Alright, good morning guys. We're here in Luxor, Egypt. I'm here with my friend Azzam. There he is.
We slept a little bit more after the train and now we're at our hostel here.
New Everest Hostel in Luxor. We're about to have some breakfast, and then we are gonna go explore the
east bank of Luxor today. And this is all from the itinerary that my friend Fatma gave me from Cairo.
So thanks Fatma. We're up on the rooftop here of our hostel. So we're gonna have a quick breakfast....
It's so hot here. It's so much hotter than Cairo here. I think I'm gonna burn and become so red.
Gonna get nice and fried. This is the included breakfast with the stay here at New Everest Hostel,
which costs about nine dollars a night, I believe, for a private room with the bathroom in the room.
So amazing value. Check it out, you got fresh orange juice, we got bread that was just dropped off by
the bakery, I saw today when we arrived. So good, like Egyptian flatbread. Egg omelette, just cooked,
ful, the Egyptian staple, bananas, some cheese, and some jelly.... All included in the price. So amazing.
Alright guys so we are out here. Gonna go to Luxor Temple, yeah? Yeah. Right along the
street by our hostel. And we're gonna check it out. It's right along the Nile, too, and
I can see it already up ahead.
Wow, so cool. Alright guys, we're inside Luxor Temple, and Luxor in general has like a
treasure trove of Egyptian ruins and history and everything, but this is one of the big ones here,
Luxor Temple, and it's right along the Nile, so check it out.
Alright, so that was the Luxor Temple. And there's another big one here to see on the
east bank-- So, Luxor is split between the east bank and the west bank of the Nile.
On the east bank apparently-- I'm sure there's a lot more, many more things to see, but the big two are
Luxor Temple, which we just did, and then there's the Karnak Temple. We are going to go to Karnak
I think tomorrow morning, because it's gonna be dark soon. And then the next day maybe we'll go
to the west bank and we'll see. But for right now, we're gonna go relax, right buddy? Yeah, we're gonna
relax. And we're gonna go walk along the Nile, it'll be very relaxing,
and then we're gonna go have a beer, and enjoy our first evening in Luxor. Yeah. Okay, yalla.
Man, and this is almost so peaceful next to the Nile, except for the
many people yelling at you to take a ride on their horse carriage or their
boat, but other than that it's very peaceful. Check it out, wow.
Yeah, I'm Egyptian!
So, to be honest, the hassle in Egypt so far for me has been
pretty extreme and real. You really have to look out for people just hassling you to buy any and
every which thing, you have to really negotiate the prices. They say anything you're gonna buy
here in the market, you should really cut the price in half when you start. So if they ask for
200 Egyptian pounds, you start at 100 and maybe you'll settle at like 120 or 130 or something.
But it's intense. And yeah, I've already had a couple issues, to be honest, with getting
overcharged for things. It's probably best to come here with a tour guide, which I have Azzam, which
I'm lucky, but when I'm alone it's much harder to know that I'm getting a fair price, you know?
Our tour guide for the temple here is a really nice guy, he said
the best strategy for dealing with these guys that are trying to sell you horse carriage rides and
taxis and boat rides is to just completely ignore them, because if you even engage with them or say
no thank you, they're gonna just keep talking and never leave you alone, which we already experienced
when we walked outside of the of the hostel this morning. That's advice from an Egyptian. See, I'm
even getting yelled at right now from the river, and he's like way down there on the banks,
and I'm way up here. So it's a lot, but you just have to be prepared for that if you come to Egypt.
Check out the temple from across the street here, you can kind of see the whole thing.
You got the obelisk, the four guards there at the front, and then the whole thing.
And the mosque over there.
And the mosque, yeah. Just to give you an idea of the foreigner price here versus the
Egyptian price, I paid 160 pounds to get into the temple, which is like, I don't know, like ten
dollars or so. And Azzam paid the Egyptian student price, which is five pounds, which is like 30 cents.
Because I'm a student.
Because you're a student. And I'm an Egyptian too. Yeah I know, but even if you were an
Egyptian and not a student, it would be like 10 pounds? Thirty. 30 pounds, so two dollars. It's wild.
So, beautiful place here. I think right now should we go grab a beer on the rooftop and relax a little bit?
Yeah. Alright. We need to relax. We need to relax. Azzam here had some job issues earlier,
so he's been a little bit stressed today, isn't that right? This is so right. I'm so stressed.
So we're gonna go have a Stella beer or something, maybe. I wanna have cola. Corona?
