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Wreck Beach
posted by ldraudy on 11 January 2011 at 12:56
This is the only clothing optional beach in Vancouver with about a 50/50 split between nudists and peopel wearing swimming costumes. Even if you're not there for the nude swimming, it's really worth going just for the laid back hippy vibe. We'd heard that police really turn a blind eye here and its certainly true that the beach was swathed in pot fumes and there were illegal vendors everywhere selling watermellon doused in vodka.
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take the cliff cut staircase that starts near to the museum of anthropology
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WARNING! Fruit and veg
posted by kelless on 11 January 2011 at 12:48
Thought I better warn people about the perils of fruit and veg markets in Cairo. They may look pretty but the potential stomach upsets that they can cause certainly aren't! To keep the fruit looking fresh and appetizing, many of the stalls will douse their fruit and veg with water. I can assure you that they don't use mineral water and just as you wouldn't drink tap water, you really shouldn't eat fruit that has been doused in it. Of course all fruit with a skin is fine but don't have apples or grapes or anything like that, I survived the experience but wouldn't care to repeat it.
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all over town
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extremely budget hotels
posted by vbastion on 11 January 2011 at 12:33
On an economy drive at the end of a long trip around Africa, we decided to stay at one of Cairo's numerous budget hostels, that are grouped around the edge of the Islamic Quarter. You pay about a pound a night to stay here and shouldn't expect any comfort or luxury. I really enjoyed staying there though as it was a really great place to meet fellow backpackers with interesting tales to tell.
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all over town.
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Northern Cemmetery
posted by cjyllian on 11 January 2011 at 12:27
Known as the City of the Dead, this is the part of Cairo that you've all heard of where people have made homes amongst the tombs and the graves. It sounds eerie and tghreatening but it's actually not at all. Whilst you will feel like a bit of an oddity walking around here, people are actually quite friendly and welcoming to you when you come.
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Cab drivers will take you there if you ask for Arafa - which means cemmetary
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Egyptian Museum
posted by jdryfus on 11 January 2011 at 12:21
Having visited the Louvre and the British Museum, I found it hard to believe that there could be anything left in Egypt from the Pharonic period. I was surprised, then to find that there were more sarcophagi,scarabs and sculptures in the Museum than there was possibly space to accomodate, stuff was falling out of cupboards and stacked three- deep on shelves. Still, wonderful and worth seeing.
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downtown Cairo
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