Across the Nile and Back Again – Part 2/3

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He was waving, I don’t know what happened to the video dammit. Oh
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this, so this is like the center and there’s a police check right
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here
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which they never checked us. This is beautiful isn’t it? They did this
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last year, this brick work. And there’s a canal. Oh, oh, don’t stop
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short on me man! This is where we get our peanuts! We’ll be back later. Auf
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really likes peanuts. We got pizza there.
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It was okay. Auf really likes peanuts, so we get peanuts a lot, and
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I can’t stop eating them but, they back me up. Tuk Tuk! That’s another
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blue tuk tuk. That means it’s sick. Oh, that penis is sick. The tuk tuk’s
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a problem. Okay, so now we’re driving, we’re going to the Nile,
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and we’re gonna get on a ferry, to the West Bank, or East Bank, because we’re on
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the West. These are homes that are built by foreigners. See the
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German flag. Yeah, so there’s some pretty houses back there
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that, there’s a, I guess a group of expats and foreigners that
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live out here. We tend to stick with the locals but that’s just
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us. Oh, banana farm, a little banana farm with little banana
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trees. And this is where you can get petrol or gas. It’s also the
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only place if you rip your money and you tape it back together,
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which I did, Auf said the only way we’d be able to use it is for
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petrol. So, because they won’t take it at the banks, and they
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won’t take it at the shops. It’s kind of like I Azerbaijan,
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they didn’t like if the money was ripped. That’s local transportation, there’s
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those all over the place. [inaudible]
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That’s a black tuk tuk! Guy working on his truck in the road.
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These are more local transportation buses. Another tuk tuk! Someone
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dropped the phone in the street, dammit. So we’re just hangin… Butcher.
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This is the butcher which we haven’t really gone too much. Auf
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cooks for us every day, which I’m going to video him cooking.
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He’s an amazing cook but he makes lunch for us every day and
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he makes vegetarian most of the time. Although when there’s a
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festival or something special we do have some chicken something,
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once in a while.
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And again, sorry for the shaky video but we’re on a motorbike.
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So, as you can see in front of us is the Nile!
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No I’m not in denial, that’s the Nile. It’s almost as good as the
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backside of water. And for my Disney people you would
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understand. This is the bus station but, we don’t really
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have…
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ever gone there because Auf drives us around everywhere. We
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have a very good relationship. He drives us around and he gets
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coffee and gets to smoke cigarettes with Joel, and I go
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shopping. Oh I can see these are people coming home from the East,
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West, East Bank dammit. This is people coming home from the East
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Bank to the West Bank to go home after the day. And this is where
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we will park our motorbike, and they really like Auf so they
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keep it up front and they cover it, which is interesting. He
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knows everyone it’s weird. So Salaam Alekum. Okay, so I’m
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gonna get off. Auf, we’ll meet you over there, I’m gonna walk
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towards the Nile.
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Okay, so these are all tuk tuks! I’m half naked. I’m not half naked but
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I’m wearing a tank top and shorts, which usually I wear a
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sweater but I thought we were just going straight to the East
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Bank which I don’t worry about it on the East Bank. Although no
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one gives me a hard time. It’s still, you can tell I’m basically
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the least clothed person on this side of the
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Nile at the moment. Okay, so we are literally walking towards
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the Nile, and I will zoom in. I’m gonna zoom in Joel. I’m not… Luxor Temple.
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That is Luxor temple. You’re gonna see it, we’re gonna, so
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we’re gonna take a ferry which is about five pounds, which
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again is like 75 cents or something. I’m trying not to get
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people in it, but they like to be in it, it’s kind of weird. So
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this is… Lots of uncircumcised. tuk tuks.
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Oh, uncircumcised tuk tuks. Again, I hope you’re not
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watching this at work. You might get arrested. So here is the Nile
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at sunset. The sun just went down behind me and they think
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I’m a tourist. But look at these little boats, so these boats
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take you back and forth from the East Bank to the West Bank.
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Isn’t that cool? So here’s the Nile. Look at that. Perfect time to come to the
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Nile. This is the Nile people. No, really! So, on Saturday,
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which today is Wednesday, on Saturday, we are taking a cruise
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up the Nile out to a place called Aswan. These are the
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cruise boats that you go on. And they will also be your hotel
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when you’re in Aswan. I hear Auf’s voice.
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Yes. Okay. So, you know Auf, that’s Auf.
