hey guys
i recently got back from a month in Egypt travelling around the country. i thought u might like to see some photos i took with some Egyptian Vee Dubs. They love their VWs over there...
enjoy.

sorry the pics so big admin, i sent the wrong sized one.
in egypt u could see easily 100 white kombis in a row, and this i learnt is becoz the kombis are the taxis. each one would be decorated/ modified to make it look individual. one even replced the VW logo on the front with a big mercedes emblem!

some beetles outside my aunty's place in Cairo. i saw many bugs over there which were 70s style, but the were all wide 5 stud. im sure they werent all 67 models, maybe 4 stud didnt become popular over there...

msot beetles over there are so rust free cause of the dry conditioons as u could imagine, but then there are the exceptions!
this one was so rotten i had to take its photo, the fruit seller is laughing saying "do you want it?!?"
i love this photo...

this pic is taken from the back of my horse, yes, you can ride your horse in the streets of Cairo...:P

i threw this in for interest, this is my cousin and his car, an early 80s Fiat 128. the price of cars in egypt is very high, as this piece of crap (his words not mine) cost 14000 egyptian pounds, $7000AU!

:o:o:ommm... clean, zero rust busses far as the eye can see!

all i need to know now is that they're all running injected 2lts.

here i am having a really good time.
i hope you have enjoyed my photos and seen something interesting.
i will hav all my holiday pics on my website soon, the link is below...

thanks
sam VWFOOL:P

hehe wow cool...i laughed in shock when i saw the first photo, it looked like it was from the 70's... so many bay windows. hehe i like the niki parked in front of the fruit sellers beetle

Excellent photos!!! It's always great to see VW's in different cultures.

im glad u guys enjoyed the pics
:P

Wow love the pics. You are really giving me itchy feet to take off again

Those buses are amazing and so many of them:thumb

believe me, it has to be seen to be believed!
the way the kombi taxis works is, they dont stop when u want to get off or on, you just have to jump out when it slows down enough (preferably when they are taking a corner slow enough) or run along side and jump into it (as the door is always open). alot of the time though i saw other passengers co-operate by grabbing people by the arms to help pull them inside the moving bus.
you wouldnt believe the driving style of egyptians, no one uses the lanes, traffic lights r ignored, ppl merge ontop of you, no indicators, no headlights at night, you honk ur horn wen passing so ppl know ur there. its crazy to the westerner, but that is the beauty of Egypt, chaos that works!:o

thanks for the feedback

sam VWFOOL

lol

I've been to India a couple of times and a certain pitch of a motor horn will take me straight back there

Everything seems deadly quiet when you get home

Love the roof rack on the red beetle in horse on footpath photo :thumb

hey jen i saw a nice pic of ur bug with a white one, i think kruzinkombi showed me, very nice...:thumb