Cola. Cola! You want cola? No beer? No. Yeah, and as we're walking along, you can see this. We're walking
along the Nile kind of, a little more inland. And you can see this road here, let me spin
the camera around.... And this goes all the way from Karnak Temple down to Luxor Temple where
we just were, there in the distance. And this road is lined with the sphinxes, or at least it was, you know.
These statues there.... And they were on every one of these pedestals leading all along the road.
So cool. Could you imagine when there was nothing else here, it was so totally ancient?
Alright, we made it up to a rooftop. And this is really the best view so far, check it out. Yeah, Luxor Temple,
and the Nile, west bank with the mountains, and the road that leads all the way to Karnak.
And over here you can see kind of the whole view of Luxor City. There's a church,
and there are all the dreaded horse carriage men.
Hey Doug. Hey! What are you doing? Oh, we're just hanging out. We're about to enjoy a
beautiful sunset with a nice Stella Egyptian beer, it's gonna be great.
No beer for Azzam though, only cola. Isn't that right? This is right. I only use drink cola.
This is my beer. Cola is my beer. Yes, cola is your beer. Azzam just can't get enough cola.
Guys, this sunset is absolutely beautiful, and to help you enjoy it, Azzam is gonna sing a song. Go ahead!
Beautiful, bro. Thank you so much. You're welcome, bro.
You're going to be the next Egyptian pop star, god willing. Seriously? Yes. I will wait.
Guys, look at the lighting right now with the sunset on the temple. Oh my God. It's amazing.
And the sphinx! Yeah they're lit up. The sphinxes.... Sphinxes! Sphinxes....
Wow. Oh, we're very zoomed in. That's better. Alright, let's go. Let's go have some dinner.
Alright guys, we're here. I took Azzam to a very fancy date night.
And we're going to eat some traditional Egyptian food. And I think I'm going to try the stuffed
pigeon, which is a famous thing in Egypt, right? Yeah. It's good? Everyone arrives in Egypt and asks for pigeon.
Really? Yeah. Pigeon, if I ate it in New York, I would probably get sick and die.
They're so dirty in New York. But uh, here I'm gonna try it and-- molokhia here costs 110 pounds? Molokhia?
My mother makes molokhia for me for free. Yeah, well, it's a restaurant, you have to pay.... But not 100....
So I'm getting the Hamam Mahshi: Pigeon stuffed with rice or rubbed wheat, chopped onion
and fresh herbs, charcoal grilled or fried. What's better, grilled or fried? What's the traditional way?
Fried is the traditional way in Egypt. Alright, fried it is. Wow, look at this restaurant, it's so cool.
I love it. Thank you. And it's called, um, what's this restaurant called again? Sofra. Sofra!
Wow, look at it. Yeah, would you like to give the narration? Go ahead. Yeah.
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I'm so-- you're amazing, that was so great. Okay. You will find here a lot of
traditional and "oriental" food-- Oriental in Egypt means Egyptian. Because in America, oriental food
is like Chinese, Japanese.... but anyway. My camera's almost out of battery, so I'll
be back to review the pigeon! Subscribe and like our channel.
Our channel?! Yeah. When you spend a lot of time in Egypt, it will be my channel. Okay.
Alright guys, and this, to start off the meal, is a
banana juice, which basically tastes like a banana smoothie, and it's so good.
Oh.... I love it so much. I could drink this every day.
I told you that you have to live in Egypt. We'll see about that.
Alright guys, the pigeon has arrived.
Check it out. That's where they pulled the head off I think. Looks very fancy,
and it's stuffed with rice. Alright Azzam, take it away. How do we do this? Yes....
Act like me.
But otherwise, we are eating pigeon with our hands. With a hand? Yeah. No way. Oh my gosh, really? That's the right way? Yeah.
So hot. So hot? Wait, you really just grab it and pull it apart? Yeah. Okay....
Ah! It's too hot!
Ow! Ow! You really do it with your hands?
Ow!
It's good! I'm trying to find the meat. This side? I'm having a hard time with this, man.
There's some meat.... Ow! That's hot. So the way I would describe pigeon is,
it tastes a lot like chicken, and it's kind of a small bird, so there's not a ton of
meat on it. But that might also be just because I'm inexperienced at finding it.
Maybe a combination. It's good that it's stuffed with rice. But overall, really tasty, and I like that
you can eat with your hands. Two thumbs up. I'm gonna turn the camera off because I'm already
embarrassed on how I'm eating this. But we'll be back tomorrow with more of Luxor. See you then.