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Okay, so we’re getting on a little boat. We’re gonna take it
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over and then I’m gonna take a video…
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You know, this is the collective boat, or the normal ferry, but it
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takes time to cross from West Bank to the East Bank that’s
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why we were gonna take a small motorboat to cross fast.
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Exactly. Auf has been a tour guide for, how many years? 17!
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17 years, so he knows everything. And he knows everyone. If I took
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the video like over here, you will see him run into like 15
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million people and be like, hey, Salam Alekum, Salam Alekum. And we’re like hello, hello.
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These are people getting off the boat. But I don’t like to video
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people without their permission, so we’re just not going to do
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that.
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Can you make, get Luxor Temple? Yep, yep. And this is winter palace
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built by King Farouk. There is a room in this hotel. All the
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furniture inside this room: Antique.
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Antique people. Classy stuff. Okay, last time I slipped down
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this gang plank. So I have to take my time.
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I feel like a tourist Joel. You look like a tourist. I, Dammit!
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Dammit, Janet! So do I!
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Oh, yeah, cuz you’re not in your galabia. I don’t have my galabia. You don’t even have
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it. Okay, so this is our boat.
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“Nile Peace” today. Salam. And I’m gonna sit over here,
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which I want to sit up here to take the video, Okay?
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So, we’re sitting up front, so you can take the video, here’s
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another boat coming in. So what’s interesting about this is
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that one boat will come up to the next boat and then they will
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just cross to go over to get back on land. It’s kind of cool.
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There’s Joel, look at Joel. How’s it going? You have anything to say?
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I’m in denial. Now he’s on the Nile. So yeah, so this is us
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going across. We’ve done this a couple times. We’ve been to a
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wedding over here. It was fun. That’s up. I don’t know which
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which direction do we go when we go to Aswan? You know? I… South.
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I think South. So it takes one and a half days on the Nile to get up
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there. And then you spend two nights there, unless you get
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stuck in the lock, and then you’re there for an extra night.
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Which we’re kind of hoping to get stuck in the lock. It’s like
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getting lost, but not. And then it’s one and a half days back.
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So yeah, isn’t it beautiful? This is Egypt!
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And there goes the West Bank. So, it takes like what, five
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minutes to get across, seven minutes? Yeah, it’s not a very
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long trek. Show the cruise… Oh, I told Them, I showed them the cruise boats. I
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told them we were going. Okay, we’re getting close to one. Yeah,
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so they’re pretty big. Auf says about 200, 280 people can be on
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one boat if it’s full. But our boat is bigger than this boat, a litte. Our boat’s bigger than that boat
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And it’s like 55 Egyptian pounds a day and that’s
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for your room. And for food. And it what? And it’s US dollars. Oh,
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is it? So it’s 55 bucks a night. Oh, and guess what? We’re
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totally bringing in our cat on the boat. We’re totally sneaking
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Lexi on the boat because we’re not leaving her. So,
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Auf is getting us our cruise for 45 A night because he knows
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everyone. And what’s also cool is Auf gets to go with us but,
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because he’s a tour guide and has like the tour guide official
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certificate or ID, he gets to go on for free and he’ll stay… He
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gets room and board as well. But he doesn’t have to pay for it.
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So he’s going with us. So it’s like having a good friend, and
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also a personal tour guide everywhere you go. Also, so I worked
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this boat seven years. Seven years. I
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was a front office manager first, and after that I was a manager
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for the boat for two years
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Ah, see, you know everything. So this is the West Bank. Are they burning,
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What is that, is that the sugar cane? Yes, and most of these houses are foreigner houses.
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Yeah, it’s sunset. So you’re not gonna really see houses but
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they’re huge. A lot of beautiful houses.
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Yeah. Okay, so we are coming up on the East Bank. And then we
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will do the same thing probably and cross through other boats to
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get on the land. Those are sail boats Oh, they’re sailboats. Oh, you can do those
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too. That’s like a tourist thing. But you could do it,
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sailboats. But we choose these boats and cruise ships. Because
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that’s not touristy at all. No. Cruise ship aren’t touristy in the slightest. I was being sarcastic. Okay, so we’re
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coming up on Kareem. Oh wait, no, Kareem’s moving. I was
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hoping to show them the whole walk through one boat to the
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other boat, but we can do that later. All right. So I guess the
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next video might be the East Bank, or it might be the West
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Bank. I’m not sure. Love you guys. Bye.