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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Horse Back Riding in Egypt



A few weeks ago I was in Cairo Egypt and wow was it an experience for me. The weather was pretty hot, not as hot as Saudi Arabia but really hot anyway. I always love travelling to Arabic countries for the food though. They have hummus and bread to die for! Their fruits are also reaaaallly good! I went there on business and my partners there were extremely hospitable for me, a few nights we were able to go out and eat dinner on the Nile river, watch people smoke the hubbibly bubbily which is what they call the hukka. It was also interesting for me work in a place that is so hot that they stop working around 4pm and sleep til 8 or 9pm. Everyone then gets up around 930pm and eats dinner and stays up til around 3 or 4am before they go to bed. Everyone does this also, whole families with little kids also! Eating on the Nile and horse back riding next to the pyramids are a few things that not too many people are able to say they have done! For the pyramids, I never realized that there are more than 128 pyramids in Egypt and that each took about 30 years to build! The larger size ones also contain more than 3 million blocks which blew me away! Below is a short video from my trip. The music that is playing is also from a new artist in Egypt and has some local instruments which sound pretty cool I thought. Hope you enjoy the video!