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The Crowded Mumbai
In my imagination, India is a very beautiful country like in Bollywood films. Big amazing mansions and beautiful girls are always the icon of India in the movies. But once I get out of Mumbai airport, what I imagine it was wrong. In front of the airport, taxi parking scattered irregularly, in a fleet of sedans wearing the old-eighties as possible. The atmosphere is too chaotic and squalid impressed, many people place so that the smell of urine stinging in some corners at the airport.
After a long of waiting and negotiations finally I get a taxi that drove me to the hotel. The traffic in Mumbai is chaotic and very out of order. Overlap each other, cutting each other, pushing. Taxi driver who drove me speeding through the traffic jams in the middle of the night. Hotels are already booked was located in the dense environment near the central market in Mumbai city.
Mumbai’s not really my main goal to India. It was just a transit for about ten hours before continuing the trip to Goa. That’s why I did not have time to explore this city. Because there is only a little time, I try to walk around the hotel in Mumbai. Infrastructure here is really out of order. Electric cables are chaotic, crowded homes are disordered, gaping holes visible on the edge of the highway. Public transport, old buses passing, people crossing at any place, the stores are not arranged neatly.
Cairo and Chapped Lips
From the unfriendly weather conditions, the consequential health and body condition of people living in it. For example it was me, when I first set foot in the country this pyramid, as it coincides with being the peak of winter, when it is around 10 to 15 degrees Celsius. Just a few hours to live in apartment houses, there is a drastic change that I feel in my body. My skin felt instantly wrinkled directly and chapped lips. Especially at night arrived, although the skin was closed with a leather jacket and had shut the body with a very thick blanket, still very sharp chill to the bone.
Symptoms cracked lips like this was not only experienced by the new kid on the new Cairo adapt to the harsh weather. But it is also happening to the people of Egypt who are used to weather like that since they were born, again, Luna became the goddess of rescuers who saved them from their lips because of illness in silence speak.
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Corpse City Cairo
Death is less interesting topics to be discussed even though all living things in this world is going to feel it, but I am intrigued to raise this issue if the roots of its culture is Egypt, the country that made me admire him because his name mentioned in many religious scriptures which I have adopted.
All must know, Egypt is a country that passes through so many periods in every inch of his history, so that inevitably the Egyptian culture can be said to be a culture of “cocktail” or mixed culture of all civilizations, though of course there are civilizations that are now dominated by the civilizations Islam. This is also affecting how people look in the case of the death of Egypt.
Places that interest me about death are the two cities, first in Dua’ia (Du’aiqoh) and the second in Tubromli, an area that includes very close to the apartment which I dwell. The first time I had in mind when looking at the exact place of the dead vast cemetery is in two towns in Cairo is no feeling haunted and spooky at all. Almost every day when lectures at Al-Azhar is on, I always pass through his city of the dead in Du’aiah. You need to know, Dua’iah is one area in the cemetery since Islam was introduced to Egypt. Tomb inhabited by people at the time of Salahuddin Al-Ayyubid the conqueror of Jerusalem, as well as the human grave from the Fatimid dynasty which had thousands of years old. Read the rest of this entry »
Parking Road in Cairo
There is one problem that makes the narrow streets of Cairo began to feel that way over the function that should be a place of passing cars into the parking lot. This phenomenon is something that has spread in Cairo and surrounding towns. Official government offices in Egypt, the company also rarely a special parking place for their employees. Even in areas that she said elites such as in Down Town who became the heart of Cairo became the worst hit areas of his body shoulder of the road as a parking lot.
The safest day to avoid heavy traffic on the area of vehicles on the roads is used as a parking lot Friday morning, because, on this day not many cars that operate as a national holiday Egypt. There are also special days that must be very secure that after Maghrib in Ramadan, because at the hour when it was rarely out of the house of Egypt’s people to improve and prepare iftar meals tarawih prayers, it seems from my experience through the streets in Egypt, only two this time most survived. Read the rest of this entry »
Komombo: Nile Guard
This afternoon the weather can reach 39 degrees Cairo. There is a temple that became one of the guards nil, at least be a little cool head in very hot temperatures. This temple is named Komombo.
Komombo is a shrine or temple first built by Tuhmosis III, six of the pharaohs to the eighteenth dynasty. For twenty-two years earlier, Thutmosis lead as regent from one region dominated by her stepmother; Hatshepshut. Komombo today besides the name of a temple, is also the name of the area where the temple stood Komombo. This area lies approximately 29 kilometers from the city of Aswan, southern Egypt very close to the Sudanese state.
Komombo Yunai-Roman era is the settlement of the Greeks who became the agricultural area. One part of the Aswan region, Komombo built in the 2nd century BC. Construction of the temple where one aims to honor the god named Sobek, god of the human body and the head of a crocodile. Sobek often associated with evil gods.
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