Into Africa and the Middle East---Egypt, U.A.E. travel (3)

Day 3: the Cairo-Luxor-CAIRO--LUXOR visit pyramid + Khan Khalili market shopping + overnight train morning MORING CALL is 7: 00 am, but because I tend to old mill, the fear of time too late, I've come to the phone with alarm clock and 6: 30 morning call. Night quite well, morning mental state is very good. Think of last night to see the scenery of the pool, take advantage of the nice time in the morning, then look at the past. Walk out the door, the Sun has not completely out, and found that the temperature quite cold in the morning, immediately returned to the room to put on his coat. Morning air is clean, the birds are called, the breeze is blowing, good morning, a long time since I had this feeling, previously in domestic work, morning time is the most busy, often in order to catch the company bus, empty stomach to squeeze in a crowded BUS, it will be like this morning, I feel the beauty of the morning. In the photo shoot pool, first came to the restaurant to enjoy meal Egypt breakfast. In line with the taste of all over the world gourmet aspirations, I put every kind of food, try again, vegetable salad, bread, beverages, eggs, pancakes, sausage, boiled eggs. Taste the best personal feel is butter bread and croissant, really sweet, taste is very rich. Compared to Shanghai's brand of Bread bakery sold (in Shanghai sells bread prices are not cheap), really no comparison. After a meal, go back to the room with your tidy, 8: 30 to the lobby. Check-out, and get off at the entrance to bid farewell to our 2 Egypt man, holding a local musical instruments and singing local songs, Hey, look at them so buy, give them a box of essential balm, gosh, they sing more cheerful. This morning's trip is important to visit the ancient Egypt symbol of civilization: Egypt Pyramids (GIZA PYRAMIDS Giza) 60-Egyptian pounds, the King of ancient Egypt Pyramids themselves built mausoleum. The great pyramid 【 (also known as the Khufu) 】 is the fourth dynasty second King Hufu mausoleum built in b.c. 2690 years, it was said that 10 million people took 20 years to be completed. The opening of the channel inside the pyramid, the channel design sophistication, the calculation precision, stunning. It is one of the seven wonders of the world's oldest and remnants of buildings, has spent more than 20 years to build, was completed in b.c. 2560. The second pyramid is hufu son Harvard la King's Tomb, built 2650 years BC, lower than the former, but 3 m more perfect spectacular architectural forms, tower built temples and other ancillary buildings and famous of Sphinx. Third pyramid is hufu grandson King door card UL was built around 2600 years BC. At that time was the fourth dynasty fading era, pyramid building began to decline. Door card UL pyramid of height suddenly dropped to 66 meters, the internal structure of chaos. After listening to the end of the tour are generally talk is all free time-taking pictures and close touch Khufu. Because of the lack of time, the Guide does not recommend everyone to visit the gold inside the pyramids hufu (USD20 at your own expense). Because these three pyramids are far apart, the guide takes us on a coach, around this 3 pyramids Rao a circle, in a tour that takes the best of local, the car stopped, we assumed a variety of modelling, and the three pyramids to a close. Then coaches and we sent to 【 Sphinx 】 Department, it is a famous rock statues, is the most representative one of ancient monuments, the image is a supine position with the head of a lion. Sphinx facial reference Harvard, body as lion, high 22 meters, length 57 meters statue of an ear is 2 metres high. The whole statue in addition to the lion claw, all carved by a natural rock. As the stone osteoporosis, and experienced a 4000 years of age, the whole statue weathering severe. The other face serious breakage in gateway to Sphinx in front of the channel, there is a wish pool, regardless of whether there is a cure, I was wishing anyway. The attractions of hawker really many, don't walk road, hawker pull, to sell you something, I actually quite like to buy an Arab scarf, hawker's asking price is high, prices drop down. Return to the coach, a hawker stare at our tour guide, the guide help do the translation sells something to us, we bought the coin set Egypt/USD2, Star tablets 20/1USD, (quantity, but quality rough). After lunch at noon and in the afternoon we follow the Guide, came a flavor shop, flavor is something that is unique to Egypt (flavor is one of the main ingredients of perfume) world famous perfume companies also tend to Egypt order flavor. In essence the shop, we introduce staff fluent Chinese quite, first to explain the difference between essence and perfume, spot flavor into perfume spray, for everybody. But the price is very high, 200ML/bottle, a total of 4 bottles, an up sell, USD150/set. MY GOD。 