Comments on: Pyramids! http://theglobalguy.com/world-travels/middle-east/pyramids Henry Malmgren's escapades around the globe. Fri, 04 May 2012 04:13:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Roger AC Williams http://theglobalguy.com/world-travels/middle-east/pyramids/comment-page-1#comment-809 Roger AC Williams Tue, 22 Nov 2005 01:11:29 +0000 http://www.theglobalguy.com/antarctica-2004/5000-years-of-history/#comment-809 I visited these. They were roped off but you could climb up a bit to enter the galleries inside them, which was fun. Cairo's smog was appalling. I also visited some beautiful mosques in Islamic Cairo (at least you can go inside; in some countries you can't, a stupid rule!); for some backsheesh, they even took me up some minarets! I nearly got run over trying to walk there; their traffic is insane. I toured much of Egypt through local tours organized by contacts from the cheap Hotel Berlin I stayed at (a steer from Lonely Planet). I managed to visit Sinai, including climbing both Mt. Sinai (Jebel Musa) and Mt. Katherine (Jebel Katerina) which most people don't know about and the tours don't go to. I had to leave my passport and hire a guide; Egypt's red tape is incredible. It's the high point of Sinai and Egypt, well worth the 1000-m. (3280.83') climb. I got to Abu Simbel and took tour boats down the Nubian Sea (Lake Nasser) and the Nile. It was the fall after "9-11" and everything was cheap and uncrowded. Great trip--I also visited Tunisia, Malta and E. Germany including narrow-ga. steam! I visited these. They were roped off but you could climb up a bit to enter the galleries inside them, which was fun. Cairo’s smog was appalling. I also visited some beautiful mosques in Islamic Cairo (at least you can go inside; in some countries you can’t, a stupid rule!); for some backsheesh, they even took me up some minarets! I nearly got run over trying to walk there; their traffic is insane.

I toured much of Egypt through local tours organized by contacts from the cheap Hotel Berlin I stayed at (a steer from Lonely Planet). I managed to visit Sinai, including climbing both Mt. Sinai (Jebel Musa) and Mt. Katherine (Jebel Katerina) which most people don’t know about and the tours don’t go to. I had to leave my passport and hire a guide; Egypt’s red tape is incredible. It’s the high point of Sinai and Egypt, well worth the 1000-m. (3280.83′) climb. I got to Abu Simbel and took tour boats down the Nubian Sea (Lake Nasser) and the Nile. It was the fall after “9-11″ and everything was cheap and uncrowded. Great trip–I also visited Tunisia, Malta and E. Germany including narrow-ga. steam!

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