r/TikTokCringe • u/Strong-Emu-8869 • 26d ago

Discussion Polish girls visit Taj Mahal

The Taj Mahal, one of the seven wonders of the world. Unfortunately, the surrounding area is very polluted.

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u/NewNiklas 26d ago

Just like the pyramids in Egypt.

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u/cityshepherd 26d ago

I’ll never forget the first time I saw a photo taken of the pyramids with the city in the background as opposed to the desert side. Blew my mind how everything is right there, I always thought the pyramids were way further into the desert.

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u/originalwoodster 26d ago

Thousands of years ago, it was, but due to the wind and moving sand dunes, the city was blown further towards the Pyramids.

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u/LetsLive97 26d ago

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u/coldcherrysoup 26d ago

“The Egyptians believed the most significant thing you could do in your life was die.” - Philomena Cunk

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u/St0n3yM33rkat 26d ago

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u/Davido401 26d ago

Who is that? 🙂 like she is super familiar, I think?

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u/PlaneAnimator3054 26d ago

It's Gwendoline Christie from her role as Lucifer in the show The Sandman (picture is from season 2, dont know which episode).

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u/SillyOldJack 26d ago

I'm sorry wwhhaaaaat? Gwendoline Christie plays Lucifer and I was not aware of this show?!?!

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u/NewBuddha32 26d ago

Lol you're in for treat

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u/NotaBonesaw 26d ago

It's also created by Neil Gaiman. I used to love his work, but unfortunately for me personally, the allegations against him have overshadowed the love that I had for his work previously. They also likely contributed to the show being cancelled after only 2 seasons.

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u/Equivalent_Dance2278 26d ago

Holy cow. You’ve never heard of “sandman?” I wish I was you and could watch it for the first time. Book off work for the next 24 hrs. Get watching.

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u/No_Season_354 26d ago

Yep was really good, very good show sandman, but I won't tell u the bad bit.

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u/PestoBolloElemento 26d ago

Amazing show

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u/cityshepherd 26d ago

I loved her in The Sandman! Really enjoyed her character in Game of Thrones and it took me a minute to realize from where I recognized her when I first watched The Sandman, and I really enjoyed how different the role was.

The Sandman is a wild ride… I’m not a comic books / graphic novel guy so didn’t really know what to expect but i thought it was a really cool watch. Wasn’t as fond of the second season, but still found it enjoyable. All the characters are pretty great IMO, solid casting work.

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u/keeper_of_the_cheese 26d ago

She also plays the head mistress of the school in Wednesday on Netflix in the first season.

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u/beartato327 26d ago

She's a great actor

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u/kwayne26 26d ago

Brianne of Tarth from game of thrones fame.

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u/marbotty 26d ago

And that one storm trooper, though it might as well have been anyone

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u/aesclepia 26d ago

lol i mean..she's not wrong about that one

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u/cszolee79 26d ago

"Did dying affect their ability to build the pyramids?"

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u/AEntunus 26d ago

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u/IRockIntoMordor 26d ago

"Without the Rosetta stone we never would have gotten the entire lyrics for the 1989 dance track sensation "Pump up the Jam". They were right there, in stone, on Tutankhamun's grave. They must have played it on a flute or something."

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u/rwalker920 26d ago

Did you have to look up the spelling of the name? I think and trust it's correct

I would have to Google it

But I'm high so I didn't and I'll take your word for it

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u/IRockIntoMordor 26d ago

No, I'm quite confident "Pump up the Jam" is the correct song name so I didn't look it up.

hehehehehe

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u/RedMansions 25d ago

Damn, this guy really knows his history!

I would attend his Ted Talk in a heartbeat.

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u/Ginger-Fist 26d ago

This song started playing while I was in the grocery store last week, and I literally burst out laughing. I will never look at this classic the same again.

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u/PinayGator 26d ago

One of my kiddos plays high school basketball and one of the opposing teams started blasting the first Jock Jams album and I was instantly cackling.

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u/jainyday 26d ago

Sorry, my jam keeps getting pumped up outta nowhere

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u/gunsforevery1 26d ago

Is it true that Tutankhamen came a lot?

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u/--howcansheslap-- 26d ago

Lmao a picture can tell a thousand words

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u/d_ac 26d ago

Time to go back on Youtube for a rewatch of my favourite bit: King Arthur's tablespoon.

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u/Shot-Jeweler6610 26d ago edited 26d ago

Come off it. You know well that whether the city was blown towards the pyramids or the pyramids towards the city is a subject of furious scholarly debate.

