workingpoor Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Breaking: http://news.sky.com/story/1618343/gunmen-open-fire-on-tourist-bus-in-egypt Egyptian authorities are hunting two masked gunmen who opened fire on a tourist bus near the Giza pyramids. Security sources in Cairo said there have been no deaths among the group of holidaymakers, which included two Israelis. An official said there had been some damage to the facade of the Three Pyramids Hotel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freeholder Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Egypt still has a tourist industry, wow, those folk have bigger balls than me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Not the first time attacks like this have happened in Egypt, however in the current climate I certainly wouldn't risk going there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snafu Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Why anyone would tourist in Egypt is beyond me. I'd like to know if people who end up being kidnapped/murdered in exotic locations are always the ones who always say "naaaaw there's NOTHING to worry about"? I'm clearly on the paranoid spectrum (not in the medical sense) as I even avoided large crowds in Moscow just after the plane blew up from Egypt. Maybe that's just me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juvenal Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Being caught in a hail of bullets really takes the shine off that camel ride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilf Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Why anyone would tourist in Egypt is beyond me. I'd like to know if people who end up being kidnapped/murdered in exotic locations are always the ones who always say "naaaaw there's NOTHING to worry about"? I'm clearly on the paranoid spectrum (not in the medical sense) as I even avoided large crowds in Moscow just after the plane blew up from Egypt. Maybe that's just me. 900,000 UK citizens visit Egypt per year, so clearly not that bothered. Haven't actually heard of anybody being killed so your odds are pretty good. I won't bother with the normal warnings about crossing roads, or whatever. Having said that, been to Egypt one, would never go back, total toilet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turned Out Nice Again Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Our first visit to Luxor (including a side-trip up to Cairo) was just after 60 German tourists had been machine-gunned at one of the temples. Flight + 5 star Nile view hotel room < £100 for the week. It was one of the most interesting countries I have ever visited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 I went to Egypt a few times, but not as a tourist. Of course I went to see pyramids. Egypt is probably pretty safe, despite this event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
workingpoor Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 I don't think 900,000 uk citizens a year visit Egypt anymore (or russian tourists for that matter) The damage is done now, there may have still been some determined to see the Pyramids up until todays attack where those people came out of their hotel to board coaches to the Pyramids and were subject to a fusilade of bullets. Theres no windows left on the coaches and the front of the hotel is all shot up. The 2 gunmen are still on the run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyguy Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Any news on their religion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Any news on their religion? Yes well, it's Egypt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyguy Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 I sort of feel sorry for the Egyptians who do not buy into some sort of middle-aged version of Islam. A relative has finished a stint in Syria with an international org. I pick up on hi Syrian friends. The men + women he befriended their come cross as pretty on their FB - they are far more social progressed than the Mipuri hill-billies who have took up residence in Bradford + Luton. To be honest, a lot of the women are hot. Again, this is Damascus rather than some desert sh1thole, Its a shame we cannot do a 1-for-1 swap, replace our Mipuries with the Syrian middle class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyguy Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Being caught in a hail of bullets really takes the shine off that camel ride. And really hurt if you were sub-burnt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Bowman Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Why anyone would tourist in Egypt is beyond me. I'd like to know if people who end up being kidnapped/murdered in exotic locations are always the ones who always say "naaaaw there's NOTHING to worry about"? I'm clearly on the paranoid spectrum (not in the medical sense) as I even avoided large crowds in Moscow just after the plane blew up from Egypt. Maybe that's just me. You are because surely a large crowd in Moscow after that incident was a very very safe place to be...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trampa501 Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Are they trying to twin with Manchester? http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/07/police-very-concerned-spate-shootings-greater-manchester Of course if you're not involved with the gangs in Manchester you're unlikely to become a target...not unknown for "mistakes" to be made though.. Mexico's another place where multiple murders often take place and still the tourists go, but are generally not a target. Would I go to Egypt? Seems a bit risky just to cross off "seeing the pyramids in person". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
workingpoor Posted January 9, 2016 Author Share Posted January 9, 2016 Police officer & a Soldier shot dead in Giza http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/09/egypt-police-officer-soldier-killed-giza-cairo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybong Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 The tourists seem a bit like the way Japanese soldiers were portrayed to behave during World War 2 - wave after wave dying in their thousands and still they came. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 When I saw pyramids I went on a horse. Camels are too wobbly. Nobody shot me at all. Cairo has 20 million people! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
workingpoor Posted January 9, 2016 Author Share Posted January 9, 2016 The 2 dead policemen were shot just near the Pyramids at Giza http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/egypt-attacks-two-police-officers-shot-dead-by-unidentified-gunmen-near-pyramids-of-giza-in-cairo-a6803746.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 The 2 dead policemen were shot just near the Pyramids at Giza I am sorry to hear that! Egyptian police are very polite, even if you drive the wrong way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
workingpoor Posted January 21, 2016 Author Share Posted January 21, 2016 Terror at the Pyramids again: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3410631/Bomb-attack-kills-three-policemen-Cairo.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail the Tripod Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 When I saw pyramids I went on a horse. Camels are too wobbly. Nobody shot me at all. Cairo has 20 million people! I did that. Coming out of the desert onto the pyramid site on horseback is a powerful experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEATH Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 I am thinking of setting up one of those dodgy grotto type things over here. Luxor - New Forest. Experience the Pyramids and Pharaohs, 30mins from London. Family of 4 just £40. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail the Tripod Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 I am thinking of setting up one of those dodgy grotto type things over here. Luxor - New Forest. Experience the Pyramids and Pharaohs, 30mins from London. Family of 4 just £40. That's not very ambitious. Have you not looked at the prices for Lapland UK? £90/person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sPinwheel Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 That's not very ambitious. Have you not looked at the prices for Lapland UK? £90/person.Wow for that price he could hire a few inflatable pyramids! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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