So the tour was great, but the thing that really made it great was our tour guide Sherif. It was an absolute pisser. A fantastic mix of facts and stories, someone who is keen to share knowledge of their country and totally full of shit all at once! It you are planning to do Egypt, I definately recommend going with 'On the go' tours and then begging to go with Sherif.
He was really good at keeping the group keen and interested and involved. whenever we got to an attraction ie. temple, pyramid, flushing toilet. he would say 'laddies and gentlemens, this is the time you have been waiting for all your livesm get excited, it's ...' and we would all cheer. At the temples and stuff, other tour guides would carry something to lift up so people could find them. Sherif said he was big enough to see, being the ex-body builder and current belly-builder that he is, and if he wanted the group to gather he would just started yelling 'group b! group b'. one of the best things though was if he noticed someone not from the group trying to listen in, he would suddenly start talking about when the aliens came from the sky and taught the egyptians to build the pyramids until they left, it was so funny. one cracker was when we were with another group (group a) in Karnak Temple. sherif and hany kept telling us about how there was a bond movie and an indiana jones movie in Karnak temple. and sherif and hany are standing at different corners and pretending to be bond and indiana jones, slow-motion running towards each other and sherif is saying 'and he runs from here, and he runs from there, and they running and they running and the running' then when they get really close you're thinking it's going to be a bond-jone show-down, but he says 'but they don't meet, coz they in different movies!' i nearly wet myself, i think it may be one of those, you had to be there things.
anyway, off to turkey this evening, will keep you posted.
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