Snaring the scammers - Icon - Technology - smh.com.au: "Snaring the scammers
By Nicole Manktelow
May 7, 2005
One auction customer who'd had enough set out to catch a crook.
Psst! Buddy, have I got a deal for you!' Such was the offer that triggered a personal crusade to find an online auction fraudster."
Aswan to Luxor via Fallouccah
Rushed for the first part but wonderfully relaxing after. The 3:30am start to drive 300Km to Abu Simbel was a pain. Wonderful temple, incredible feat of engineering to move it up the hill away from the waters of the Aswan dam an' all, but was it worth the time and heat and fatigue? Not really. Still, I suppose I can now say that I've done it and seen it. The two day ride down the Nile in a felloucca was just magical. I was so tired after the train ride and the early start the day before that I was exhausted so time spent just lying about and watching the scenery and chatting with some very interesting fellow travellers, or learning from our host, Captain Mohammed, and his regular visits with mates along the way. An interesting side trip was a visit to the once-a-week camel markets in Darow - the largest in Egypt - where camels are brought in from Sudan 1500Km over 45 days for sale to traders, farmers, racers and butchers. (A young eating camel goes for LE4000, a racing c...
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