Addai - it doesn't port the ring to Awakening yet, but that's on my todo list. =)
Happy birthday Raiynsong! Go celebrate with Zevran!!
Yep Ramante, lived in Egypt (Ma'adi Cairo) for a few months over winter two years in a row.
It was really amazingly fun. Went to alexandria's underground flooded tombs, did the tourist thing in luxor of course - camped in the sinai colored canyon near the burning bush, smoked ..cigarettes with the local bedouins after my jeep broke down near Sharm el Sheikh, waiting for a tow truck. We talked tribe stuff - Muscogee to Bedouin via broken english & my really bad egyptian arabic.. lol. Rode an arabian stallion in the desert for a day.... took refuge in an ancient coptic monastery during a vicious sandstorm and had a nice cozy lunch (rice soup) with the monks.
Randomly ran across a Roman era port covered in smashed pottery from an old trade dock (back when the area flooded from the nile, but now it was reclaimed by the sands)... Camped in el Faiyum oasis, surrounded by hyenas which is, btw, very unsettling, not to mention it rained in the Sahara the next day out...
Learned to bargain in the khan el khalili market eventually, after much practice. Was there for the bombing, too, though not close, several alleys away... was there for the eid sacrifices, which is disturbing if you have never seen such sacrifices in the streets..
It was insanely amazing. every day it was something new. and then i'd come back to the apartment and watch polish music tv or arabic soap operas... only channels i had aside from the religious ones!
If you have a chance to go, don't pass it up. it's quiet inexpensive. i think i spent more on the plane tickets than anything. I even stayed in the king's former palace (now a hotel in luxor) for like $60 a night for a suite. ridiculous. oh yeah, and if you go... just tell your cabbie where you want to go, close your eyes and tuck your head between your knees. don't look around. i promise it's for the best... you really don't want to know how you're getting from point A to B!
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