Rosie went to egypt land...

[Black Rose]

Egypt is very interesting but also dangerous for any solo or single travelling women.

Glad I was invited for that trip from my belly dance teacher, who was several times in Cairo and Hurghada. She knows a lot about the mentality and so I felt much more safer to travel around with her. During that time I could have been married 31 times, it was sometimes really disturbing how the men came across streets and tried to pull me aside or inside some stores or houses. Thanks god we had always a travel guide with us, who protected us.



But the landscape is very special and impressive.

So I will post here some pics, to share with you my vacation time.





In Hurghada the view from our room to one of the 3 swimmingpools and the red sea was very nice.

The second day we travelled with a convoy of more than 40 busses to cairo. We left at 4am and arrived in cairo at noon for lunchtime. Since the terror attacks in luxor some years ago, the governement requests that all who wanna travel to cairo have to announce it and every bus has to get two busdrivers and one policeman for the security.

We had our private bus so it was a lot more comfortable for us. :)

[Black Rose]

During the afternnon we went to the bazar for shopping and to some spezial designers for show costumes. Madame Hekmet and her daughter made some changes especially for my new outfit while I was babysitting her sweet kitty. :wub:

[Black Rose]

Some cairo impressions

[Black Rose]

Travelling around some suburbs of cairo, I have seen very picturesque places.

Some big dattel plantages, the only one railroad with level crossing and manual operation.

As we stopped at the lil village some kids were running to us and very happy to see eruopeans.

We gave them some gummybears, toffees, candies and cloth. They were sooo happy and I loved to see their sparkeling eyes. This is one of my favorite pics.

[Black Rose]

During the night in cairo we went to a special nightclub to see the show with some professional egyptian belly dancers. But we were not allowed to take any pics or video.



You can imagine after that show (it was 6am as it was finished) we were really tired and tried to sleep 3 hours in the hotel before we headed out to the pyramids of Gizeh.

Cause of the high temperature (47 degree C = 116,6 F) we had to be at Gizeh around 10am to enjoy the clear view.

[Black Rose]

Back at Hurghada we met another famous costume designer and expert for the belly dance szene… btw a rich man, but he was like a daddy for us. He took us out every night to another big club for dancing. This was a very new experience for me, cause I only took lessons since one year and had to dance with the professionals. At the beginning I was very shy, but than.. oh yeah the whole nightclub got hot up.

Live band with 6 musicians and 4 belly dancers don’t get any money from the nightclub owner for the shows. The belly dancers have to animate the peeps, especially the men, who will come to the dancer and throw money all over her. Women are not allowed to pay any bills in such a club, omly the accompagnied men. And of course, together with 4 profi dancers we could get lotsa money from all the sheiks and special men there.

Only the owener of the nightclub is allowed to collect the money from the floor and put it into a box which is standing all night in the middle of the stage. After the show the money is getting distributed between the dancers and musicians. This is the money they only earn for their show.

The dancer in cairo (very famous one) gets 3000 EUR $ per hour in their own nightclubs.

Last pic shows Djamila and me at 5am in the morning. her Homepage (http://www.djamila.de/)

[Black Rose]

Another wonderful trip was to luxor and valley of the kings. Same temperature as in cairo but much more humidity made me a bit dizzy in the afternoon. We had more than 50 degree C and you can imagine how hard it was to walk around with absolutely no chance to get any shade around there (especially in the valley of the kings).



Some impressions from the Karnak temple and the King tombs. Most relics and jewelery were moved from the tombs to the national museum in cairo, but to see the original paintings was very interesting and very impressive. The old egyptians needed 20 years to finish all the paintings in the tombs. We were not allowed to take pics (penalty 1000 EUR) because the original colour had to be protected.

[Black Rose]

some more .. could find a kfc and pizza hut next to the temple :p:

[NightBreed]

Wow Rosie !!! That is an incredible trip, thanks for sharing with us !!!

Keep the pics coming !!! :wub:

[Black Rose]

Now valley of the kings and nil boat trip :)

[Black Rose]

Last ones: some sunsets and my new belly dance outfit.

[FUS1ON]

Wow Rose it looks like you had an amazing trip. I'm soooo jealous. What amazes me is that we think of things in our (USA) history as being old, Shoot we can't touch Egypt's history which dates back to thousands of years!

