{"id":233,"date":"2008-12-14T10:43:45","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T08:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/?p=233"},"modified":"2008-12-14T10:43:45","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T08:43:45","slug":"mafeesh-convoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/2008\/12\/14\/mafeesh-convoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mafeesh Convoy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"bear in the air\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/travel\/plaindealer\/index.ssf?\/base\/living-2\/1229160670151940.xml&amp;coll=2\">This article<\/a> claims that the Egyptian government has lifted the restrictions on tourist travel.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you that don&#8217;t know, traveling almost anywhere outside Cairo by car or bus involves a convoy. The 2 places where most people encounter this is<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>on the Nile between Luxor and Aswan. There are many temples there, and most people can only get to them on a cruise or a bus tour.<\/li>\n<li>between Abu Simbel and Aswan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All the buses and cars have to meet at a checkpoint, and they all travel together.  So they all arrive, more or less, together. Which means hundreds of tourists hitting the temple all at once. Such joy.<\/p>\n<p>If the article is true, it means that it is should now be much easier to travel within Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>It means, insh&#8217;allah, no hurtling death rides from Aswan to Abu Simbel.<\/p>\n<p>It also means, insh&#8217;allah, that it will be possible to rent a car and travel alone at one owns pace down the nile and tour the temples when *I* want to, instead of arriving on a bus with 50 of my closest friends.<\/p>\n<p>I am skeptical, because I have had to wait for a police escort when traveling even in areas that don&#8217;t require convoys&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article claims that the Egyptian government has lifted the restrictions on tourist travel. For those of you that don&#8217;t know, traveling almost anywhere outside Cairo by car or bus involves a convoy. The 2 places where most people encounter this is on the Nile between Luxor and Aswan. There are many temples there, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}