As I leave my flat i am confronted with unmade pavements and roads
nothing has changed over the past 5 months all the buildings from Luxor Temple to Karnak Temple have been demolished and there is now a clear view of Karnak some 3 kilometer.
in front of the luxor museum there are works where the promenade is being lowered some 3 meters, this also is a 3 kilometre stretch , the footbridge has been made to carry the hundreds of visitors that come to the museum every day.
soon to be lowered is this section every tree will soon be firewood, there are 20 kopak trees plus bougainvillea and acacia trees along this part of the prom.
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the first section of the dig is almost structurally complete, these are or will be the new market area along the three kilometre stretch of the new Nile promenade
the Nile is as low as I have ever seen leaving all the rubbish on the river bed
these are normal clear plastic water bottles that have been floating in the Niles polluted waters,,just like the egrets,, oil has a tendency to stick to anything that goes in water I.e. oil floats on the surface.
Woodlice in the genus Armadillidium can roll up into an almost perfect sphere as a defensive mechanism, hence some of the common names such as pill bug
Luxor temple AND AL HAGAG MOSQUE,built from the temple stone and housed inside the 18th dynasty temple of Ramses111 and Thutmosis
I was informed that the Imam of the mosque is now charging the infidels 20 Euro, or 100 egp for a guided tour of the inside. the rebuilding of this mosque was with infidel money I.e. us $ from aid fund.
view of the temple from the roof restaurant.
Snack time much better fast food than macs and half the price.
the roof is on the top floor and has elevator access, that's why its called the roof,
one gets to see more than one wants from high places like this horse being whipped for no apparent reason only it lost its nerve in the mass of stupid drivers sitting on the vehicles horn.
The Guardian'sHarriet Sherwood was in Sharm el-Sheikh
Saturday December 4 2010
so she has a a time machine? so maybe she can go back before the attacks and tell everyone not to go in the water,
so much for believing the tabloids I still believe the first report where the guy said he blew bubbles in the sharks face,http://nilelife5.blogspot.com/2010/12/shark-attack-in-egypt_02.html.
And the Egyptian who said they will not kill the shark, said Egypt sees one to two fatal shark attacks a year and they increase as the number of tourists and swimmers in the water rises. .
No one said it was safe to go back in the water ? and no one, absolutely no one, was taking any chances.
The sparkling Red Sea off Sharm el-Sheikh, in Egypt, home to more than 1,000 species of exotic fish, spectacular corals and a magnet for diving enthusiasts from all over the world, lay undisturbed today in the aftermath of this week's shark attacks.
Tourists, usually clambering into wetsuits and queuing for snorkelling equipment from early morning, anxiously patrolled the water's edge or sipped consolatory cocktails under the thatched umbrellas lining the beach.
A handful had packed their bags and left. Others said they would never return to Sharm el-Sheikh after witnessing the gory attacks which left four people badly injured.
Bloodstains were still visible on the paved path backing Tiran beach where two of the attacks took place on Wednesday. Few here, at least, were reassured by the capture and killing of two sharks by marine authorities the following day.
Nina Dydzinski, 46, from Wigan, was lying on the beach when the tranquillity of her holiday was pierced by shouts in Russian of "Shark! Shark!".
"I had just come in from the water where I'd been snorkelling close to the beach," she said. "I heard a man shouting. Everyone panicked," she said.
Her husband, Jarostaw, 49, was in the water when the shark struck. People scrambled for safety, he said. "Everyone was trying to climb on the jetty."
Mohamed Rashad, a barman at the nearby al-Bahr beach restaurant, saw one man running from the sea with blood streaming from gashes in his leg. "The sea went red," he said.
Minutes later, the shark attacked again. The victim was plucked from the water by rescuers from a local diving centre. "Four men carried the man," said Nina Dydzinski. "The water was full of blood. One hand was hanging by a pinch of skin." Rashad said the man's foot "was gone". The beach quickly emptied, according to the barman. "All the people ran away back to the hotel, no one wanted to stay on the beach. Now it's very quiet. People are scared to come to the beach. They are just coming to the bar to have a drink. They don't even want to stay on the sunbeds."
Wednesday's attack was the second in two days. In total three Russians and a Ukrainian were bitten by the shark and transferred to hospital in Cairo with injuries to their limbs and backs.
The authorities acted speedily, closing Sharm el-Sheikh's world-famous beaches and sending out conservation teams to track and capture the shark, identified as an oceanic white tip. Yesterday, Egypt's environment ministry said two sharks had been caught and were being dissected to examine the contents of their stomachs. One, it said, was similar to a shark photographed by a diver minutes before the first attack.
Tourists staying in hotels near the scene of the second attack were unimpressed. "I saw the man screaming, with blood all around him," said Gromova Galina, 53, from Nizhny Novgorod, in Russia, on her first holiday in Sharm el-Sheikh. "I won't go back in the water, I can't. It's very dangerous. I am very, very scared. There is nothing to save us."
But further along the coastline, hotel guests were more phlegmatic. In the Hilton Sharks Bay resort, a London woman who declined to give her name was trying to find out whether Gatwick had reopened for her return flight. "To be honest I'm more bothered about the snow than the shark," she said. "I'd definitely go back in [the water] if they say they've caught it. When your time's up, your time's up. You have to take your chances don't you?"
Denise Rhodes, 54, was staying at the five-star Coral Bay Domina for a fortnight in the sun. "It doesn't bother me," she said, adding that she would be "in the water tomorrow" if the beaches reopen. "I want to use my snorkel. It might sound daft, but if things are going to happen, they'll happen. You don't let it spoil your holiday, do you?"
Shark attacks around Sharm el-Sheikh are unusual, according to Marcus Maurer, the manager of the Extra Dive Centre, whose staff rescued one of the victims. But tourists must share the blame for the attacks, he said.
"These are open water sharks. The biggest problem is people feeding the fish. The fish are an attraction, people like to see them. But if people throw food in the water, the fish come inside the reef and maybe the sharks follow the fish. They are changing the behaviour of the animals."
Along the beach, notices in several languages say: "All unused food and packaging must be put in the garbage container. Food may not be eaten in the sea or within a four-foot perimeter around the sea."
Divers, said Maurer, were taught how to react to the presence of a shark. "They know to stay calm, don't kick or swim fast, don't beat the shark. But snorkellers and swimmers have no experience or training ? they panic. Then the shark starts to hunt."
He had never had a problem with sharks in more than 3,000 dives over 13 years. "People have to learn it's not our territory, it's the territory of the animals. If we go there, we have to respect the marine life."
Ezat Ezat, 39, of The Wave diving centre, claimed it was the first shark attack around Sharm el-Sheikh for 15 years, although other locals said there had been an attack two years ago.
This week's events would not put off the resort's annual tally of three million tourists, said Ezat, particularly those that come specifically to dive amid the sharks that frequent the Red Sea. "People want to see sharks, they get angry if there are none around. It's good for us to go and see the sharks, but not so good when the sharks come to see us."
Back on the beach, Nina Dydzinski was looking forward to getting back to Wigan. "I will never come back to Sharm, and I will never snorkel again," she said. "It's been a very big stress. I'm very glad to be going home. There might be a lot of snow in Wigan, but at least there are no sharks."
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