On any trip, fatigue will invariably set in, no matter how excited you are to be away from home. In this case, it was on a 12-hour train ride from Luxor to Cairo sitting in between cars, without seats, in the small doorway areas Egyptians frequently enter to smoke a pack of cigarettes. Cigarette smoke is bad enough outside, but in a train car where there's no way to escape, it's impossible to breathe.
Couple that with extremely cold compartments, Egyptians who will not stop jabbering away in 3ameya until 5 AM, and a man carrying a computer CPU who's trying to get secret photos of your friends (girls) with his phone camera...and you've got yourself one hell of a ride.
That said, what could at best be called a "cultural experience" was at an all-time high, as we learned what it truly means to get a "standing ticket."
Not to worry, Luxor and Aswan made up for all this. Pictures soon.
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