It's a good thing that I see on the Internet before starting their travels, they deal with USD70/set, and some deliberation, we agreed a counter-offer to USD70/set, because our team members, the last transaction in a set of USD75/with sent four small perfume bottles. Buy out of perfume, with a guided us to the Middle East's largest Bazaar--Khan. Khalili market. In the car, tours start telling us that point, the market was mixed, and if no sincerity to buy something, don't ask price and also price, once you price, shopkeepers agreed, you bought, you will have trouble. He will be at the roadside a COFFER shop waiting for us, if we look tired, you can go to him, he will call the characteristics we eat snacks in Egypt: Egypt hamburgers. Laughing, our coaches arrived Khan Khalili market. Khan. Khalili market next to the famous aizi Har mosque and Hussein mosque. Mosque building appearance really very beautiful, busy taking pictures, I almost couldn't keep up with the rest. Khan Khalili Bazaar, personal feeling a bit like ShanghaiOf the city, in the market of Khan. Harry from distribution in dozens of small streets and lanes of hundreds of individual shops, markets, narrow roads, streets full of small shops selling gold and silver jewelry, main, copper plate, stone, paper's art, fur and other traditional handicrafts Egypt, attract tourists from all over the world. At the entrance there are 2 tourist police sitting chatting, entered the market, Egypt small traders were quite warm, one of the "HELLO, Hello, Hello" Hello to you, you go to his shop to see things. Many commercial species, but each shop selling things are very similar, do not know what the election, by the way, shop around, ask price. See Egypt features refrigerator posts and key ring, I asked 3 outlets, and finally with an overview of the shopkeeper price of USD3-4/a, finally a counter-offer to USD1.5/a. When we go to the innermost one shop, the shop owner know what reasons, and another dispute, 2 personal skirted erecting a little terror, scenes, we leave at once. Personally think that this market in confusingly, preferably a stroll around a few people, MM are the best bargains that don't let Egypt men eat your bean curd, safety is most important. Back to COFFER shop collection point, because the Guide recognizes the shopkeeper, WC on, there is no tipping, we take turns on the WC, gaps in the wait in line, I see the COFFER shop inside the kitchen, very small, compared to the mess, a shop assistant busy in juice, another waitress kept in the delivery of the beverage, hard. This is the local ordinary people a true portrayal of Egypt. I mentioned yesterday to buy local StELLA beer guide has helped us bought, bought the Guide 2 cans of beer, ready to drink in the evening. Because the rules give train attendant service tip USD1/person, we have consolidated to the team leader. In 18: 00 we enter the station platform, the entire railway station scene shabby, because Egypt train rate is very low, the train is delayed or early are common, so follow the Guide, just waiting for the train, not the train waited for us. Waiting for the process, we see that there is a train station, the train had stopped, Egypt locals would bust the rushing to get in, a very dangerous action, (feel like making a film in the camera), I regret very much. Not that we are on the train? looks really and torn and dirty, the guide answers makes me worry that we eliminated is the tourist train, certainly stronger than this. In boring wait, the brilliant tour took him to speak to us in the past, he is a graduate of the University in the Chinese Department of Egypt, he did our President Hu Jintao's visit to Egypt during the whole translation, in order to prove that he said is true, he and a group photo of Hu Jintao shines for everyone to see, as he said. Suddenly everyone interested in hanging up, we respond to say we are proud to this journey to Egypt, should be able to get the President's reception standards. Chat with a tour guide, he put his personal life situation will speak to us, the words of Egypt in revealing some of the traditional ideas and Chinese think the same, so that countries although there are differences among cultures, but some culture is an intersection. Let us feel the BIG SURPRISE is: Red tie Assistant with his family (wife and 2 kids) came to us and the tour off, 2 kids (1 male and 1 female) very nice, especially the little girl long very beautiful. Couldn't give her photographs. Red tie Assistant come to dinner tour brought him to eat on the train, it seems that they both feelings deep! as on the platform waiting for the tourist train of countries more and more tourists, wait, I'm numb, tourist train finally into the platform, we went to our specified trains, this is my first time to stay overnight on the train, car design is clever, 1 room for 2 persons, the day is sofa chairs, night waiter, such as train with his hands the spread down the KEY, and then put the following sofa beds, in turn, become the bed, and I was dumbfounded. In the wink of sofa beds 2 bed into, each car has a separate faucet and wash basin, put things in cabinets, climb to the upper berth use small ladder, in such a small space, able to integrate all the amenities are included, not easy. With Windows, but because it is the night, the outside can not see anything. The only regret is the WC is a problem, every few car share a public toilet, men and women mixed, train at high speed, very rickety, standing for unstable, urinal can also, if you want to say, a long time in the stool, I estimate that enough of closure. Dinner is available on the train, train attendants will distribute the dinner to each compartment, objectively speaking, there is also a dinner, rice, beef, fish, vegetables, cookies, bread, butter, etc, plus our own band of salt chicken, ham, previously bought StELLA beer, this dinner was really rich Ah, the original intention to release the stomach for dinner, but considering that the toilet was not easy, convergence a lot. Tonight will not be able to take a bath is a problem, you can only wash face and brush your teeth. Today the day you play very tired, no matter so much, before bed. Train driving voice still quite big, shaking also quite powerful, I think I'm going to sleep, to sleep, just to dawn. A night on the train just past.