Out of Africa

Yep, we're back in Cairo. Didn't get mauled or eaten by anything, and the worst parasite I seem to have gotten was a mild cold, but that's probably more related to the several changes in altitude, airliner recylcled air and other such traveller perils. Of course, dengue fever and Malaria both have about 4 day incubating periods, so there's still hope.

The safari was amazing. I won't get into details save for I saw a crapload of animals, and several that are very rare to see on a safari. The only things we missed were hyenas and the black rhino, but given there's like 4 of them left between the 4 parks we visited, that's okay. We saw the white rhinos anyway, so that's cool.

I'm pretty homesick now. We were in a fancy hotel in Nairobi on new year's eve and the band downstairs started playing a bit of swing... made me really miss home. I'm about ready to go. We still have the whalebone desert to see, which should be awesome, but I miss Erin (who seems to forgotten how to EMAIL ME BACK and doesn't ANSWER THE PHONE) and other stuff too. Although, it is really warm here which is awesome... haha, - 25.... suckers.

Anyway, I should go, we're going to the khan khalili today, so we'll try not to get ripped off. On an interesting note, Egyptians are really easy to bargain with cuz they tend to look mean and be really agressive and the shop keepers tend to do pretty good, and will try to rip off tourists a lot. Kenyansl, and especially the Maasai people, are much harder to bargain with, because they are polite, smiley, friendly, and tend to need the money to send kids to school (not everywhere, there are rich tourist traps too), but its hard to bargain down to %20 of the original price when the money sends the cheif of the tribe's son to high school so he can become a teacher to teach the other children in the tribe.

Okay, off to find a parasite at a local restaurant.