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Re: [OFNT] [AOBT] The Alliance Of Bitcointalk Translators
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Porfirii
on 03/10/2024, 15:26:45 UTC
That sounds great Gazeta! I' ashamed to admit that geing so close to that continent I have never visited it, I have no excuse.

Can you tell us more about your vacation without revealing your identity or compromising your privacy? Perhaps some generalisation.

I was in Egypt... I was in Hurghada, Luxor, Cairo and Alexandria. These are amazing places and full of history... Besides the pyramids of Keops, Kefren and Mykerinos and besides the Great Sphinx I also visited the ruins of ancient capital Memphis, Valley of the Kings, Egyptian Museum from Cairo... I had a boat trip on Nile to Banana island... I visited temples, citadels... I saw the place of the ancient Lighthouse of Alexandria, which was one of the seven world wonders of ancient world -- now on that place we can find a big citadel with a mosque inside it, and the mosque is built like Hagia Sophia from Istanbul... The Lighthouse collapsed after multiple earthquakes, last one being in year 1303 if I am not wrong... I saw the new library of Alexandria, built on the same place of The Great Library, which was another world wonder of the seven world wonders of ancient world, burned by Caesar in 48 BC... I saw also Pompey's pillar, about which it's said that Egyptians killed him, due to atrocious oppression exerted by Romans upon them, and placed his head,in a jar, on top of tat pillar...

I find amazing the fact that, from all seven ancient world wonders, THREE of them were in Egypt -- the pyramids, the Lighthouse and the Great Library...

I also made a boat trip to Eden island, which is part of a group of islands located near Hurghada and which are called Maldives of Egypt -- needless to say, the landscape / turquoise water were spectacular...

Wow, congratulations on such a wonderful holiday Gazeta, and thanks for sharing the experience with us (plus the brief History class).

Amazing that fact, and a bit sad that they were partially lost due to time, but also humans.

When you mentioned Africa I was thinking in something like safaris, Ngorongoro and places like that, but a destination like Egypt made more sense now in hindsight.