Cairo Trots

Yeah, still in Cairo and it's only a day after the last update. That's because I've got the afternoon free. We were supposed to be going to the Egyptian Museum today but a little thing called "really bad diarrhea" put a stop to that. It showed up last night and hit both Dave and I and at least one of the girls on the tour as well. Not sure what caused it but it's a goodie. The food here can get you at any time. Even KFC is dodgy because the wash the lettuce under the tap. This morning was spent sleeping between trips to the toilet and now I think both of us have nothing left to give so have ventured out to use the internet. We needed something to do and don't want to go too far. Fortunately there's a KFC across the road from the internet cafe. So we're on the gastrolyte solution right now and hopefully the bug will clear up pretty quick.

I forgot to mention yesterday that we saw a funny sight at the pyramids. One of the girls in our group was taking a photo of a dodgy guy on a camel. These guys hang around and try to get money from tourists by offering camel rides or posing for photos. He then came up to her and offered her his camel whip and took her camera so that he could take a photo. She really shouldn't have handed over the camera. Next thing we know he's on the camel and walking off with the camera. We started yelling at him and a policeman on a camel rocks up, dismounts and goes over to the guy with the camera and starts hitting him with a camel whip. He was mostly hitting the camel actually. The guy gave back the camera after that. The policeman was obviously getting a taste for it because he then chased after some local boys who were just hanging around and threatened to whip them too. Very funny stuff. Gotta love an angry tourist policeman with a camel whip!