people began to trespass and vandalize the palace. >They were mostly doing drugs and throwing parties in a counter culture; however, the conservative backlash would insist these young adults were practicing Satanism based on previous rumors of the past and a prejudice against nontraditional values.[6]tfw you'll never attend drug counterculture parties in a Hindu palace in Cairo and get accused of Satanism by Islamists.