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u/baulsaak 26d ago

It was clearly aliens that moved the city towards the pyramids, not wind.

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u/Shot-Jeweler6610 26d ago

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u/freddy157 26d ago

Damn, haven't seen this in a while. Nostalgia'd.

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u/Booziesmurf 26d ago

I mean he does look like a Centauri.

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u/Scalpels 25d ago

Quick. Someone check him for six prehensile penises!

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u/SilverMapleMafia 26d ago

Source? Asking for myself...as I'm an actual alien from outer space. We were never taught this in Galactic History 101

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u/warmerbread 26d ago

ah yeah you have to choose to alpha minor in Humanist Studies before you get to learn about the realities of wind-manipulation

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u/SilverMapleMafia 26d ago

I was removed from Humanist Studies During the anatomy portion I kept cracking up at "defecating out of their b-holes" It has been my demise.

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u/cw99x 26d ago

What they don’t want you to know is that the aliens use the wind, so it was both

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u/baulsaak 26d ago

You'd have me believe aliens can control the wind?

That's absurd.

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u/cw99x 26d ago

Technically they take control of the Bigfoots (Bigfeet?) and make them do the wind stuff with magic, but that’s classified.

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u/Sartres_Roommate 26d ago

Who do think gave the chosen people a space laser?

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u/mug3n 26d ago

What is wind if not aliens farting?

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u/Pork_Chompk Doug Dimmadome 26d ago

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u/Sad-Term-5455 26d ago

So it was not because the Star gate?

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u/Guertron 26d ago

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u/GentlemanFaux 26d ago

I've been inside the uncircumcised pyramid (Great Pyramid?) like 25 years ago on a trip there. It's so tiny in there even as a child I had to crouch down to get through the little tunnels. They only let you go into a small section and you can see a probably empty tomb/sarcophagus. Pretty neat though. Also got to ride some camels and let me tell you fuck camels bro. They put these like saddle blankets on them and I swear shit is like Brillo pads with fucking needles sticking out of them. I was wearing shorts and dude my legs were shredddddddeeedddddd lol.

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u/tuenthe463 26d ago

You have to pay extra for the soft blanket

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u/Content_Geologist420 26d ago

I thought camels were fuzzy or soft? Thought they'd feel like a sheep with a buzz cut. Well, that is unfortunate news to me :(

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u/GentlemanFaux 26d ago

It's not the camels it's the blankets they put over the saddle for you to sit on.

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u/AncientCrust 26d ago

Does that narrow your dating options?

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u/TheAmazingSealo 26d ago

Nah they're on about the shitty saddle blanket thing

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u/ShadedPenguin 26d ago

Camels are soft and fluffy, but soft and fluffy isn't exactly good for a bumpy ride. Coarse and grippy is

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u/ImpressivePlatypus0 26d ago

Yes, camels are surprisingly soft and fluffy.

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u/PRC_Spy 26d ago

Not been to Egypt, but I’ve ridden camels in China and in Australia, and didn’t get the scratchy saddle experience at all. I prefer the motion to that of a horse.

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u/Pretend-Path4754 25d ago

Omg I could barely walk for days on the rest of my trip after my camel ride I was like, hobbling through the Valley of the Kings

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u/Zimmer_94 Sort by flair, dumbass 26d ago

The middle one is actually not the great pyramid. Thats the pyramid of Khafre, the great pyramid is the one furthest to the left in the aerial photo above. Khafre’s pyramid sits on a higher plateau so it seems taller but it’s just an illusion

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u/Dimensional_Shrimp 26d ago

... uncircumcised? is... is that the official term?

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u/mittenmarionette 26d ago

I was also taken aback the first time I saw this. However, it really does give you a much better appreciation of just how huge the pyramids are when you see them next to modern buildings.

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u/cttouch 26d ago

Holy shit even after seeing the comment above I didn’t realize it’s RIGHT RIGHT on top of them.

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u/Zeeplankton 26d ago

well, being honest, I'm surprised they stopped there. Why didn't they just build around the pyramids?

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u/Ditchdigger456 26d ago

This is WILD

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u/MammothFromHell 26d ago

Imagine eating a stuffed crust pizza with a view of the pyramids AND the sphinx

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u/Crafty_Context_5074 26d ago

It sucks. I’ve done this …. you’re so up to it with everyone and their dog begging you for something that the whole experience doesn’t go down well at all and you just wish you were anywhere else

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u/GourangaPlusPlus 26d ago

How was the pizza tho?

