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Message 1.Â
Posted by _Romeo_And_Juliet_ (U2494965) on Friday, 18th November 2005
I would like to know who has actually seen them for themselves. I have and it is well worth the trip! The Cairo museum is just marvelous and the pyramids are breath taking! I have also been to Luxor, and visited the valley of the kings and the Karnak temple! If you want a great tan and an educational trip, Egypt is the place to go!
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Message 2
Posted by Richie (U1238064) on Saturday, 19th November 2005
I have been lucky enough to have seen both the Cairo Museum, the Giza Plateau and also been to the south and Luxor, Karnak, Aswan and Abu Simbel
They were both trips of a lifetime but I would always go back given half a chance to see more of what I missed last time -
Message 3
Posted by UtdThroughandthrough (U2365910) on Sunday, 20th November 2005
I have been lucky enough to have been twice to Egypt, We notmally go to Cairo first, staying the the menahouse hotel beside the pyramids. A
After a week we normally head down the luxor for a futher week.
It is a great place to go for a holiday but definitely a holiday of a lifetime. -
Message 4
Posted by mvarennes (U2373372) on Tuesday, 22nd November 2005
Richie,
I'm planning a trip to Egypt but i know I won't have time to see everything I want. What would you recommend to see absolutely ? Is Abu Simbel a must-be-seen place ? I am looking for a cultural as well as an historical trip and have many questions I hope to find an answer to.
Is there something you would advise or recommend ?
If anybody have enjoyed a special place or visit, could you please let me know ? -
Message 5
Posted by DL (U1683040) on Tuesday, 22nd November 2005
I have been lucky enough to have seen both the Cairo Museum, the Giza Plateau and also been to the south and Luxor, Karnak, Aswan and Abu Simbel
They were both trips of a lifetime but I would always go back given half a chance to see more of what I missed last timeÂ
Me too, the most amazing trip ever. Also I went out to the earlier pyramids (the ones that went wrong), like the stepped Pyramid, and the Red Pyramid and I found them to be more interesting to visit than the Giza ones, since they are more isolated, and have fewer tourists around. Also the red Pyramid is in amazing condition, it still has most of its outer casing intact so you can really get an idea of what the Pyramids at Giza would have looked like before they were stripped of their casing. Just going around the country is probably the most enlightening thing of all, since there are quite literally bits of history scattered everywhere. You can go past a field, and in the middle of the field is a fallen statue, or over a rise in the desert to find the ground littered with offering vases as far as the eye can see. A most spectacular place, go there!!!
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Message 6
Posted by Snezzykellyie (U2608259) on Sunday, 27th November 2005
I would love t go to egypt, but I am scared. I am 10 years old and when I read a book on mummies, it made me freak out. This is the first time I have talked about it since last year.
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Message 7
Posted by Egyptlover (U2622258) on Tuesday, 29th November 2005
Hi
i went to Egypt two years ago. i would highly recommend visiting Khan el Khalili market in cairo - talk about cultural. Also Mohammed Ali Mosque - with Silver domes. If you are planning a visit to the museum in Cairo i would recommend going twice - once with a guide to show you the "must sees" and once on your own - you will never see all of it in one go.
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Message 8
Posted by ramseesIII (U2613757) on Thursday, 1st December 2005
I went in 1994 for four nights to Cairo. We took organised tours which gave us full days for about three days. Would like to go again and then make a trip to luxor.
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Message 9
Posted by Elistan (U1872011) on Thursday, 1st December 2005
Hi
I was in Egypt in 2000, and did the Giza/Luxor thing as well as snorkling in the Red Sea. Karnak temple was the most impressive site. Got there at dawn by bicycle before the tour buses arrived and had the place practically to ourselves. Then cycled up into the valley of the kings. 4o degrees with a slight incline the whole way from the Nile, Some cycle. The roll back down the hill was delicious. there was a stretch of road without tarmac just past the ticket booth, which naturally gave my wife a puncture. The strip was only about 20 yards long, but as soon as you cleared it there was bicycle repair shop. Pat, eh?
Overall a wonderful experience, although the urban sprawl reaching Giza was disheartening. Prefered the other pyramids, step, red and bent. The Necropolis was cool as well. Got a great picture of a family preparing dinner on top of sarcophagus.
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Message 10
Posted by largeauxillary (U2629821) on Friday, 2nd December 2005
Richie,
I'm planning a trip to Egypt but i know I won't have time to see everything I want. What would you recommend to see absolutely ? Is Abu Simbel a must-be-seen place ? I am looking for a cultural as well as an historical trip and have many questions I hope to find an answer to.
Is there something you would advise or recommend ?
If anybody have enjoyed a special place or visit, could you please let me know ? -
Message 11
Posted by largeauxillary (U2629821) on Friday, 2nd December 2005
Egypt is a wonderful place, the things to be seen are wonderful and one trip will never be enough. We have been to Egypt on numerous occasions,firstly as an addon to a trip to Cyprus, then for a fortnight in Luxor, then cruising with a week in luxor, then a week in luxor plus a week in Aswan, we are going back on Dec 16th and cannot wait. Abu Simbel is a wondeful sight to see and definitely worth a visit.In luxor the valley of the kings queens and nobles are a must see as are karnak temple( the sound and light) and luxor temple,really just being in Egypt and watching the sights up and down the Nile, is a wonderful experience on ite own, my advice is to GO, you will not be disappoined.
