How Bazaar!

Just got back from visiting a bazaar in Aswan which is the 3rd largest city in Egypt. So many interesting smells with incense and other spices burning and various foods plus the smell of horse dung. Some of the horses pulling carts are sad sights. So many ribs on display.
I was walking through the bazaar with four of the girls on my tour and it was very entertaining because many of the stall holders would yell out "4 women for him, hello Casanova", "lucky man, 4 women!" or "One hundred camels for that one!". All i could do was nod my head and grin. The girls were getting most of the attention though. Marriage proposals, "hello Miss Australia" to some dirtier lines. very entertaining. One of the girls bought a nice small Egyptian patterned box. Bargained very well and walked away in disgust eventually because he wouldn't give it to her for the price she wanted. He then backed down and said that her price was fine. She then caught him trying to substitute the box for a cheaper one so he wasn't too happy about it all in the end.
I didn't think i'd be writing this often in the blog but we are having trouble with our travel agent. We were looking through all the details he had given us and found a few problems. He'd had to change something because a flight wasn't available and ended up pushing out our whole schedule for the final week or so after the two tours are complete. The final flight back to Melbourne leaves at 2.15pm yet we don't arrive in johannesburg until half an hour after the plane leaves. That's the worst of the mistakes. We've been trying to contact him and when we finally spoke and asked him to call us back in our hotel he said he'd call in 20mins yet never did. The guy is worse than useless and we curse his name at every opportunity. I'm not too concerned because we'll get it sorted somehow but if he doesn't get his act together and at least reply to our emails then we are vowing to bring him down and get damn good free flights out of flight centre for our trouble. So the email gets checked every now and then which is why i get to update the blog so often.
Finally, happy birthday to Luke (my brother), a cheap souvenir present is coming your way when i get back! :)