Harder than… buy tickets in Egypt!!!!
We went by metro to bus and train main station in el Cairo, the first shock was that when people wants to get out/in from the train people don’t wait for you, they just trying to do both things at the same time, that’s why we miss our first stop, hopefully we could take a train back without problems.
In the Train Station, only ask for information is very difficult, as I mencionate before, few people speaks English, well… we trying to get a ticket to Aswan (there are 13 hours by train) and spend the night in the train, we try to get the train for 00:30… we wanted to go in second class (50 LE) so is ok, almost 10 USD, however the guy who sales the ticket just didn’t want to sell any ticket just becouse other guy say something about him, so we were waiting almos 2 hours!!! Is weird, noone complains, not even when the ticket’s guy was smoking, resting, drinking coffee, and chilling out with others!!!... We were piss off and we decided to take first class ticket or any ticket…. but no free space there. L
It was almost midnight and we meet a guy who was trying to sells us a Tour to Luxor for 5 days, it sound cool, it was almost all covered (even cheaper than the IPM Study Tour)… the problem was that we haven’t enough money at the moment, we were specting have a bagpacker trip, but in a tour is different, you need to be prepared and travel more confortable… at the end we decide to not take de tour (just a hunch), and went back to Piero’s apartment… but the metro was closed…. About the prize… not even close of the real prize!!! But that history is for other post…
Going back home! Is totally an ISSUE. After, today I learn a lot of tips! As few people speaks or have a basic level of English in Egypt, is always necessary to have any main information translated in Arabic, for example… THE ADRESS!!!! And the NUMBERS!!!! The cab driver didn’t speak English at all, so I write the spected cost in my hand… the driver took my pencil and write the prize…. When I saw how much was the travel…. I saw two weird icons, it was in ARABIC!!! But the driver was a smart guy, he took two billets and shows us, and we just say yes! Let’s get out from here!!!! (midnight, downtown, no English speaking country…)
The second thing was the Adress, the guy just lost! How difficul could be find a place calle El Maadi! …. We figure out, that place was four times bigger than San Juan de Lurigancho! Hahahahaha…. The funny thing is when the driver asked for direction to one guy in the street, the guy just only hop in and went with us, and thanks to him we finally get back home… so also write the address in native language…. Now we are in home, but we will travel the next day… hahahaha this adventure is amazing!!!!!! (Hope my parents were not reading this…. :P)
In the Train Station, only ask for information is very difficult, as I mencionate before, few people speaks English, well… we trying to get a ticket to Aswan (there are 13 hours by train) and spend the night in the train, we try to get the train for 00:30… we wanted to go in second class (50 LE) so is ok, almost 10 USD, however the guy who sales the ticket just didn’t want to sell any ticket just becouse other guy say something about him, so we were waiting almos 2 hours!!! Is weird, noone complains, not even when the ticket’s guy was smoking, resting, drinking coffee, and chilling out with others!!!... We were piss off and we decided to take first class ticket or any ticket…. but no free space there. L
It was almost midnight and we meet a guy who was trying to sells us a Tour to Luxor for 5 days, it sound cool, it was almost all covered (even cheaper than the IPM Study Tour)… the problem was that we haven’t enough money at the moment, we were specting have a bagpacker trip, but in a tour is different, you need to be prepared and travel more confortable… at the end we decide to not take de tour (just a hunch), and went back to Piero’s apartment… but the metro was closed…. About the prize… not even close of the real prize!!! But that history is for other post…
Going back home! Is totally an ISSUE. After, today I learn a lot of tips! As few people speaks or have a basic level of English in Egypt, is always necessary to have any main information translated in Arabic, for example… THE ADRESS!!!! And the NUMBERS!!!! The cab driver didn’t speak English at all, so I write the spected cost in my hand… the driver took my pencil and write the prize…. When I saw how much was the travel…. I saw two weird icons, it was in ARABIC!!! But the driver was a smart guy, he took two billets and shows us, and we just say yes! Let’s get out from here!!!! (midnight, downtown, no English speaking country…)
The second thing was the Adress, the guy just lost! How difficul could be find a place calle El Maadi! …. We figure out, that place was four times bigger than San Juan de Lurigancho! Hahahahaha…. The funny thing is when the driver asked for direction to one guy in the street, the guy just only hop in and went with us, and thanks to him we finally get back home… so also write the address in native language…. Now we are in home, but we will travel the next day… hahahaha this adventure is amazing!!!!!! (Hope my parents were not reading this…. :P)