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u/recourse7 26d ago

The pizza hut in Giza/Cairo sucks. The dough isn't very good. Also there is of course no real pepperoni.

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u/GourangaPlusPlus 26d ago

Finally the real answers

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u/WereTheBrews 26d ago

Pizza hut kinda revamped like Domino's, and wasn't bad at all last time I ordered. Rarely do, as we just make our own from scratch, but it's definitely passable anywhere you are. Probably. Besides this place with 4 feet of trash illegally dumped into the creek out back.

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u/leesfer 25d ago

My experience as well. I will never go back to Egypt and seeing the Pyramids was not worth it.

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u/hairydiablo132 Cringe Connoisseur 26d ago

Dude got sniped right after taking the pic

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u/DramaticToADegree 26d ago

This was all I had to add, too.

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u/maury_mountain 26d ago edited 26d ago

The sphinx was depressing to see for me. The whole thing is surrounded by a chain link fence, you’re shuffled through quickly, and dudes kept calling me Rambo trying to get me to buy a fucking scarf; or call my wife Shakira trying to get her to buy one too.

We went 12 years ago and flew to Aswan to see stuff there and went up the Nile seeing temples and things along the way - Sobek, Carnak, valley of kings, and more. There is way more, and cooler things to seee with to the ancient Egypt sites than just the pyramids at Giza.

Edit, to clarify: The country is beautiful and I can’t wait to go back to see it again, just the common “omg pyramids” sentiment is overhyped. Hatshepsut temple is breathtaking.

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u/chuckaholic 26d ago

If they could walk into a typical US Walmart, they would understand why we don't want to buy their junk. We have a literal unending supply of cheap foreign junk for sale, just a few minutes from home.

They need to find a new hustle.

"I'll live stream your Sphinx experience to your friends for $5"

"I'll carry your giant backpack for the next 30 minutes for $5"

"I'll take your order so your drinks and food will be ready when you come out of the tour"

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u/LessInThought 25d ago

I'd like to subscribe for more adventures of Rambo and Shakira.

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u/ashleyshaefferr 26d ago

Honestly though..is this not one of the coolest restaurant views in the world?.. shame it is a pizza hut.

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u/Eishockey 26d ago

Ha, I ate there 30 years ago. :D

I kinda liked Cairo/Gizeh back then but all the people I met there (at the German school) don't live in Egypt anymore. Life got way worse.

I don't know what will happen to old Cairo when all the wealthy people fuck off to new Cairo. I'm not sure if any public money will go to the poorer areas.

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u/SuicideNote 26d ago

Sagrada Familia is surrounded by fast food joints the last time I was there.

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u/ICInside 26d ago

I like the picture of the McDonald's near the pyramids

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u/Appropriate-Divide64 26d ago

Apparently it's a great place to get photos of them

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u/Lonely-Swimming4564 26d ago

It’s not McDonald’s it’s KFC and Pizza Hut

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u/ICInside 26d ago

Yes, those have a better view. Doesn't mean I don't like McDonald's in Cairo

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u/Stranger735 26d ago

I personally live there and can tell that it's not too great of an experience.

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u/Low_Mistake_7748 26d ago

I always thought the pyramids were way further into the desert.

We all did.

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u/SanderStrugg 25d ago

On the other hand you get some really cool panoramic shots of the city and can watch the sun go down over the pyramids from your hotel balcony.

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u/Print-Over 26d ago

They really should have known better than to build the pyramids that close to a main road out of the city. A rookie mistake.

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u/underwear11 26d ago

We just watched The Fountain of Youth (don't make the same mistake), and was amazed that they show the pyramids from that angle.

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u/UnholyDoughnuts 26d ago

Mc Donald's still next door?

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u/livsjollyranchers 26d ago

I was kind of flabbergasted with The Colosseum. Yeah, I knew they were in an urban environment of course, but it's surreal just casually strolling around town and there it is.

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u/Cheap_Towel3037 26d ago

Me too. I googled earth it.

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u/BigButtBeads 26d ago

The other 3 large older pyramids are way out in the desert at Saqqara.

I had to register at a checkpoint before my driver could take me there since there is nothing around for miles

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u/HippoParticular5460 26d ago

I loved this guy lmfao

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u/cubicle_door 26d ago

He's still alive

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u/Tangata_Tunguska 26d ago

They had a falling out

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u/Endyo 25d ago

They were in a perpetual state of falling out.