Glad to see you had a good time, made it home safe and I love the new outfit Woohooo!!! :D

[He Is Legend]

WOW!

Looks like you had a hell of a time

Can you be anymore sexier in that belly dance outfit :D

Thanks for the pics

[Slice]

Nice pictures Rose! What an awesome trip and experience that must have been. :)

[OUTLAWS Dixie Chick]

Thanks for sharing pictures of the trip...I really enjoyed those! I'm so glad you had a good trip. I love the new belly dance outfit! You are so beautiful! :thumbs: SHAKE IT!

[OUTLAWS high ping camper]

Cairo is a trip isn't it?! I was there in 94 when McDonald's built it's first restaurants there, and our company was there to establish a distribution center for them. Here's a picture of me hangin' with the homey's. :)

[OUTLAWS Spike]

Wow Rosie those are some amazing pics! :thumbs: I would love to go there someday.
Thanks for sharing and I'm glad you had a great and safe trip, welcome back and I must say the outfit is HOT!! :woohoo:

[OUTLAWS Iris]

Welcome back home Rose!

I was awed by the pictures you took in Egypt. I would love to sit down and talk with you so you could tell me all about it. Like Shogun said, we Americans have no concept of history or the age of things. But your pictures captured quite a bit of the wonder of Egypt. Thanks for sharing them; they were wonderful.

And by the way, that new belly-dancer outfit is quite hot!

[OUTLAWS CHICO]

WOW awsome pics and it looks like you had a great time. If you think you had trouble over there wait till the next lan party ,I plans on practicing some of their tactics.( grabbing the woman without the body guard ) lol. Glad you made it back safe and thanks for sharing the pictures.Lovely as always.

[Dan2]

Amazing pics Rose!!! To see all that ancient history is incredible. How did they build all that stuff. The King Tut tomb pic is cool.:thumbs:

[ThePIT]

Simply thanks for sharing a part of this trip with us ! :thumbs:

I like all of those pics ;) and this topic looks like a story hehe... great ! :watchmovi

Hope you enjoyed yourself a lot and nice to see you back and safe from this trip :)

[DiTomasso]

Nice pictures, nice to c u had a great time :thumbs:

[Die Hard]

Those pics were fantastic Rosie. You sure did see a lot of the country, which looks fantastic! I know exactly what you mean about the folks on the streets!

The temperature is so hot over there it’s hard to explain unless you have been and experienced it yourself. [phew] When I was there, even though the a/c in the car was on full it was still coming out warm. Only in the evenings did the a/c get anything like cool. I saw car dashboards bend in the heat!

Did you go on a boat down the Nile??

I’m glad you had a good time and thanks for sharing your pics!:wub: :wub: :wub:

[EdoG]

:) Thanks Rosie for posting the pictures. Looks fun, glad you enjoyed it :thumbs:

[picard]

Wow Rosey you certainly know how to do it!! Very nice trip.

[OUTLAWS BIOHAZARD]

Wow that must have been awesome! Heya now how come you did not get me some of those belly dancers digits I would have called them up and taken them out biohazard style baby! WOOT!!! hehe just messing with yah. Anyways I love the pic's remind me much of DAOC in stygia hehe.

Thanks alot!
BIOHAZARD

[Thundarr]

Great pics and stories to go with them, Rosie, thanks for sharing!!! :thumbs:

[Herbus Maximus]

I'm glad you made it back safe, Rose.:wub:
The pictures were wonderful and so are you for sharing them.
I'm glad you had a great time.:)

[T I K]

Glad too that you made it back safe !! Looks like you had a Great time doing it..... Egyptian style, V-nice pics :wub: :woohoo:

[X-Man]

Hey Rosie Cool and interessting pixxxx:D :cool: :eek: :thumbs: ;)

[(Villains) Crazy Idiot]

Wow Rosie nice pics, looking sexy (like allways). Nice trip you had there and thank you for sharing it with us.

[leon]

Egypt seems to be a very wonderful country.

I want to try to go someday, too.

Thank you for the wonderful pic. Rosie Rocks!! :thumbs:

[Nitro]

nice pictures Rosie!
It must have a been a great vacation :)