Picking up from last time –
Okay, I’ve been kinda down on Egypt, so before we get to anything else that wasn’t great, let’s start with my favorite attraction which was Pompey’s Pillar.
It’s not that the pillar itself had any special significance to me. It’s more just that I met this SUPER nice couple there. They were celebrating the husband’s 40th birthday. They seemed so fun and I loved their vibe.
We talked for a little while about their trip and everything. And I tried to take the perfect photo of them, using the panorama (up and down) and everything, so I could get the whole pillar in there. They seemed to really like it, so I hope they did!
I also stopped at Fort Qaitbey, which was sprawling and nice.
Then I took a little boat ride around it. And then it was funny because one of the guys offered to take my picture, but he put it on portrait mode, so the castle in the background is like extraordinarily blurry.
And I guess it was nice of him to offer to take a pic at all (although I was paying him to take me around haha), but yeah, just practically everything in this Egypt trip went a little wrong.
I also went to the Catacombs. (Side note: I’m lucky I’m very able-bodied. Egypt has a ton of unstable surfaces and winding places. I don’t know how I would’ve gotten around had I had any issues walking.
I’m sure people figure it out. But just FYI, the better health you are, the better, in Egypt, it seems to me.)
Also, I’d been warned before I went that there were gonna be dogs everywhere, and to maybe even get a rabies shot.
I planned the trip so last minute, I ultimately didn’t have time for a rabies shot. But man were there absolutely dogs EVERYWHERE.
Dogs outside my hotel in Giza. Dogs on the street. Dogs in the catacombs (everywhere you turned in the catacombs).
(Dogs are like my worst nightmare.)
Egypt is not my country, really, I don’t think…
Nonetheless, I’m there for a few more days!
BUT I did, at my hotel, have awesome food at the hotel restaurant. So, that was really nice.
(And they had these cool fancy old hotel elevators on some kind of pulley(?) system or something.)
The night, overall was pretty good [except for arguing with the company who’d sent me the driver, but we’ll get into that later].
And I’ll talk about scuba diving (what I went to Alexandria for) tomorrow!