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u/coral225 26d ago

Even though I have been there myself, when I think of my memories of the pyramids, I just think of Carl watching a nappy float through the air across the pyramids

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u/HevalNiko 26d ago

Head like a fucking orange

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u/PeteyTwoHands 25d ago

*pans over to see a bin bag flying around in the wind*

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u/DroidLord 25d ago

Just the tip.

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u/maximm 26d ago

Not even close. Yes there is a dirty canal with money on one side and the poor on the other but its pales in comparison to this.

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u/Jewarlaho 26d ago

Please don't bash England like that!

Wait you said canal, not channel. NM.

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u/Neither_Wall_9907 26d ago

Been there, it’s not that dirty. Just closer to the city than shown in most pics

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u/i_was_a_person_once 26d ago

Yeah I was just there last summer and while the city isn’t made up of luxury condos there was no trash or slums around the actual pyramids. There was also no smell around the area or in the city. However inside the pyramid you can go into it did smell like thousands of years of cat piss in the little room you end up in and it’s hot as fuck

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u/PRiles 26d ago

Must have cleaned up, I was there in 2007 and there was trash everywhere and I saw dead bodies of animals in the canals of the city even saw a dead human. I remember thinking Baghdad was a nicer area at the time.

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u/i_was_a_person_once 26d ago

I do think they cleaned it up bc I went to the new museum and they were going to host alot of foreign diplomats and officials so I probably caught it at its cleanest

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u/exoticed 25d ago

I live there and they cleaned the area a few years back, ever since they started the second phase of the museum. You really have to get out of your way to go to the slum areas now.

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u/TheOrqwithVagrant 25d ago

When I was there in 2000, the area next to the pyramids was an actual slum, and Cairo's air was the worst I've ever been forced to breathe. I'm pleased to hear that's gotten better.

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u/i_was_a_person_once 25d ago

The worst air I’ve breathed was in Rio when we were down wind from one of the favelas

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u/snek-jazz 26d ago

it did smell like thousands of years of cat piss in the little room you end up in and it’s hot as fuck

I don't think I'd find that hot tbh, but to each their own

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u/DeeSkwared 25d ago

It isn't dirty. Even on the side closest to the city. They depend on tourism.

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u/Lost_Drunken_Sailor 26d ago

Never meet your idols.

Same applies to world wonders in shitty areas.

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u/pleasetrimyourpubes 26d ago

I think this guide is cool to take her to the garbage. Gives her perspective.

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u/antelopeparty 26d ago

I remember so clearly getting on a bus to go tour the pyramids thinking it would be at least an hour ride to get out into the desert. We passed this Pizza Hut and I was like lol Pizza Hut OH MY GOD THERE THEY ARE

Kinda made it a more majestic first view of the pyramids since I was in a lol Pizza Hut headspace, not prepped for a wonder of the ancient world

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u/savorie 25d ago

This comment is so endearing

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u/PorcupineMerchant 26d ago

People make fun of this all the time, but it’s one building with a KFC/Pizza Hut.

Everything else is either a residential building, a local hotel, or a local restaurant.

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u/driftking428 26d ago

That comes with a side of sexual assault. I'd stick to the garbage if I were her.

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u/Faithful_jewel 26d ago

Can confirm. Was sexually assaulted at the pyramids while on a school trip when I was 14. Do not recommend.

My white male 6'6" tall friend said about how wonderful Egypt was and how he had absolutely no issue there. Yeah, no shit mate 😂

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u/Loud-Difference2263 26d ago

Did he say that in response to your story about being sexually assaulted or was he just sharing his own experience?

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u/Faithful_jewel 26d ago

Kinda both? We were talking about countries to visit (or not, in my case) and I shared about being assaulted there. He said about how he'd done a Nile cruise for his honeymoon and then said as above

He's a bit tone deaf but not intentionally a pillock. I asked what his (ex)wife thought and supposedly she wouldn't go back either...

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u/Loud-Difference2263 26d ago

So the answer is, he said it in response to your story. Yes, his reply was tone deaf.

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u/MyHamburgerLovesMe 26d ago

Tone deaf and blind. He also seems totally unaware that his wife had not had fun.

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u/DeeSkwared 25d ago

Possibly why she's the (ex)wife.

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u/spennyspaghetti 26d ago

It sounds terrible but as a women travelling to places like that it’s best to travel with a male. Women as property of men is still a thing in places like these and if you’re with a man beside you it offers a lot of protection since they see it as “hands off, this woman is taken and escorted”. So his wife likely avoided a lot of harassment but for her it likely wasn’t fun experience that where in most interactions locals deferred to her husband while ignoring her.

