Finally im back and sorry for the late response, I came back yesterday but didnt have the strenth to go online, that 10 hur flight was very tedious and annoying. Other than that the whole trip was almost life changing, and made me GREATLY, I mean Seriously appreciate where I live, and if anyone has seen New York City, you probably thought it was very dirty, but when I came back from Egypt, I landed in JFK airport, and brooklyn was the the cleanest site ive seen in a month. Although some areas are almost as clean as america, if not cleaner, 85% of egyptian urban places are downright dirty. By dirty, I mean the streets are filthy and garbage are piled on street corners to be burned, animal's such as donkey's and cats and dogs litter the streets pooping, and I will never forget the flies, and how they pinch the person it annoy's, almost never leaving you till you kill it or close the lights.
Now some serious bad stuff about Egypt is that the Muslims persecution towards the Christians and any other foriegners that live or visit the country. In April during the easter eve, the Coptic Orthodox (coptic means Egypt, it the coptic language, not arabic) church holds a mass in their churches just as any Orthodox church(Greek, Russian, etc...) would. But on this grimm day, in two coptic churches were attacked by a man in each church with butcher knives and sabre's killing around 10 Coptics, and the Govt, pronounced them crazy and released them a couple of days later. That was one of the Thousands of scenarios that occured just in the 20'th and 21 century. Also, because I have family in Egypt, Haveing an uncle that is a priest, you really see how muslims treat then badly and curse and spit on them, and in rare cases, throwing stuff at them. Their aggression towards Christians did not begin these days, but from the day they entered Egypt in 632 A.D. Haveing an uncle who is a historian and egyptologist, also helped me know the true history of Egypt. To my surprise, he told me that when the arabs came into Egypt, they were a people of no culture and greatly ignorant. He also mentioned, that the Arabs actually set back the human race from advanceing in technology, by destroying the great library of Alexandria, by a general named Omar, who thought it was a Christian library, containing christian documents, but also contained technology discovered by the Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, and other great ancient civilizations. In this library it had information of medicine and to my surprise, a Greek engineer developed the first steam engine in the years around 300 AD, also the greeks built the first computer from gears and the egyptians developed the first mechanical clock, and all this info was lost with many other valuable info that if it was still around we would have had technology unimagineable by now.
The architecture we associate as Arabic architecture, is a mix of mainly Egyptian architecture, and trhe combination of Greco/Roman, and generic middle eastern architecture, again as I mentioned, the arabs had absolutely no culture, and as they conquered they took what wasw not theirs, and after 1400 years, no doubt people would believe the arabs designed that architecture, but it was actually present in Egypt, due to the fact of all the civilizations that entered Egypt before the Arabs. Some other grimm stories ive heard of how they would raid monestaries and churches, in the olden days and destroy them, taking the pillars of the church and bricks and using them to build Mosques, forcing the people who built the church (99% of the time a christian), to build the Mosque using the stolen stone pillars and bricks to build it, and this caused alot of ancient monestariess to be destroyed. Also, there were Three forms of writing during the Ancient Egyptian time, and the most famus is Hieroglyphic and the other Demotic, which is the language the arabs adopted and made it theirs. This proves that the Arabs again were a people of no culture and "adopted" (stole, in my opinion) everything they are now from other Great Civilizations. Heres a link showing the rosetta stone which was made in 200 A.D. and had the two writeings on it and greek(
Link:Rosetta Stone).
Now Concerning the weather, its hot at day if your under the sun and can be quite humid, but at night, the weather is absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!! Since the country is small and most of it is desert, it will get crowded and pollution is smelled all over the streets, but if your near the Nile, its smell's like the ocean. As for the people, alot of people could be rude and fights sometimes break out in the streets, and there is no organization in the streets with cars, which makes it near impossible to cross the street if you never been to Egypt. The Govt of Egypt is the most corrupt Govt in this world and soo much money is stolen and put into the hands of the families of those leading the country, leaving hundreds of hundreds of thousands to starve. The food could be dangerous if not from a clean vendor, but its Delicious. Also people could rip you off if you are a foreignor, so be careful. There are a couple of places with beaches equal if not better than the beaches of the bahamas, and these beaches contain coral reef and a great variety of sea life.
Well that sums up the country of Egypt at this current time, and if you are going to visit it, You should expect not much from it, but visit the Country if you want to learn about the ancients and history of Egypt, its also good if you are site seeing. It definately can be a good vacation spot, near the beaches but stay away from the big Cities, although its quite interesting. Sorry if I offended anyone but during this vacation to Egypt, Ive learned alot, and since a certain group in Egypt hide the truth, I wanted it to be told as it was, and not the current history that is tampered in, and not the politically controlled textbooks we read.
Ive also began the exportation of graphics and will have a couple ready very soon!!!!
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