🇪🇬 Egypt

Hej! I share an extract of my experience of visiting authentic Egypt. I was there in the autumn of 2011. Below are some notes on what I tasted, saw and listened to.

Important: I only share my own experience and recommend the things I personally tried and liked. Therefore, everything written below is extremely subjective, and also does not cover all the wonderful local attributes and places ☺️.

🗺 Places: Sharm El-Sheikh.

🏛 Top sights visited:

1. Sharm El-Sheikh
   • Ras Mohamed Nature Reserve (راس محمد)
   • Sharm El-Sheikh Beaches (شواطئ شرم الشيخ)
   • Red Sea Fauna (حيوانات البحر الأحمر)
   • Egyptian Deserts (الصحارى)

🎧 Local musicians:

• 🇪🇬 Hisham Abbas (singer). Genre: pop
• 🇪🇬 Sherine (singer). Genre: pop
• 🇪🇬 Mohamed Hamaki (singer). Genre: pop
• 🇺🇳 Aly & Fila (DJ duo). Genre: trance

🎚️ Contribution to EDM:

• Tape Music. Originated: mid-1940s

🥘 Local food & drinks:

• Koshary (كشرى)
• Ful Medames (فول مدمس)
• Karkadé Tea (كَركَديه)
• Aish Baladi (عيش بلدي)
• Basbousa (بسبوسه)

🎬 Local movies:

• Café Regular, Cairo (قهوة عادي). Year: 2012. Genre: short / drama
  

🪔 Authentic artifacts:

• The Culture of Copts (أقباط / ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ)
• The Culture of Ancient Egyptians (المصريون القدماء / 𓎡𓅓𓏏𓊖)
• Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs (الهيروغليفية المصرية)
• Ancient Egyptian Architecture (العمارة المصرية القديمة)
• Ancient Egyptian Mythology (أساطير مصرية)
• Ancient Egyptian Sarcophaguses & Mummies (التوابيت المصرية القديمة)
• The Maxims of Ptahhotep (أقوال بتاح حتب)
• Desert Safari (رحلات السفاري الصحراوية)
• The Henna Painting (رسمة الحناء)
• Authentic Garb: Galabiya (جالبيا)

🦉 Local wisdom: “He who has been burnt by the soup, would puff at the yogurt” / “اللى اتلسع من الشوربة ينفخ فى الزبادى” — Egyptian proverb

👨‍🎓 The oldest university: The Al-Azhar University (جامعة الأزهر الشريف), Cairo, est. 970.