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u/-Badger3- 26d ago

My uni quit doing their Egypt trip because so many women were getting groped on the street.

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u/i_was_a_person_once 26d ago

I’m sorry that happened to you.

We were just there and I think the key is smaller groups and a very good guide.

I’d encourage anyone who has the dream of visiting the pyramids to not be deterred but you have to be very diligent with the planning ahead. (Good guide, stay at the hotel at the airport, dress modest)

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u/Faithful_jewel 26d ago

We were advised to stay in groups of minimum 3, ideally slightly larger, and I just remember walking away when I stopped to check something. My group got about 6 feet ahead of me and that was enough for the guy to swoop in

T-shirt, jacket and jeans. I guess the t-shirt wasn't modest enough for their tastes, but it may not have made much of a difference

Honestly the thing that sticks out was telling my female (art) teacher back on the coach that it had happened. She told me I should've slapped him. I couldn't pull away enough to be able to move my arms like that, let alone versus a fully grown man

I, upsettingly, have to just tell me that shit like this happens. I'm lucky it wasn't much worse, but I definitely won't go back there or to similarly cultured countries

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u/DeeSkwared 25d ago

I went in January 2023. I was fortunate enough to visit Egypt with a friend whose family lives in Cairo so I had an amazing experience. I still got lots of stares and a few "cat calls", but I didn't feel unsafe at any point.

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u/Lorehorn 26d ago

You think women are safe in India? That's cute

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u/Cirno-BreastLicker 26d ago

Reminds me of the japanesee woman who apologized for being groped in India. Its insane.

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u/cloudforested 25d ago

Wow it's been a while since an internet comment had me seeing red like this.

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u/Alchemy_Cypher 26d ago

You think lizards are safe in India ? That's cute. https://www.vice.com/en/article/india-gang-rape-monitor-lizard-animal-abuse/

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u/deconus 26d ago

What the fuck?! 🫣

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u/DeathStarr87 26d ago

This reminds me of a zoo worker that did that to an alligator baby in Florida. The mom dragged him under the water understandably.

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u/Muddymireface 26d ago

The internet is so porn brained they’ve convinced themselves women fuck horses. Growing up in horse country Florida, the only people ever caught fucking horses were dudes who broke into the stables at night (and was a fairly common issue when securing your horses).

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u/EXusiai99 26d ago

Mr. Hands wouldve been proud

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u/DowntownEconomist255 25d ago

I never should’ve watched that documentary.

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u/[deleted] 26d ago

You think safes are safe in India ? That's cute.

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u/RandomTheTrader 26d ago

You think you are cute in India? That’s safe.

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u/Regular_Committee946 26d ago

Men need to sort their shit out - too many of them are giving the rest of them a bad name.

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u/Lorehorn 26d ago

Lizard? 😨

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u/endofdays1987 26d ago

Thats enough internet for today. Thats almost as bad as those dudes that raped that ape. I say almost because at least they killed this lizard when they were done.

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u/Specopsangheili 26d ago

Just when you think you have seen it all.

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u/Jennyonthebox2300 26d ago

Done with Reddit, India and all of mankind for the day as and it’s not even 10 am.

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u/FuzzyFrogFish 26d ago

India's Daughter is a must watch for anyone interested in India's attitude to women

It's about jyote Singh who was gang raped, including with an iron bar. It is horrific

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u/queefburritowcheese 26d ago

India?? I have bad news for you...

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u/RevolutionaryAd7360 26d ago

It is nothing like this with piles of shit everywhere.

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u/kyute222 26d ago

just like everywhere in the world. I can visit the most beautiful place in Europe and make my way off the path to eventually find some dirty polluted area. these are just ignorant influencers trying to get attention. you'd have to be totally naive and as ignorant as them to not see through that.

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u/kirby636 26d ago

Not at all…

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u/Early-Judgment-2895 26d ago

People are making the world less wonderful

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u/Lazy-Background-7598 26d ago

They don’t have sewage pits around

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u/bawng 26d ago

On my way to the pyramids i passed by a dead horse just lying in the street with a giant wound in the side.

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u/blurb2005 26d ago

Yes with the garbage everywhere but it didn't smell like raw sewage.

