Thursday, June 08, 2006
Pyramids
After about one hour of sleep the night before I headed out to see the Pyramids in Merowe. Amazing! You would have to be a fool to see them in Egypt when these ones are cheap, untouched and tourist free! We were pretty much left to our own devices to roam around the place accompanied by a local 14 year old solider acting as a tour guide. The "tour" was in Arabic so I was only privy to the few scraps of translated info my friends decided to ocasionally toss my way. It is about 10 degrees hotter there so I'm guessing 56ish- like standing on the surface of the sun! Because I was wearing flip flops I actually had to pull down my jeans a bit so the legs would cover my feet...
There has been a dust storm here for the last week, fun stuff. If I had a quarter for every grain of sand crammed in my sinuses, I'd be rich....
