Joy and Harassment Travel in Egypt | vA 1
bye thank you, morning my friends, let's go, and i am leaving the resort, and i still wonder why did i come here, i thought a ferry was going to hurghada from here, i miscalculated that, and now i have to take a bus to... because i'm stuck in sinai and i cannot ride in the sinai so i will take your bus to cairo, so that's the plan for this video go to the bus station, and see if somehow we can put this bike in a bus, on the way to cairo, and then start riding south, that's the new plan, start riding south from cairo, but wow yeah, so i'm leaving sharm el sheikh, well i'm still in the resort area, and i have to say sharm el sheikh is probably one of the weirdest places i've been in my life, it's uh, there is no real city, it's just a resort and here i am in cairo, as you can see, i try to be careful, look at that behind me you see, mo salah, mo salah is behind me, i'm at the bus station, i don't really know if i can film, you know in cairo sometimes it's problematic, so i try to be careful, but now my goal... i'm gonna visit cairo later, when i will come back to do my sudanese visa, now i'm just gonna escape from cairo and head south immediately, let's go yeah, i'm going across the nile river, look at that and the nile once again guys people are so friendly so far, a lot of hellos if you can see the pyramids awesome hello hi oh my god, so i am seven kilometers, six or seven kilometers from the hotel i want to go oh my god riding across cairo was one of the most exhilarating experiences in my life wow it was so thrilling, unbelievable you had... well you've seen a little bit of it, wow
cars everywhere, camels, horses, donkeys, police everywhere, people everywhere yeah i just wanted to tell you that, the experience was... i loved it, i absolutely loved it, you have to be hyper focused, you have to try to look everywhere at the same time, try to not not run into a pedestrians, avoid being run... avoid that cars run into you let's continue ok bye bye i overtake a camel, and i arrive at what is supposed to be my guesthouse good good, nice okay, exchange oh yeah yeah, he wanted to exchange my bike for his camel, but i think... my camel i was gonna say... my bike, yeah i prefer my bike, ah yes, where are you from france, from the uk, from the uk, okay nice nice to meet you, you're staying here no we just came back from atv like quad biking oh quad biking, oh okay okay okay nice, so like do you travel... you're traveling the whole of egypt, yeah the whole of africa actually, i want to do, oh okay, but i'm starting, for africa i'm starting, that's amazing, it's going to be on your vlog, yeah yeah, okay i'll say hi, hey guys welcome to egypt, thank you, so you're also from the uk right, no no i'm from canada, from canada okay nice you're traveling in egypt, no we're currently studying, oh you studying here, oh nice, cool how are you finding egypt yeah nice, i was in sinai before, i just arrived from sinai problems like traveling, in sinai they you cannot ride the bike so here i am in my guest house, and i might stay here, i wanted to stay here only one night, i might stay two nights, so there in the distance you have cairo and giza somewhere, but we have the pyramids, just here, look at that, they are not the big pyramids of giza, they are other pyramids, look at this rooftop guys so beautiful, and look at that, you can see the limit just there between the very green and lush valley of the nile, i guess the nile is somewhere down on the left, and there it's the desert, so you can see that the pyramids are really on the edge, just at the beginning of the desert very close to the valley of the nile, to the lush valley of the nile and there is my food look at that for five dollars wow look at that guys, oh my god i've got chicken, i've got kebab, no, kofta he said, i've got rice, i've bread, i've got vegetables and i've got some sauce, fantastic, let's try the bread with some kofta oh oh the meat is very good yeah i need a big meal today, a big dinner, i didn't have lunch, so i'm starving oh let's try the rice always good, in egypt the rice is so good i was missing this, i was starting to think, what what where the hell is my drink it's here, hello a lot of sauce oh it's spicy actually very good, let's try the chicken for you very good as well what an awesome meal, for my only meal of the day how are you they love my bike now oh my god to finish the video guys, let's go to see... these ones we keep them
for later, because i stay just here, let's go to see the pyramids of dahshur and saqqara and i've got new friends they want to get money in my bag money, you give me give me wow i don't know if i ended up in a cemetery or some stuff, something like that, wow what a place so now the trouble starts, i have some guys who... i don't know what they want, but they basically they just tell me you cannot go look at that and i'm stuck in the sand here just look yeah, why cannot take picture yeah, ticket there where is the door, i come from here, where is the door after i go there, and i buy a ticket i cannot... you follow me, if you don't trust me no photo here now i want to pay for the ticket, but there is no... there is nothing uh, there is no entrance, if you have a badge, and you show me how much is the ticket, i pay, no problem tell me, how much where is the ticket there you see that's why egypt has a very bad reputation, because nothing is organized, i agree that they want to pay for a ticket, but wtf, there is no entrance it's funny because, well now sorry, i need to explain you, first i'm running away from the police because i was at the entrance, then they asked me to pay, so that's fine, and then they told me, okay no but we need to check your camera before you enter so then i said okay, well, i said okay sorry i don't want to see the pyramids, i don't like the pyramids, bye, so i'm not gonna see the pyramids of dahshur, i'm gonna try my luck in saqqara and now i have a tuk-tuk who follows me, but as soon as you turn on the camera, they stop following you and i don't know where i'm going because i took a small road to dodge the police basically, in case they follow me oh my god that's a complete mess so now i have one guy who tells me i cannot go where i'm going saqqara video saqqara is this way no, so i can go this way, no, yes okay okay i can go okay okay bye, it's very weird because as soon as you turn on the camera, the behavior of people completely changes like this guy obviously did not want me to continue, i turned on the camera and then he told me well just go on welcome, thank you ah exchange, no it's okay, thank you so those stones here guys, are four thousand seven hundred years old, here in saqqara, i managed to enter the necropolis of this old city of memphis and look at that guys, wow built by djozer, the first king of the third dynasty around 2700 bc, this is almost five thousand years old, what the hell, sorry i'm not very enthusiastic, i'm still sick from sharm el sheikh, and well the struggles to get to visit the pyramids uh, made me tired basically what a thing man wow and in the distance maybe it's too far for you, but in the distance we can see the two huge pyramids where i was denied the entrance and that's the way to the tomb of a king basically, it goes down inside very deep underground, and another less well preserved extraordinary structure can you believe that all the carvings you saw inside there dates back from more than 4000 years, wow it's insane, it's so... and it's so well preserved i guess that's thanks to the dry air, the dryness of the air here camera camera yeah, good good yeah and i arrive at the site of the pyramids of abusir some huge, how do you say, hieroglyphs hieroglyphs i don't know how you pronounce that in english and i have the entire site just for myself isn't it cool the quality of the stones is really impressive well those are different, ah but this is granite, i think the guy at the guesthouse said something about some pyramids around here being built with granite, i think the black one also the first one we saw today, when we were kicked out, uh was built with granite as well and he said it was very impressive because i think there is no granite here, in egypt you only find granite i think around luxor, and uh not around here, and it's funny because you have this huge pyramid wow, that's amazing, and you have two other pyramids there and the view over the valley of the nile whoa guys, can you see the desert and the horses there that's awesome, we can see the pyramids of giza from here, so that's what i was told apparently from each pyramid, you can see the pyramids before and the pyramids after, well the pyramids upstream and the pyramids downstream, they are never far away from each other and there the huge pyramids of giza, there in the distance see you for the next adventures, ciao guys
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