Anyone been to Egypt?

Mark M

Mark M

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Going to the Sensatori resort in just under a month and someone mentioned to me that its worth buying our own snorkling gear before we go rather than rent the stuff they have there?

Can anyone confirm this and/or recommend something I should look to purchase? I was planning on just having a look on the big river place?

Thanks
 
Make sure you buy or rent flippers if your going to go snorking, some of the dives take you out in deep water with heavey currents and trying to keep up with the group without flippers is a nightmare!!! also very tiring.
 
Shashman said:
I heard Egypt's a riot
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Heh. :p

Well, I was there over Christmas, and it's anything but. I have no advice to offer, re the question in the original post, but I can say that this is a great time to go to Egypt. Tourism is Egypt's second largest 'industry' (I can't think of a better word), but following the revolution, the numbers had fallen from ~11million tourists in 2010, to ~1million in 2011. This means that everything was a lot cheaper, which is good for the holiday maker.

Here is a photograph of Hosni Mubarak's party headquarters, as of the end of 2011.

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Right next to the Cairo Museum, which is adjacent to Tahrir Square. It was a great time to be in Cairo. :)
 
I would actually find it much more interesting to visit the sites associated with the Spring Uprising, than to do all the typical tourist trap-y stuff (camel riding, pyramids, Nile cruise, etc).

Then again my idea of an awesome holiday would be North Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, places steeped in contemporary history and quite exciting/dangerous, which is obviously not everyone's cup of tea :p
 
Justin said:
If you enjoy explosive diarrhoea, rude Arabs and general backwardness then I'm sure it's lovely.
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I **** like a baby from the day after I got there until the week after I got home.

I had never had the runs before (in living memory) and the belly pain was awful. Be VERY careful about putting your hands in your mouth!
 
Justin said:
If you enjoy explosive diarrhoea, rude Arabs and general backwardness then I'm sure it's lovely.
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I didn't find them very rude, a little *pushy* in the sales department though, but I quickly got used to that, the explosive diarrhoea was another thing all together. I had a diving session later the day it all come on, I was praying I wasn't going to have an accident in my wetsuit.

The fantastic snorkling and scuba diving made up for it all though :)
 
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