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We were on the final street when I said we should check this nameless huge white building. We walked by the entrance, but there weren’t any signs-just another large black gate only open a sliver. The building is about a block long. We walked to the exit of the building and there was a tiny gold plaque that said “Agriculture Museum.” The guard gestured that we should go back to the first door and we did.
It was only 20PT to get inside, that’s about $0.05US. We got inside and immediately a guide attached himself to us. There was no one else inside the museum. He started lifting up the guard ropes and shooing us under them then asking for our camera and telling us how to pose. I think we saw the whole first floor in about 90 seconds. It was all wax figures dressed to the period they were representing. There was a harem-ish street, but I didn’t get a good look with this guy pushing us forward. My partner was getting really, really irritated because we didn’t actually get to see more than 3 seconds of any exhibit. If we slowed down, the guy yelled at us. At the end of the floor, he turned to my partner and asked for a tip. My partner gave him 5LE, which was more than generous in my opinion. And the guy was gesturing for more, more, more. We both said no and walked upstairs.
He followed us up and tried to do the follow me routine again. We just turned away from him and stared at the exhibits. And finally he left. The second floor was all skins of animals and lots of taxidermied animals-crocs, hippos, you name it. There were also models of farming methods and tools displayed. Almost all of the info was in Arabic though. We didn’t see the mummified bull-I think that’s what the “go” man was trying to push us through to see, but we didn’t feel like following him again.
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