"1,000 more and you could have bought the camel!"
Trip Start
Oct 17, 2009
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Trip End
Nov 18, 2009
Cairo, Al Qāhirah, Egypt
Monday, October 19, 2009
So we drive to this "place". It was narrow dirt roads in between houses and stables. All over were really skinny horses with their bones sticking out, camels with tons of locals riding them, and kids playing in trash. Lovely. So Bob stops at this place. A man with not a full set of teeth greets us and brings us into his courtyard front yard area. He proceeds to write the "prices" of riding a camel into the dirt. I'll spare you all the sad painful details of the haggle. Basically after unloading all our US money and Egyptian Pounds, we settle on the official dirt posted price of 500 Egyptian Pounds each. Feeling a little uneasy with the deal, we mount up, ready to take on the pyramids!
Two young boys take the camel's rope and lead us up. Lets sum it up with....it was long and hot as balls. The area all around the pyramids is pretty bare, except for water bottle trash and lost flip flops from fellow camel riders.
We made our way back to the man's house that owned the camels. After a few "walk like an egyptian" jokes, we said good bye and were on our way with Egyptian Bob in our Limo.
Now here is the best part.......We come back to our "hotel" and told the nice guys that work here how it went. When they found out we paid 500 Egyptian Pounds EACH, they laugh and say we could have bought our own camel with just a little bit more money! Great.......
