Friday, August 25, 2006

Preventing Penile Erection

Magic Oasis ...

hello to you all!
Immediately I want to reassure you: no we are not dead in train accident in Cairo ... but we could have. In one week we took probably near a train on the part of the system or had place the accident .... hope that luck does not leave us! Inshallah!

we come back to life so tural after almost 10 days out of time in the Egyptian oasis. As the ADSL is here, a small photo iullustration.

So the last message we were at Siwa, the most lost and most beautiful of all the oases (top left on the card to Libya). Since we have linked
Baharya , Farafra, Dakhla then Kharga and Luxor here we have for a break before re-attacking with pharahoneries valley of kings and Co.

=> Siwa -> Baharya.
Une petite image de siwa car dans le dernier message c etait plutot brut de brut

la vieille forteresse


Un des nombreux lacs sales (eh non ce n est pas une blague en middle of the desert!) with the mountain white background

The road between the two oases is over n that was barely 1 / 4 or anything ... The rest alternates between track disgusting, old asphalt road near a little drinking and dunes sui invade everything. To make the journey, c is the super m *** e! Must AVOP permissions from the police, customs and especially trouvver a conveyance, the simplest and being the 4x4. Much tell you that our small budget could afford. We've found another solution via a pickup (not 4x4) UAI was ready to take us ... has remained complete. Hard suand tourists can be counted on two hands! And still the chance we smiled, we found a couple really nice and tried to do as we (his Palestinian medical studies in Cairo and German work in Spain) The current is immediately SAAP is 7 and c a 4-day trip begins following have (maybe more ... who knows!)

The road was very long, we grow 3 times the pickup silting, passes through seven checkpoints (here I think not having spoken elsewhere but c is almost as common as radars automatiaues and sometimes the traffic lights! They are useless ... well if a complicate and slow things down ... especially when you travel with a Palestinian ... j talk about that later)

From delightful feeling of being absolutely alone in the middle of a desert in sweltering heat, the slightly salty sweat that dries instantly and hair full of dust
sand ...
sunset over the immensity and night under the stars with the Milky Way as seen in the most beautiful pictures of atronomie. Impresssionant!

=> Baharya -> Farafra
Baharya Arrive in the middle of the night after 8 hours of unforgettable and harrowing road, we find a hotel and sleep some hours.
The interest of Bahariya is not like the oasis Siwa UAI is not very nice and pretty rotten by tourism (c is the closest to Cairo).
Here the excursions in a kind of white dersert Cappadocia Turkey without water but with the km2 of sand and limestone forms. C is a 4 tjrs which we organize a 1 2j night in the desert in 4x4 all inclusive (night on mattresses on the sand and meals prepared by the driver (and is hot as fire on wood) for 17.5euros / person .... crazy stuff right??
qq photos ...



Both say right away but the images speak for itself, was c magic ... Nightfall soretnry rn effect of nowhere 10aine desert fox (I do not know the word FR) vienent see tourists. Kinds of big cats (in fact harmless foxes) they play with anything that they find ... and are pa; al noise ...


Dakhla Oasis
ARPRE a museum in Farafra which I shall speak in detail without the * real * book travel and 5 hours away in the middle of absolutely nothing and 5 check points (one or one had to write black and white that we had no police escort not need .... but it changes what in fact an escort when there s nothing and nobody on the roads or at the very least it is 55 degrees?), here we are without the Dakhla Oasis, One of the largest and most beautiful with siwa.
A day with a private taxi is 22 euros per 150 The day was divided by 4 ... and here we are on the road to discover the fantastic life in the oases

earthen alleyways of Balat

Balat

Ptolemaic temple (= Roman Pharaonic period) in sandstone of Mut

I spend 10aine things but as you say here c is the paradise of sand, rocks, water and passes na not lost a ride after 5000 years (the oldest traces of pharaonic Egypt). Here
fewer checkpoints but plsu c is effective, they casually refer directly to our driver's wife to know where we are once night falls and we accompagnet up a minibuses that is completed and our partners!

El Khargha
thought for Vince and all those who have read the Abyssinian JC Ruffin. Indeed this rich oasis today the capital of New Valley c but it is another story was the meeting point between the runway and UAI from Cairo said that 40 days would UAI in Sudan and Ethiopia.
Rich traces of what happens

old fortress hotel for merchant caravans of

Christian Necropolis of Al Bagawat

The temple of Hibis during disassembly / reassembly by unesco

Towards Luxor

Thanks to the new road that connects the oasis luxor bypassing Asyut in Middle Egypt (Area closed to tourists due to Muslim homes) we reach Luxor from where I am typing. No fewer than 10 points ckeck on the road with qq both the passport of our Palestinian friend who raises concern ... the road was closed for tourists 18h and a heavy police escort for entry to the city, here we are in the city of the Pharaohs ... but it will be for the next post!

to respond to messages,
elise JN and J have a good think you pdt my turista because actually your story reminded my ca ... except me I have never vomiting or stomach ache ... just a fever and diarrhea ... Strange no?
Vincent you go with us qd you want to travel!
Cyriel and emma Thanks for the mesage but I think there are differences even if c is true that the noise in the world and culture shock are well
appointment last thing and yes, it was the accounts, we drink between 2 and 6 bottles of 1.5 liters per day ... of course water! It is very hot ... to say we put the air conditioning and settled here in Luxor is 31 degrees c is kind of the absolute foot .. c is mean!

