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Egyptian barefoot adventures. Part 1.

Egyptian barefoot adventures. Part 1. Day 1 We arrived to Egypt in the afternoon. We were looking forward to spending time under the worm sun, so we took off our shoes already in the Moscow airport. It was such a relaxing and wonderful feeling, to get rid of the narrow winter shoes! We started taking photos at once. Unfortunately, they did not let us take much photos there. Inside the plane it was forbidden, too, but we managed to take some pictures anyway. We couldnt help taking a close-up of our feet on the window glass, because there was such an interesting view! Later we noticed that a man behind us cleaned the window, grumbling: Oh, those girls, they put their dirty feet on the clean glass, and now I cant see anything! Egypt met us with hot air, bright sun and wonderful sea! Right after we went through the passport control, we started taking photos again. All the Egyptians were looking at us with curiosity but said nothing. We walked around the hotel a bit, and then went to bed. Day 2 Of course, we went to the restaurant barefoot and made many photos there. The waiter asked us not to come like this again, because there might be broken glass and we could hurt ourselves. We smiled and went on with our photos. There were so many different tasty things!!! That day we decided to go to the Old Market. When we saw some handmade bracelets, we decided to try them on. All the sellers started to shout: Come here, try this! and put the bracelets on our hands. But we said: No, we dont need it for that. We want bracelets for out feet! They were surprised so much, that soon there was a small crowd of Arabs, watching us wearing those bracelets on out feet. In the evening we went to a local place to smoke Shisha, a national Egyptian pipe. It was a truly romantic Arabian evening. Lying on low sofas, listening to national Egyptian music, drinking hot Karkade tea, looking at the stars and smoking Shisha, we really felt relaxed and happy. Day 3 In the afternoon we went to Naama Bay, a modern quarter of Sharm El Sheikh. Everybody, really everybody was looking at us, pointed fingers at out feet and asked in a broken English or Russian: Why This? We laughed and gave various replies, like: Well, we had to sell our last shoes to get money for thie trip, or We are pilgrims, so we have to walk like this, or We just like it this way! After 10th question like this it got really funny, we already make jokes whether we would be asked about it again and where. Needless to say, that first of all in the morning we went to the beach. We swam and sunbathed. The water was perfect, warm and clean, with a lot of fish of all kinds. It was wonderful to feel hot sand between our toes. Julia went into the water and hurt herself at once with corals We walked and surprised people everywhere: in an onyx shop, in a textile shop, in a supermarketSome Egyptians asked us whether we could make a photo with them. A person selling belly dance dresses was so stunned that asked us to try some of the dresses on. We gladly did it, and were amazed how beautiful they were! When we tried to make pictures near a beautiful fish plate at a fish restaurant, two waiters jumped to us and started posing together with us, holding giant lobsters and crabs in their hands. Then they gave us to hold them, too. An interesting thing: in the trade center there were hot floors! It was in the evening, so we could not understand whether the tiles have heating or they got warm in the sun during the day. But it was interesting for us to discover.