| Page Views: 223 Last Visit to Luxor: February, 2008 | Convoy to Luxor - UNDER CONSTRUCTION by lotharlerch - last update: Mar 7, 2008 |
Too short for the Temples, too long for the shops The weather in Hurghada was not always that warm as it could be expected so we decided to go for a one day excursion to Luxor. For that one has two options. Either to fly or to go by bus. The disadvantage of the flight is that it is not available every day and that it is often fully booked. Even better would be a 2 days excursion. And the best of all undoubtedly to go to Luxor on a Nile Cruise.
Because of fundamentalist Islamist psychopaths who believe to come straight to the paradise where they will have 70 fat blond virgins for their disposal if they go with a belt of dynamite into a crowd of tourists to kill themselves plus many tourists (who will go to hell according to their imaginations) Egypt feels obliged to give these tourists a monstrous protection (instead to do anything against the recruitment of these psychopaths). That means to concentrate all tourists in a big convoy of buses with a quasi-military escort. This way even semi-intelligent psychopaths could easily develop far more efficient strategies to kill more tourists at once because they are all in these buses. It could yield a far better rate of dead tourists - plus escorting tourist police - per volunteer suicider.
I have to confess that I did not feel better seeing all these heavily armed policemen on top and at the end of the convoy of innumerable buses going through the mountains of the Arab Desert where there are more than enough perfect places to hide and just to wait until the least protected middle part of the convoy is passing by and to attack it. The convoy indeed looks on this part of the way more like an invitation for an attack than anything else. The picture changes when the convoy reaches the Nile valley. Here, in one of the most densely populated areas of the world are more than enough police and other gunmen in their nightshirts watching the convoy this way paralyzing all other local activities for the time the convoy needs to pass the area. The only ones who are really well protected are the policemen temselves sitting in their concrete shelters or behind massive shields of steel. It looks all at least very martial. |
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ukirsari Mon Jul 28, 2008 06:46 UTC
when we're there, we do independently using bicycles. but have something similar experience with yours: we ask about direction of medinat habu and they're pointing outalabaster shops!!! very funny! | lotharlerch Thu Apr 17, 2008 21:11 UTC
The problem is that Egypt itself does not know coins, even the smallest denominations are paper. But if a tourist has to pay for something 7 € and gives a 10 € note the Egyptians would need inevitably € coins to change... That works perfectly in Turkey. | mara235 Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:26 UTC
the locals who want you to change coins to notes or to Egyptian money don't have anywhere to change them. Banks do not take foreign coins.....think of the trouble sending them back to Europe! | globetrott Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:03 UTC
a good start with 7 tips, den Bäcker mach ich dann auch ;-) |
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