Samoans in Egypt :)


We travelled to Egypt on the 27th Feb 06 and went to see as much as possible. However we were surprised at the airport from the moment our dear friends Talaat and Fifi picked us up we rode in a taxi to their home in Helwan and that was one heck of a ride. Cars were coming from all sides and Alex and I were all clenched up at the way they drove in Cairo. What was a three lane road was used as a six lane road. Cars were just going the way they liked... just crazy, however it works and the Egyptians are sure used to it. Moreover people are part of the throng! Just amazing people dodgin in and out of the traffic. It was something else.
We went to the Egyptian museum on the first day and saw alot of mummies and old Egyptian artefacts and statues salvaged from the temples and tombs. We saw the infamous King Tutankhamun artefacts that were discovered in his tomb every thing was gold including the coffins as well... Amazing stuff looked really heavy and the jewellery that he was adorned with there were 365 gold ornaments pinned to his mummy to protect him for everyday of the year in his journey to the afterlife. The belief the Egyptians in the Afterlife is evident in the preparations they put into preparing the dead and adorning the mummies including the tombs they were buried in. This we later saw in the valley of the kings with writings and pictures on all sides of the tombs. You have to go there to see for yourself and experience it as we did!!

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