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[Aelric]

Which one? Quick!

[bucheon bum]

Mongolia, unless you have some burning desire to see the Pyramids (which are amazing I concede).

[ThingsComeAround]

Mongolia is cheap, the women are tall and beautiful- go there!

[Underwaterbob]

Had a friend nearly die in Mongolia from a random beating and have heard the pyramids are overflowing with hawkers.

[mm]

my first day in mongolia a child grabbed my leg and refused to let go until i gave him money. i didn't have any money. so i had to tickle him until he released my leg. i was scared of children for the rest of my trip. also, the diaper commercials have babies holding guns and they use ketchup as tomato sauce on pizza.

[oldfatfarang]

Egypt is always exciting. Been there twice, and was scared for life (as a kid) when a donkey cart taxi driver took my brother, mother and me way into some mean backstreets, and then tried to extort money from my mother (or he wouldn't take us back to the ship). A mob surrounded us kids and mom, and started shouting and trying to intimidate us. My mum wouldn't take it - and she started yelling until a British soldier came over and threatened to beat the driver with a cattle whip. Needless to say, we got our ride back to the ship - quick smart. Still the pyramids at Giza are mind boggling, and the national museum in Cairo is very special - especially the Tutan Kahmon exhibits. Luxor (the Valley of the Kings) is also worth a visit - but don't travel there on fake student cards like my girfriend and I did, that wasn't smart.

Mongolia, always wanted to go to Mongolia. Huge Taimen (cousin of trout) grow up to six feet long. Some fantastic fishing - in a country that time forgot. But fishing in Mongolia has got astronomically expensive (USA toursits pushing up prices) and govt. and guiding fees - so I guess Mongolia will have to wait.

Good luck. They're both great places.

[DaeguKid]

[winterfall]

Egypt's fun. There's two major hurdles, first you'll definitely need to learn Arabic. If you head out to the rural areas, the over 50 crowd won't be literate much less speak English. Second, the diet is more culturally vegetarian, they don't eat as much meat. Some cheese, lots of hommus but not much meat. You can find lamb easily, chicken's a bit harder and I never was able to find any beef there. If you can get over those two issues, the cost of living is LOW, the state subsidizes a lot.

[ticktocktocktick]

I haven't been to Mongolia, but I hated Egypt. If you go anywhere remotely of interest, there's nothing but touts who won't leave you alone. We took a walk through a market one evening, and got 3 eff yous from stallholders for not patronising their stalls. I found service and attitudes to be poor all over the place. My uncle went a few weeks later, and experienced the same problems. He summed it up perfectly - The problem with Egypt is it's full of Egyptians.

[ticktocktocktick]

I must add though, I went with my Korean lady, and when the service people and salesmen switched to Arabic to talk about you/prices, it was hilarious to take revenge by speaking Korean to each other!

[bucheon bum]

[BoholDiver]

3000 men? Isn't that like 90% of their population?

[AsiaESLbound]

[Louis VI]

Siberia or Ethiopia?

Waaaaaay more interesting!

[runthegauntlet]

Egypt. Loads to do from beaches to mountain climbs to ancient wonders; it has it all.

Even better? Petra in Jordan.