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Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
Casinos, strippers, hookers.
Yes. But I don't want to go to Brillo's house.
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostWHS - I've heard the suburbs of Cairo have now mostly engulfed the pyramids, and these days they look little more impressive than the Milton Keynes point
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostWHS - I've heard the suburbs of Cairo have now mostly engulfed the pyramids, and these days they look little more impressive than the Milton Keynes point
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Originally posted by barrydidit View PostAren't the interesting bits all in the British museum anyway? WTF would you tempt fate by actually visiting the tuliphole? ..
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostI've always fancied Iran. Nice people (all the one's I've ever met). Hub of civilization. Not a place for kids though.
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I was in Sharm the week before the 2005 bombs and a month before the 2006 Dahab ones. (I must be on a list somewhere by now) and have been back a couple of times since. I've also been to London a load of times since 7/7 and flown to NYC 30+ times since 9/11.
Either get on with your life or stay indoors.
That said, Sharm itself has gradually morphed into a tacky neon-stripped sh1thole. The only reason we kept going back was for the diving which was spectacular. It's now waaay too commercialised. Sharm now is just awful.
Personally, now I'd go somewhere like Cuba for the same money and a much better experience.
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostI'm going in June. It's perfectly safe. All the terrorists are in Europe now.
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Originally posted by FatLazyContractor View PostWhat was your heart rate by the time you reached the top? Any damage done to the pyramids?
I see why they banned people from climbing them
There used to be four at Giza.
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post...Anyone been and who thinks it's safe?
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Guess it depends on your appetite for risk. With the events in Egypt in the last 12 months, I would definitely avoid it. In an unfortunate event, you have a lot of options to get out of Paris, Brussels (flights, trains, ferry, car) but in Egypt, not only dealing with language and cultural barrier, the only way out is flight. Could be stranded for days before being allowed back home.
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostI went a few days after the shootings in Luxor in 97, and I and my work colleague were one of the only people at the Pyramids, got to climb it which you couldn't normally do, place was swarming with police, safest I've ever been.
I see why they banned people from climbing them
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