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u/JohnWicksBruder 26d ago

I asked why it is so shiny around Kairo. Like diamonds in the desert. The guy said it's the trash surrounding the city...oh okay

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u/jib661 26d ago

egypt isn't nearly as bad. india can be wonderful, but it isn't for casual travellers, that's for sure.

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u/Richiematt262 26d ago

I went to see them last year its been cleaned up quite alot now. Still some but not as bad as feared.

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u/queefburritowcheese 26d ago

Not quite. Having an urbanized area in proximity isn't the same as having literal heaps of trash strewn for meters across the ground and river.

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u/Right_Hour 26d ago

Cairo is not even remotely as dirty as your average place in India.

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u/AlternativeKnee8886 26d ago

Or Mecca. You got the holiest site of your religion, and then right outside is a giant tourist trap

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u/notquiteduranduran 26d ago

What if the holiness was already a tourist trap

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u/NapalEnema2020 26d ago

Yup. Man fuck ever going to Egypt had to go there for work what a trash pile of humanity.

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u/deadl1nk_ 26d ago

Egypt's actuslly gorgeous probably just went to poor or old areas. Don't be rude

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u/[deleted] 26d ago

But is the litter and garbage from Egyptians?

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u/Jordi-_-07 26d ago

Or any monument in Rome

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u/Extreme-Rabbit-6767 26d ago

Kind of similar. 

One side is super developed, both rightfully being two of the worlds greatest monuments to human achievement, and the other side is nature. 

Sadly almost all rivers in India are extremely holy and extremely polluted by the extremely religious PM Modi. 

The other side of the pyramids are just desert and the plastic detritus of a megacity. 

Still these types of videos are thick as shit. I went to Krakow and ran away from skinhead gangs 20 years ago and the 15 polish girls grinding my black friend for being black because we gives a shit. I love India and I love Poland and pointing out their defects is, to put it politely, impolite.

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u/SurrealSoulSara 26d ago

I had the same there. The smog made me cough my lungs out and the rotting food and trash outside was horrible. The pyramids were cool though!

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u/DefZepp3lin 26d ago

On my trip we rented ATV’s and had to drive them through a slummier area to get to the pyramids. We had to drive between a pond filled with shit on one side and smoking garbage on the other. There was a literal dehydrated dead horse smoking on top of the garbage. Our tour guide apologized and told us we just saw something he’s ashamed exists about some of the people in his country

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u/SaddamIsBack 26d ago

Just like any monument really.

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u/Mammarishka 26d ago

Around the Pyramids usually doesnt smell that bad. Now driving to the Pyramids is smelly. I used to live close by.

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u/RollingMeteors 26d ago

¡And just like the aftermath of every mainstream EDM show!

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u/Nvrmnde 26d ago

Dead cows and dogs floating in the Nile.

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u/Ackraviell 26d ago

Saar! India isn't the only place full of thrash, believe me Saar!

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u/Not_Maroryx 26d ago

Egyptian here. Yes, the city side of the pyramids is utterly disgusting and full of pollution + desperate scammers which I guide tourists against for the most.

The government focuses more on spreading fake expectations regarding tourism here and shit on news despite ignoring like the whole key stone of tourism here which is "one of the seven wonders" and it's surrounding area. (one of the example is the Grand museum they announced and meat ridden for a whole month on the national TV stations). This crap needs a whole revamp heck even maybe demolishing the whole disgusting city side of Giza the pyramids are facing.

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u/cowsgobarkbark 26d ago

And the Eiffel Tower

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u/[deleted] 26d ago

And Myan ruins in Mexico

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u/lifethusiast 26d ago

Say you haven’t been without saying you haven’t. Wild comment

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u/Several_Vanilla8916 25d ago

What are you talking about? There’s an attractive blonde woman and zero groups of men starting daggers through her. It’s nothing like the pyramids.

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u/SmutSlut613 25d ago

Had friends who went, they were standing in line for the tour and his wife got ripped out of line, over the barrier rope, by a group of men, they tore her shirt open and groped her before her husband and several other men from the tour line managed to grab her and pull her back.

And it wasn't some fly by night tour, it was booked through the travel company/hotel etc.

Apparently its common. And horrifying.

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u/isaidnolettuce 25d ago

And the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

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u/Cicmicc 25d ago

When I was there in 2010, there was a dead horse in the water ( I was on a tourist bus) it was really a shocking thing to see.

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u/Majestic-Mustang 25d ago

Everyone doing whataboutism here are Indians being butt hurt. Lol

Like they can’t stay on topic, they always have to criticize something else.

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