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One visitor's dissapointment at the discrepancy between the travel brochure hype and the actual experience of some of the lesser visited sites of Egypt, like Bubastis and Tanis: "What actually occured was a string of bitter disappointments. We were shown a string of ruins with so little intact that it was near impossible to imagine any past glory.
'It had better get better than this,' said one.
The lone statue of feline goddess Bast with the head of a cat and the body of a woman, stood amid nondescript ancient stone remains.
The second site, vaster than the first, was a little more interesting. Cartouches, tombs, inscriptions and some Pharaonic busts were found in a “rawer” state than usual. It was as if we had landed in a wild garden of 'ancientness' where all the really good stuff had already been picked."
One visitor's dissapointment at the discrepancy between the travel brochure hype and the actual experience of some of the lesser visited sites of Egypt, like Bubastis and Tanis: "What actually occured was a string of bitter disappointments. We were shown a string of ruins with so little intact that it was near impossible to imagine any past glory.
'It had better get better than this,' said one.
The lone statue of feline goddess Bast with the head of a cat and the body of a woman, stood amid nondescript ancient stone remains.
The second site, vaster than the first, was a little more interesting. Cartouches, tombs, inscriptions and some Pharaonic busts were found in a “rawer” state than usual. It was as if we had landed in a wild garden of 'ancientness' where all the really good stuff had already been picked."
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