Egypt
- Tour Guides At The Giza Ask For Tourists To Return
The Telegraph, UK (Nick Meo) Some held up signs with a Valentine's Day theme saying "Egypt loves you" and insisted that it was safe for foreigners to come back. The tourist industry has been badly hit by weeks of turmoil at the peak of the holiday...
- Camels, Hawass And Giza
boston.com Sed Ali dug his heels into the hindquarters of a small, gray, Arabian-style horse, weaving through a pack of dilapidated camels as he trotted across the sand. Ali was giving our group of Northeastern University students a guided tour of the...
- More Re Tidying Up The Giza Plateau
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) With photographs. Who has not heard cries of complaint from visitors to the Pyramids of the confusion of ticket buying, the persistence of touts foisting horse and camel rides on tourists and the lack of toilets? All that...
- Pyramids Of Giza In Peril
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/208677An eye-opening look at some of the problems facing conservation of the Giza pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, highlighting the problems caused by camel touts, but also raising everything from accidental...
- Update On The Grand Egyptian Museum
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article2426221.eceA comprehensive overview of the Grand Egyptian Museum, currently under construction near the pyramids of Giza: "The modern world has not been kind to the pyramids of Giza. Just a generation...
Egypt
Giza's camel touts
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0508/p20s01-litr.html
An article that takes a close look at the camel touts who work the Giza plateau, describing the business from the point of view of one camel tout: "Every half hour or so, a policeman spurs his snoozing steed into action, and lollops around the pyramid's base, chasing the touts away. The touts' camels reel and totter on their huge, two-toed feet, before breaking into an ungainly sprint as they disappear behind the nearest sandbank in a cloud of dust. Minutes later, they reappear and it all begins again. These touts are as much a part of the history of the pyramids as the limestone blocks themselves. As long as there have been tourists, they've been here. It's a profession handed down from father to son, and despite being feared or loathed by many visitors, most, like Wallid el-Kerim, love their work. Easygoing Mr. Kerim, born and bred in the backstreets of Giza, is one of those for whom the job is a family heirloom."
A fascinating insight - see the above web page for the entire article.
- Tour Guides At The Giza Ask For Tourists To Return
The Telegraph, UK (Nick Meo) Some held up signs with a Valentine's Day theme saying "Egypt loves you" and insisted that it was safe for foreigners to come back. The tourist industry has been badly hit by weeks of turmoil at the peak of the holiday...
- Camels, Hawass And Giza
boston.com Sed Ali dug his heels into the hindquarters of a small, gray, Arabian-style horse, weaving through a pack of dilapidated camels as he trotted across the sand. Ali was giving our group of Northeastern University students a guided tour of the...
- More Re Tidying Up The Giza Plateau
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) With photographs. Who has not heard cries of complaint from visitors to the Pyramids of the confusion of ticket buying, the persistence of touts foisting horse and camel rides on tourists and the lack of toilets? All that...
- Pyramids Of Giza In Peril
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/208677An eye-opening look at some of the problems facing conservation of the Giza pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, highlighting the problems caused by camel touts, but also raising everything from accidental...
- Update On The Grand Egyptian Museum
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article2426221.eceA comprehensive overview of the Grand Egyptian Museum, currently under construction near the pyramids of Giza: "The modern world has not been kind to the pyramids of Giza. Just a generation...