tourlourou 0 #1 September 22, 2002 Hello has all, I am has the research of a contact for Hurghada in Egypt. There has t it a drop zone has this place ? Have you a link web has to propose me ?Tourlourou www.wuza.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
QuickDraw 0 #2 September 22, 2002 Hehe...you said t it Dontcha just love them translators. -- Hope you don't die. -- I'm fucking winning Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tourlourou 0 #3 September 22, 2002 It's more good of my englich writting !Tourlourou www.wuza.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #4 September 22, 2002 Never heard of anyone jumping in Egypt except the military and they don't seem to do that very well.... The beer there is either CRAZY expensive for American or European or the Egyptian beer is cheap but tastes a lot like a camels ass. Flying Chicken is pretty good and Pizza hut is a life saver. Hope you like Paprika on your Pizza. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VisionAir 0 #5 September 22, 2002 Quote the Egyptian beer is cheap but tastes a lot like a camels ass. Hmmm..... Can't say that I've tasted a camel's ass before but since it sounds like you have, I'll take your word for it. Huh?!? What cloud?!? Oh that!!! That's just Industrial Haze Alex M. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #6 September 22, 2002 QuoteCan't say that I've tasted a camel's ass before but since it sounds like you have Nahh....but I have smelled enough camels to know their ass wouldn't taste very good... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
helicam 0 #7 September 22, 2002 QuoteNever heard of anyone jumping in Egypt except the military and they don't seem to do that very well.... The beer there is either CRAZY expensive for American or European or the Egyptian beer is cheap but tastes a lot like a camels ass. Flying Chicken is pretty good and Pizza hut is a life saver. Hope you like Paprika on your Pizza. Has Clay been doing some travelling in Africa? I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #8 September 22, 2002 QuoteHas Clay been doing some travelling in Africa? It's been a little while ago but yes....I got really drunk on some awful beer and toured the pyramids. I also got a bunch of "Illegal" pics of an air base. Including the AAA and SAM sites. Got some cool sunrise pics of the pyramids from my hotel balcony. Like I said earlier though...I didn't leave anything there and DON'T plan on ever going back. It smells bad, the food sucks, the beer is cheap but tastes terrible, and good luck finding chicks!!!! In the immortal words of Austin Powers "It just ain't my bag baby." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blueshrew 0 #9 November 29, 2002 I know this thread is old, but I can't help wondering when you were in Egypt? The old Stella sucked, but now it's been privatized, and there's also Sakkara, which the Germans like, and I think they can talk. And the food, man where have you been??? The most disgusting fast food there is Pizza Hut. Egypt is a country you will love if you know how to get around, which you obviously didn't. And the general mentality is, if you're not friendly to us, f*** you. You know what? My friends and I thought the same about the food in a small town in FL, and had to drive an hour every evening to find something that you wouldn't call fat with a speck of food. Oh and BTW, there are plenty of gorgeous chicks, you just have to know which bar/club is the place to be on a given day of the week. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #10 November 29, 2002 QuoteI can't help wondering when you were in Egypt? January 1993. QuoteThe most disgusting fast food there is Pizza Hut Yep...it was OK if you stuck to just pepperoni. KFC or the other chicken place was much better. QuoteEgypt is a country you will love if you know how to get around, which you obviously didn't Didn't like anything about it. (Except maybe the tangerines. They do grow some very tasty tangerines on the banks of the Nile. Or that hot mint tea. That was good too.) I got around just fine. There are taxis and those little mini buses everywhere. Like I said...the place is dirty and it smells bad. The only reason anyone was "nice" to me is because they wanted money. Make it abundantly clear they aren't getting any and suddenly they don't hang around. I just don't like the Middle East. Period. I didn't leave anything there and I won't go back unless it's for "business." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blueshrew 0 #11 November 29, 2002 QuoteQuoteI can't help wondering when you were in Egypt? January 1993. Do you realize that was 10 years ago? I think a trip anywhere 10 years ago doesn't really give you a basis for travel advice. Take Berlin for example, if you'd been there 10 years ago, you'd probably be telling me to not venture to the east part for anyhting. Look at it now, the east is THE place to go out, eat, go clubbing. The west part is pretty sad compared to it. Quote QuoteThe most disgusting fast food there is Pizza Hut Yep...it was OK if you stuck to just pepperoni. KFC or the other chicken place was much better. Back then there were a couple of nice bistros, cafes and restaurants, catering for most tastes. You just didn't know where to look. Now there are loads of great places to get something to eat, they just don't have huge neon signs to attract attention. Quote QuoteEgypt is a country you will love if you know how to get around, which you obviously didn't There are taxis and those little mini buses everywhere. Like I said...the place is dirty and it smells bad. The only reason anyone was "nice" to me is because they wanted money. Make it abundantly clear they aren't getting any and suddenly they don't hang around. I'm not talking about modes of transportation, rather about how to find out where to go. It is a poor country with a lot of slums, if you don't like slums, avoid them. If anyone you ever met wanted money from you, you obviously only went to the touristy places. A lot of Americans I met there just went to the American University in Cairo, chatted with someone, and had them show them around. Egyptians are a very open people, and