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Originally posted by TheSmutPeddlerDOTcom
Anyone here (American or Canadian) been to Egypt lately? I'd like to make a trip to the pyramids one day, but now is not a great time for an American to be in that area and I don't know if it's only going to get worse. If you were there lately, was it very safe or what?
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I was there in January 2000 and it was fine back then.
Tourism is Egypt's lifeblood. They need that foreign currency rolling in to compensate for the fact that 90% of their land is sand.
There was one massacre back a decade or so ago where a bunch of tourists were killed but I think they have beefed up security a bit since then.
Anyway, don't let all this terrorism bullshit stop you from living your life. I mean, you're just going to check out some pyramids and sphinxes and shit. My advice is to keep a low profile and tell everyone you're Canadian.
