[IrishPennant]

I did, Silverleaf...it was worth doing when I often think back on it. I was on a BrightStar operation in 1985 I think...got a day of liberty in Cairo...Paid, I think, $10 US to climb hands and knees up a shaft to a large square room where there was a single florescent bulb lighting up black painted walls and an Egyptian explaining what "used: to be in the room...then a crab walk, feet first, back down the shaft.

Irritating then...but now that I am almost 50, I can't tell you how many people I have taken pride in telling them I did it.

I also remember paying $5 bucks for a camel ride and the local national asking me to pay $10 more to get the camel to kneel down so I could get off...wrong question for a Jar head - yes it was high, but heck, so was $10 bucks.

What wasn't high is the little Egyptian kid with the galvanized bucket of Egyptian beer bottle for $1 US each. After three months in the sand and no beer, that was golden!!!!

All in all, yeah, I would go inside again if I had never done so in the past....

[silverleaf]

Hey I was there for Bright Star too! Maybe in 1985! CENTCOM?
Small world.

Yeah, I also sat on a mangy camel and had a couple of big guys stand by in case the Egyptian tried to shake me down for more money to get off the camel ... :-)

I was just telling my kids tonight it’s sad to think they may never get to visit there ... bad stuff happened since the last time I was in Cairo, and more to come in the years ahead, I fear