When I was belly-dancing in Tulsa....
LOL! Good job!
My mother and her friends went to Egypt (and Israel) in 1999, iirc. They liked the Nile cruise. And I think one of the Undead Thread regulars went this year with her mother.
When I was belly-dancing in Tulsa, I knew a lot of people who had been to Egypt. One lady said she went right after the shooting incident at the Pyramids, and the US Consulate gave her a private armed detachment the whole time. Maybe she was the only American tourist!
Much as I’d like to see the Cairo Museum, I can just look at the book or see it on DVD - inexpensive and safe!
You’d have to abduct me to get me to visit Egypt. Took ten plagues and a split sea to get my ancestors out.
Whut?
When I was belly-dancing in Tulsa....
I have not been to Egypt in years and would be more than hesitant to go there now. And certainly not as part of a tourist group. Only on my own or with a couple others max and spending any time out with Egyptians I know. But that is the viewpoint of a businessman and not a tourist. I always feel safer not surrounded by a large and loud group of my compatriots.
The Egyptian Museum of Antiquities is amazing (but then again, so was Easter service at a 1,600 year old Coptic church). Being able (the time I visited it was on a glass enclosed pedestal) to stand nose to nose a few inches away from the golden funeral mask of Tutankhamen and realize that it is the perfect representation of a living face with eyes that seemed alive was mind blowing.
What some do not realize is that Egyptians stand apart from other "Arabs". You can walk down a street in Cairo and see faces that could have come alive off of a tomb wall painting. This whole "destroy the pyramids" idea will, in my opinion, strike a very negative chord with most Egyptians who only wanted a change from almost sixty years of ham handed and corrupt military clique rule. Now they have that AND the Muslim Brotherhood fighting it out at the top level. Nope, not the time to play tourist on the Nile.
I have taken belly dancing lessons for the past 7 years. I do Egyptian/American Cabaret but thinking of trying Tribal.
I too would like to go see Egypt but not right now with the political situation being as it is.