always have time for others and do like foreigners a lot. Unfortunately the population is devided in poor and rich, which mostly translates to conservative and "modern". I you want to go out at night for instance, you probably just have to grab someone dressed in jeans, a t-shirt and sunglasses and ask them what to do. But apart from Cairo, there are some amazing landscapes in the oases and Sinai. And there are very few places you can compare to underwater egypt. I've been taking friends down with me for the last four years, and they loved it. (hurghada, of course, is a huge slum) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jraf 0 #12 November 29, 2002 One book by Clay Pawers: "Egypt and the penis enlarger pump - it's my bag baby" (Clay I assume you get it?) jraf Me Jungleman! Me have large Babalui. Muff #3275 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jraf 0 #13 November 29, 2002 (Nadine Du alte Klumpe ich mach Dir gleich dicke Ohren) I would understand that the small town in Florida you are mentioning would be ZHills? You mean you don't like the fine food at the Clock restaurant? C'mon? jraf Me Jungleman! Me have large Babalui. Muff #3275 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #14 November 29, 2002 Quote Take Berlin for example I don't see the comparison. I don't remember any walls coming down in Egypt. Let me guess...with a last name like Farid you are Egyptian? I think that might change things just a little. I'm not judging Egypt. I'm just being honest. I have been several places in the Middle East and I just don't care for them. Period. South America, Central America or Asia.....not problem. I have enjoyed everywhere I went. There's just nothing I found desireable in that entire region. In South and Central America I think the people, the food, and the beer were awesome. In Asia the lifestyle and culture is pretty cool. Some of the food is OK but it wasn't high on the list. In the middle eastern countries I haven't found a single thing that interests me. Not the culture, the sights, food, people......nothing. Sorry....I just didn't like it. It's just my .02C and really doesn't mean shit in the big picture.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jraf 0 #15 November 29, 2002 I must agree, underwater Egypt is hard to compare. Specially the historic sites flooded by the Assuan Dam. (Jraf running away in panick as Nadine is throwing leftover pieces of the Berlin wall at him)jraf Me Jungleman! Me have large Babalui. Muff #3275 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #16 November 29, 2002 Quote underwater Egypt is hard to compare Didn't get to see that. All I did for tourist stuff there was the Museum downtown and the Pyramid complex. Oh...and I went and rode some little tiny nags around in the desert that the Egyptians kept swearing were finely bred horses. The Simaramese (SP?) hotel down by the US Embassy was pretty Mac Daddy. Bunch of disgustingly rich Saudis hanging out there from what I was told by my "guide." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jraf 0 #17 November 29, 2002 Funny...my youngest brother just called. Apparently he bought an old Mercedes S-Class from and old Arab (pretty significant community in Pittsburgh, PA) and it came with the dude's collection of Middle Eastern music CDs. Want to refresh memories and listen to some, Clay? jraf Me Jungleman! Me have large Babalui. Muff #3275 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #18 November 29, 2002 Quote Want to refresh memories and listen to some, Clay? NO!!! See...something I forgot. The obnoxious Arab music. Except we did have a tandem student a few months ago that put a pretty cool Arab rap/techno type song on his video. First one I ever liked. That Arab stuff is worse than the Korean music. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blueshrew 0 #19 November 29, 2002 Actually reading the post, will tell you where the comparison is. My point was that having been there 10 years ago does not give you a basis to give travel advice for today. I'm not telling you to go to Egypt, but people who go there now, seem to come year after year, so go figure. There are always people who don't enjoy one place or the other, but to me it seems like you're basing your opinion on a trip 10 years ago, and purlease, if you wanted to go out in a hotel, I rest my point. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blueshrew 0 #20 November 29, 2002 BTW, for your info, in Egypt there are Egyptians and Arabs. You may very well offend an Egyptian by telling them they're an Arab. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pack40 0 #21 November 29, 2002 Check their page maybe they can help you out where to jump in Egypt. http://www.idf.il/english/organization/paratroopers/paratroopers.stm OVER Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jraf 0 #22 November 29, 2002 Clay, I strongly disagree!!! There is NOTHINGworse than Korean music. I will sooner listen to Alla Pugacheva (Staso, pop and others will know, and trust me you don't ever want to hear her, let alone see her) than to Korean music. Once I cintemplated suicide in a Korean restaurant. The food was perfect, just the music jraf Me Jungleman! Me have large Babalui. Muff #3275 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blueshrew 0 #23 November 29, 2002 Flooded historic sites: you're talking about Philae, which has been excavated ages and ages ago, you now go to visit it by cute little boats. Was ist denn eine Klump?? edit: I think I will use the spell checker then Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jraf 0 #24 November 29, 2002 Robert, I'm sure you know of Alla Pugacheva, care to comment for Clay?jraf Me Jungleman! Me have large Babalui. Muff #3275 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blueshrew 0 #25 November 29, 2002 If it makes you feel any better, I run like hell, when I hear (I will call it oriental) oriental music. Though there are a few great Arabic songs. Assia (Algerian, I think) sings a kind of R&B that excellent. edit: oh man!! I wouldn't make it for very lon as a secretary, seeing as how many typos I keep making Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