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Message 12
Posted by _Romeo_And_Juliet_ (U2494965) on Sunday, 4th December 2005
I would love t go to egypt, but I am scared. I am 10 years old and when I read a book on mummies, it made me freak out. This is the first time I have talked about it since last year.
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There is nothing to be scared of!
Egypt is a fasinating place to visit, but the mummies are just wrapped up bodies, that's all! Nothing to be scared of! -
Message 13
Posted by Nick-Rowan (U2517576) on Thursday, 8th December 2005
As far as I remember the only way to get from Aswan and cross the lake, whose pressure the dam is holding back ('lake Nasser')south to Abu Simbel is by aeroplane, as far as I remember to the cost of around 120 $. This is for security-reasons, I was told, as the egyptians do not want to have people wandering about close to lake Nasser, where many people was forcefully displaced up to the construction of the Aswan Dam in 1972.
The Aswan Dam itself was dissapointing, absolutely nothing to see - as I said the egyptians would rather prefere you just take that plane to abu Simbel. However this was not an option for me.
Mind also, that it is higly likely that people go about saying that abu simbel was great, just because they themselves have been stupid enough to pay 120 dollars, and now they want everybody else to do the same. -
Message 14
Posted by studentforever (U2670116) on Monday, 12th December 2005
Richie,
I'm planning a trip to Egypt but i know I won't have time to see everything I want. What would you recommend to see absolutely ? Is Abu Simbel a must-be-seen place ? I am looking for a cultural as well as an historical trip and have many questions I hope to find an answer to.
Is there something you would advise or recommend ?
If anybody have enjoyed a special place or visit, could you please let me know ?Â
If you are down in Aswan, go to Philae. The boat trip is great and if you go to the Sound and Light it is wonderful coming back across the lake with all the boats with their lights and the temple floodlit.
If you go to the pyramids visit the boat museum behind the great pyramid. An original boat has been rebuilt and it is fascinating.
Deir el Medina, the village of the workmen who built the tombs in the Valley of the Kings, is also worth a visit. Some of their tombs are fascinating and much less formal than the Royal tombs. I'm going back for visit number 2 -
Message 15
Posted by ma_at (U2704997) on Monday, 12th December 2005
I would love t go to egypt, but I am scared. I am 10 years old and when I read a book on mummies, it made me freak out. This is the first time I have talked about it since last year.
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theres nothing to be scared of. im 13 years old and nothing freaks me out, and im pretty scared of going to egypt too. its sounds absolutely marvelous but im a little bit afraid of flying.
i quite like the sound of how the victorians did it, the likes of Jean-François Champollion.
go by train through europe, then ferry across the mediteranian, that sounds fantastic, and its a cance to see more than egypt.
i think seeing karnak would be the best -
Message 16
Posted by mvarennes (U2373372) on Tuesday, 13th December 2005
Thanks for all your advises. I've taken good notes of them...
I am planning to go around october 2006. Annoyingly enough my partner is not much into history. I have been willing to visit Egypt for ages and would like to share that experience with other people as much into Egypt than me. Is anyone of you interested by a trip as a small group ? -
Message 17
Posted by Elistan (U1872011) on Tuesday, 13th December 2005
Mvarennes,
My partner isn't to history either, so when we went to egypt a few years back we made a deal of one week down the Nile to see the history then one week on the red sea coast snokling and scuba diving and generally mucking about in wate. It turned out to be the perfect balance for both of us, as she gained an appreciation for the antiquity of the place and I learned to swim.
Elistan
PS Believe me, I was there in March/April, and the Sea came as a welcome relief from the desert around Luxor -
Message 18
Posted by mvarennes (U2373372) on Wednesday, 14th December 2005
Thanks Elistan,
That seems to me a very good idea indeed. My swimming is good but maybe I might have the ocasion to learn surfing !
It would be however funny to organise a "fan tour" of the place with other Egyptophiles.
Thought it would give each other the possibility to learn things, even for the more cultured of us... -
Message 19
Posted by hathor_101 (U2740307) on Tuesday, 20th December 2005
that sounds fanstastic! will there be an age limit on your fan tour? because id love to join in. i dont no anything about history compared to some of the people on here, and ive learned an astounding amount just by posting and reading. a little suggestion for an item on the tour, a trip to Abu Simbel, and one to Karnak, they are top of my list if i ever go! :D
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Message 20
Posted by Astonwarwick (U2147483) on Monday, 2nd January 2006
The Pyramids at Giza are something that everyone should see for themselves at least once in their life. Their importance is immeasurable, their significance in the history of humans is great and will become ever more so as we investigate and discover their true meaning
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Message 21
Posted by Astonwarwick (U2147483) on Monday, 2nd January 2006
There is never enough time to see everything. I suggest starting in Cairo staying at the Windsor Hotel, 19 Alfybey St, (near ciname Diana) PO box 2045- 11511 Cairo. Tel: (02) 5915277- 5915810. It is a fabulous friendly family run hotel. It is the hotel that Micheal Palin stopped at during his "Around the World in 80 Days series).
Then after you have visited the museum etc catch the train down to Luxor instead of a boat or plane.
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