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Local Customs: Whirling Dervish
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  • Written by sue_stone on Feb 1, 2005
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    • A Whirling Dervish is a unique dance - a "religious ceremony transcending into performing art".

    It is a dance performed by an order of the Islamic faith, and it involves the dancer whirling around and around continuously for minutes.

    The dancer starts off slowly turning and gets faster as the music picks up pace. They spin and spin, lifting parts of their costumes up as they go.

    It goes on for so long that you start to feel dizzy just watching - you wait with baited breath for them to fall over.....but they don't...they keep spinning and whirling.

    Amazing!

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    Local Customs: Shisha Anyone!?
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  • Updated by sue_stone on Feb 7, 2005
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    • A very popular custom in Egypt is smoking a shisha.

    A shisha is a small packet containing a rolled tobacco leaf, a small amount of molasses, and some apple flavour.

    This is put in a type of 'water pipe' under a burning charcoal. You then inhale and the smoke passes through the water, cooling it.
    The cooled smoke picks up the flavours of the shisha.

    There are shisha parlors all over the place where people (mainly men) get together with friends for a quiet smoke and a turkish coffee.

    I didn't try it, but wish I had.

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    angiebabe Fri Jun 15, 2007 11:48 UTC
     Hi, interesting to see yr travels around egypt. im still yet to get there!    		yumyum Sat Jan 6, 2007 18:21 UTC
     I only saw Abu Simbel from far away swimming past on the ferry from Sudan.
    roamer61 Fri Jul 21, 2006 14:34 UTC
     What a marvelous page on Aswan. I like your Nubian pictures. How about some more photos of Abu Simbel.    		lvdpiet Sun Jun 11, 2006 10:33 UTC
     While building my Egypt pages, I went to yours, and I think they are magnificent! Thanks!
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