Worthless and Weak

Today was my last half day in Aswan, I'm at the airport right now on route to Alexandria. I went to the temple of Kalabsha (which is by the airport) and then traveled directly to the airport. The temple was nice, but I think I'm getting tired of seeing the generic Greek/Egyptian temple (Edfu, Kom Ombo, Philae and now Kalabsha). Don't get me wrong, they are all quite nice, but (unlike say the temples at Abu Simbel), they are all fairly similar to one another, and also similar to the more standard temples, such as Medina Habu.

Also, I was literally the only tourist there. It was completely empty. I had to find the guards (who were cooking fish) who woke up the ticket agent so I could buy my ticket. Then of course they followed me around everywhere, becoming my unwanted tourguide, and of course wanting a little bit of bakeesh for it.

Now, I'm in the airport, (which also feels a little bit like a ghost town, they are other people, but it is in general quite quiet. I have to take a plane to Cairo and then a cab to the train station and then a train to Alexandria, I probably won't get there until 7 or 8 at night; which I'm really really not looking forward to. Alexandria I've heard is very nice, hopefully it will not have the same type of over-tourist feel that Luxor had. Anyway, I don't have much more to say about this, I'm at the airport with an hour and forty five minutes to spare, I figure that I've tempted fate one too many times with regards to intercity travel that from now on I should play it extra safe.

Ok, now I'm in Alexandria. Instead of taking a train to Alexandria, I just took a car the whole way there. It only cost me about 70 dollars, but it was going to cost a fair amount to get to the train station anyway, and considering how incredibly hectic the station in Luxor was, it's quite possible the one in a city probably 50 times as big might just be worse.

On the way here, nothing much happened, except for one turn, just after we crossed the Nile, I saw the hazy outlines of two incredibly Gigantic triangles. I can't wait to see them up close! (oh, also, I saw the two pyramids of Dahshur from the plane today!)

Labels: Egypt, vacation