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    A Travellers Diary Through Egypt: Terrorism Wasn't In The Sales Brochure
    A Travellers Diary Through Egypt: Terrorism Wasn't In The Sales Brochure
    A Travellers Diary Through Egypt: Terrorism Wasn't In The Sales Brochure
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    A Travellers Diary Through Egypt: Terrorism Wasn't In The Sales Brochure

    By Joy Grant and Brian Grant

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    That long awaited overseas destination that you had dreamed of visiting for many years can present more than you had bargained for. Exotic safaris in locations glamorised in many Hollywood films over the years can suddenly turn what was part of a script writer's drama into a real life threatening experience. In this day and age many overseas locations don't offer the peace and security they once had. Nowadays in this changing volatile world the tourist has to look beyond the glossy tourist brochure to understand the dangers that can lie ahead.

    Travel authors and film producers Joy and Brian Grant are no newcomers to the travel industry. With their professional television and journalistic careers behind them they have turned their attention to travelling the length and breadth of the Australian continent. Their travel award winning products have attracted the attention of not only arm chair travellers but overseas governments looking for a safe travel destination for their growing number of tourists leaving their shores. This hasn't stopped Joy and Brian from packing their cameras and notebooks and spreading their wings to travel the world in search of new destinations and adventures. According to this globe hopping duo, as far as the tourist are concerned it can be a real jungle out there. This sometimes uncovers a few surprises both good and bad not to be found in the glossy sales brochure making life threatening reading for the unwary traveller.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStudent Scribbler
    Release dateNov 5, 2013
    ISBN9781310465017
    A Travellers Diary Through Egypt: Terrorism Wasn't In The Sales Brochure
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      A Travellers Diary Through Egypt - Joy Grant

      A Travellers Diary

      Through Egypt

      Terrorism Wasn’t In

      The Sales Brochure

      by

      Joy and Brian Grant

      Copyright

      Copyright ©2013 by Joy and Brian Grant

      Published by StudentScribbler.com

      Smashwords Edition, Licence Notes

      This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with other persons, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to smashwords.com and purchase your own copy.

      Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      CONTENTS

      Map

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 Cairo

      Chapter 2 Memphis

      Chapter 3 Luxor Temple

      Chapter 4 Karnak

      Chapter 5 Valley of the Kings

      Chapter 6 Hatshepsut

      Chapter 7 Temple of Horus

      Chapter 8 Quarries

      Chapter 9 Island of Philae

      Chapter 10 Abu Simbel

      Chapter 11 El Khalili

      About the Authors

      Map

      Introduction

      Egyptians are regarded as being the first civilisation in the World to have built stone structures at a time when the rest of the World was still using sticks and mud. They not only built massive buildings and temples out of solid brick and granite carved out of the ground but they also developed the tools out of metal to work the stone itself. At the same time they developed rope lifting block mechanisms capable of shifting and transporting massive stone blocks weighing several tonnes across land and rivers covering distances of hundreds of miles and all by hand. The Egyptian civilisation not only developed these masonry skills but developed stone architectural construction techniques that are still recognised today. As remarkable as it was this was at a time when the rest of the World around them virtually stood still. Why and how it happened nobody seems to know. Even with today’s modern building technologies a myriad of theories have been offered as to how the Egyptians obtained all this advancement over those around them, but as yet, a lot of questions still remain unanswered.

      CHAPTER 1

      Cairo

      Where is everyone?

      We touched down in Cairo in the early hours of a warm summer’s morning, needless to say that what would normally be wall to wall people on the move during the day, at this hour there was hardly a soul in sight.

      A friendly Insight tour representative was there to greet us and suggested that we should collect our baggage and join the shortest queue we could find, hopefully for us this would result in a speedy exit through customs. What he failed to say was that although his suggestion might be the shortest queue it would also be the slowest. You can’t win them all. At this ungodly hour of the morning both my wife Joy and I were in need of a good night’s sleep, but the thought of arriving in this World famous destination filled us with excitement and we wanted to stay awake to see as much as we could.

      To our surprise, shops in the Cairo’s airport sell a wide range of electrical white goods including fridges, stoves, microwaves etc. and to our amazement they were open for business. We were told it was better to arrive at the airport in the early hours of the morning as the road traffic into the city was ’Good, not so much?’ Must be a local saying.

      As our coach ferried us along the dual highway towards the city, to our amazement on one side of the coach, passengers could see a wedding in progress right in the centre of the medium strip. On the other side of the

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