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Birdseed Cakes With Gelatin

Yanely Photo of Dan La Chronique: Part 4

Dan commençait à trouver le temps long, the fatigue of s'instiller achevait engourdis dans ses membres, SLOWLY, insidieusement, Paris-Cuba you are travail avait accompli sap. The jolts of the car ended the upset. They were very far now, the taxi, a Skoda red patched up end to end, was heading towards the Calle Obispo [1] cleverly avoiding the ruts of the most formidable.
- is coming soon, right? "Dan asked impatiently.
- Almost there, you do not recognize the central park? Leydi let go amusement.
- If course ... where did I head 'lied Dan, for once, be surprised to have arrived safely. Indeed, the taxi turned into the street now Bernaza leading to Floridita. Passed the bar "Monserrate" and screw screw "Castillo de Farnes, the driver ended his race in the parking lot across from the bar Hemingway. There were only fifty yards to walk on the left sidewalk of Obispo Street.
Dan walked alongside with Yanely Leydi two meters behind. A pair of the jineteros apostrophèrent suddenly
- Do you woante cigars?
The thinner of the two had tried a few words in broken English.
- I call you a taxi?, Adds the second, which continued in English.
Dan did not answer at first, anyway he was buying more cigars since he had been flogging fake Cohiba [2] to based on palm leaves. He did not think more need to answer the second who had seen off the taxi. Our two friends did not discourage him, provided:
- New? tried the puppy for fun.
Dan turned to him inquiringly. He did not immediately understand the meaning of the question. Yanely noted that it had performed well and did not appreciate the joke at all. In true Cuban style mischievous and provocative jinetero the proposed "another girlfriend" to which Dan responded belatedly and forcefully boorishness. Despite the irritation displayed Yanely he could not help laughing at the noisy kid's joke. However, to temper his reaction, he gently took her hand to lay a kiss, it was not about to risk spoiling one minute of appreciation for his stay for a single burst of his laughter devoid of diplomacy ...
They climbed, like old familiar places they were, the two-story yellow building. Leydi was responsible for booking the apartment. Dan did not even try to negotiate the twenty-five dollars a night that he asked the owner. Leiden, fond of nicknames, called the rubia [3] . Circumstances decided otherwise, but for now, once again, Dan was supposed stay only a short time in Havana. In these circumstances, it was reluctant to make candle-end economies. Anyway, he did not bargain, especially when the asking price seemed fair. The "rubia", a plump woman in her thirties over, now dealt directly with Dan. The husband was waiting watching TV in another apartment a few blocks away. Dan was not sorry for judging the photos left in the apartment, he did not look comfortable. His scowling, his thick biceps gave him almost a caricature of a face of a nightclub bouncer.
As a general rule, in on rental of apartment, the role of each spouse seems predetermined. Women do not mind making their own hand in money matters. Meanwhile, spouses are busy with other tasks, often much less profitable ...
- This is the second or third time I come here? Dan wondered.
- After all I would have done just as well ask for a discount for my loyalty.
Too late. The blonde came down the stairs with a heavy and careless, the well-calculated trajectory. As proof, she stepped aside to avoid a dog shit. Dan had
paid only three nights, he gave himself the opportunity to take rates down to his landlady, depending on the evolution of its budget. And then, he could come and want to change the place because it was one of his specialties. Armed with a single suitcase, he knew he would not make much effort required to leave the place. And then at the bottom, the guides are not lacking, few perfect specimens exhibit themselves until late at night in Obispo Street. Dan knew half a dozen, at a minimum, on the lookout for a commission or "Hatuey" very cool. And in the neighborhood, there are still some available apartments, then do not worry ...
Dan was installed in a large circular bed. Not trivial. The shape of the layer had surprised him, and his base more. He was cast in concrete over forty centimeters thick.
- All that must weigh a ton ... Finally the mattress is thick, it is the main thought Dan. Now, with Yanely at his side, nothing could hinder his quest for a blissful and peaceful stay ...


[1] Bishop Street.
[2] timeliness in Cuban cigar brand.
[3] The blonde .