Mummy Train

Today was our last day in Cairo. The entire group was quite sleepy, as we spent the evening prior on an overnight train from Luxor, and I suspect the train driver was a trainee who definetly needed the practice. The train continuously came to abrubt screeching halts throughout the voyage, and we were convinced a derailment was imminent. "He better have run over scores of animals last night to justify those skills" I insisted. Though I must be truthful in admitting that our lack of sleep could be the direct result of Cam, Linds, and I pulling off all of our bedsheets and wrapping ourselves into mummy outfits to scare the pants off our fellow passengers. All explinations aside, we were tired the next day and our trusly defective tour guide "Mo" whisked us off to the Cairo citadel. This tourist site was actually quite impressive and we all enjoyed the cooler temperatures, due to the thickest layer of smog me, or my lungs have ever seen/enhaled. Perhaps the highlight of this day was at the Citadel, was when Mo began lecturing us about the Gihad (sp?) in a suprisingly supportive tone. Mo then dropped us off, slash abandonded us at Cairo's main market place, and we spent the next few hours fending off the locals, and took a cab back to the hotel for an afternoon nap. Later that night I opted out of an evening dinner and whirling dervish show for and evening of MTV Arabia and apple fanta, as there is only so much whirling a person can tolerate.

At this very moment were are driving via semi-AC'ed bus to the Sinai penninsula to go to Nweiba. Here we are scheduled to clim Egypt's highest mountain, which is the site where the 10 commandments were first learned. We intend to see if we can break all 10 before reaching the summit.

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