4/12/98

Salaam alekum you camel spitting infidels

Well, dudes and dudettes, we’ve been travelling in Egypt the last few weeks, and what can say, except Egypt is totally amazing!!!!

Now that we’ve seen rest of the world’s archaeology, we can safely say that being in Egypt is just way too cool for school, dude!!!! We’re in the cradle of civilisation here… but it actually smells like the nappy of civilisation!!!

Anyway, we flew into Cairo and met up with Kendall, a lovely lass who we travelled with in Bolivia and instantly found out that she was worth 100 000 camels, whilst Avril was only worth 50 000…. looks like I’ll be holding onto her until I get a better deal…

Well, we thought that while we were here, we might as well mosey like geezers down to Giza to see the pyramids and honestly, despite all the photo’s we’ve seen, words cannot describe how awesome it is to actually be standing in front of the sphinx with the 2 massive pyramids looming in the background!!!!

A totally amazing experience except for being hassled the shit out of by camel drivers and groping Arabs… We soon learnt that although there are nice Egyptians, all the obnoxiously rude arseholes live at Giza!!!!

We did the standard camel ride around the pyramids despite being told that the camel drivers are rort beasts…. and sure enough, we had a huge fight when the tosser wouldn’t let us off the camel until we paid him heaps of money… Fortunately, the police intervened before we went some serious biffo!!!!! Continue reading →