Giza and the Pyramids
Today we went out of the marina gates and flagged down a taxi, asked him to take us to the pyramids and just went! It took about 2 hours to get there, in a little old Lada which really moved, through the crazy traffic of Cairo, and out to Giza. We spent a few hours wandering around, and came back with lots of photos. I think the best thing about the trip was talking to the taxi driver, Assad, who had never been to the pyramids himself! Orens Arabic is getting really good, and he can talk freely- I can understand some of it.
Oren was very impressed with the pyramids- I had been in 1982 and it seemed about the same. There were lots of ticket touts and vendors, but they all went away when we spoke Arabic to them, I guess they realised we wouldn’t be easy customers.
On the way back our fuel ran out again, this time not our fault! But the driver just managed to get to a gas station ( really gas, the taxis here are all hybrids) and we were saved again! Then we went and bought second hand jerry cans for about 3 shekels each, which we are going to fill with diesel from the petrol station for about 0.70 shekels per litre (!) and bring in so we will have loads and loads of fuel. The most expensive thing in the whole deal is the inevitable baksheesh for the marina guards, to whom we give a packet of cigarettes each. Actually they are very nice though, and didn’t arrest the dog for loitering in the marina all day while we were gone.
2 Responses to “Giza and the Pyramids”
 Comment by amos August 15th, 2008 at 11:19 am |
its breath taking to read what hapend to hasamba in the sues canal.what wold hapend if the boat was drifted to the center of the canal without engin ?i told you the engin us un relaible. |
 Comment by yasmin August 16th, 2008 at 5:50 am |
what great pictures! |
good luck on you way to africaLeave a Reply
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