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Day 2 Evening: Giza Train Station ~ The overnight train to Aswan
If anyone were to say that by the evening of Day 2 he or she wasn't tired, then I will clasp my hands and kow tow to him/her.
It was long enough a day, to say the least.
But our adrenaline were set pumping come that evening, knowing that we were going to take an over night train down south to the city of Aswan.
The timing was just nice. We returned from Giza in time for us to grab a quick shower and our luggage to cheong to the Giza Train Station.'
Our train was scheduled to leave at 7:30pm.
Adrian was very diplomatic in getting our expectations right.
A few lao-kok-kok train pulled up into the track. All of us stared at the run-down trains with our mouths opened wide.
AlexK was the first to talk:
"Wei, Adrian! This one is our over night train ah?!!!"
Adrian replied:
"Er... actually it is not. Ours is a little better than this one."
We all:
"Heng ah!!!"
Continued Adrian:
"But hor... don't have your hopes too high, guys. Our train is probably something like what we get in Sapa."
Whatever lah.
It looked like our train was going to be delayed for carriage after carriage, the trains came and gone.
But ours hadn't turn up yet.
Anyone would've thought that we'd all be bored to death.
But heck no.
This Giza Train Station was a gold mine. It held a plethora of photographic opportunities for us to shoot pictures of the locals in their attire.
And the most most interesting thing is... they were all pretty amenable to being photographed here on this fateful night!
If I wasn't wrong, Ageless was the first to get going with his rangefinder camera.
The rest of us followed suit.
And the rest was history.
Melvin and Adrian got us to gather our luggage on the platform so that our 'security guard' can jagar.
Er... here is one of our few security guards:
"Hot ah! Hot ah!.. Got to use my mini-fan to keep blowing," said she.
"Come, Melvin," exlaimed Acpical excitedly.
"Let's go shoot some Egyptian men and ladies!"
I didn't know what happened. But all I knew was AlexK, Melvin, Acpical were all gathered around Ageless looking at his shots.
We all went crazy shooting. But honestly, we all did it in a discreet way still, so as not to offend the locals.
Luckily vngks was not susceptible to the poisoning... Lol...
While a group of us were busy at work, Adrian and gang were busy looking after our barang barang.
And our most handsome guide Lotfy was also very hard-working. Really.
He guided some of us to buy bottled water, led us to the toilets, and he taught me how to say "I want to pass urine" in Egyptian Arabic.
"Ana-ous A-tar-tar."
But sheepishly, he said to me not to say this sentences in front of Egyptian ladies because it wasn't too elegant.
Hehe... here is the handsome man himself, taking five on his stick.