one of the normal pictures I got of the people drinking tea at 9 PM, playing dominoes and doing hookah. Everyone is wearing a Galabee, their regular clothes.
This old Cairo during Friday at 4:30 PM when people are STARTING to come out and shop. It's mofo packed. 1 hr to get through 3 KM of road.
Alright, this is the FIRST step pyramid. Saqqara is one of the most extensive archaeological sites in Egypt! It was the cemetery for Memphis, the capital of Ancient Egypt. You can't go in or even go near, cause it's falling apart. It's also the name of their beer in Egypt.
No need for any introduction.
Head of a human, body of a lion which is king of the jungle (there are no tigers in egypt) and wisdom of human. It's to show people far away how powerful Egypt is.
standing 73.5 metres (241 ft) long, 6 metres (20 ft) wide, and 20.22 m (66.34 ft) high there are still no back up on how the nose is gone.
As much as this was awesome seeing it, Abu Simbel was much much more shocking.
Abu Simbel temples are two massive rock temples in Nubia, southern Egypt on the western bank of Lake Nasser about 230 km southwest of Aswan (about 300 km by road)
in 1959, they were scared of being sunk underwater after a Dam was being built so in 1964 to 68, $40 million was spent but global donations to carefully cut into large blocks (up to 30 tons, averaging 20 tons), dismantled, lifted and reassembled in a new location 65 meters higher and 200 meters back from the river, in one of the greatest challenges of archaeological engineering in history. As you can see below, the face was HAND cut to ensure it's not ruined by being cut by machines.
Pharaoh Ramesses II in the 13th century BC built this to SHOW off, the 4 people are to be Pharaoh Ramesses II during his 20s, 30s, 40, and 50s.
He's so big to show off to foreigners that he is bigger than God. After it was reallocated, they were never able to get the proper directions correct.
The sun was suppose to shine from the door INSIDE and shine right ONTO a statue of himself, but after it was reallocated, it wasn't able to do so.
A lasting monument to his queen Nefertari, the two are about a foot ball field apart.
This was from one of the temples. How do they tell if it's a girl or a boy? yup, they draw the features right at the arm pits.
how do they tell how fertile the guy is, yup, by the number of drops.
So i went on a cruise on the Nile for 3 days.
i spent my 30th bday at a resort in Hurghada, it's right at the red sea. This is like Russia's Cancun. I have never seen that many Russian Zangiefs and hot russian girls.
They had belly dancing, it was MEH.
went fishing, no i didn't have any puffy fish.
had to wake up at 3 AM to do this. First Flight of Air balloon. 3 places in the world you MUST do, one is egypt, second is Barcelona and the third is somewhere else. Australia is nice but it's all just rainforests etc.
it was fucken expensive, but well worth it for first flight.
1st flight, you get to see it during the ballons being lit at night was just mind blowing.
Seeing pyramids uptop was unique.
We are coming down to some sugar cane fields, rule # 1 NEVER EVER land on someone's land, cause they'll go after you for money for some stupid reason.
We had a team of people with a jeep chasing after us to help us deflate.
Temple of Luxor at night was different.
Shows how two people holds the power of upper and lower eypt, Lotus flour on right and paprus flower on right, these two are BIGGER than the pictures below to show power.
See all the slaves are being tied? Can you tell which ones are African and which were Egyptians... neat eh...
The Karnak Temple Complex. There were like 4-5 kings who used this temple. they kept on building and expanding. Why this dude build 165 columns was beyond me. some of the pharaohs even scratched names off previous dudes and put his name on it.