A salient difference between cybertravel and forms of travel previously discussed is the disembodied nature of the cybertraveller.

I had a clear reason to disadvise the purchase of it.

At this moment, the Sun, sympathizing with these thoughts of love, or of the future, has cast on the tawny sides of this rock, an ardent light; some mountain flowers called attention, the calm and the silence enlarged this anfractuosity, sombre in reality, colored by the dreamer; then it was beautiful with its scant vegetation, its warm chamomillas, its hair of Venus with the velvet leaves; a festival prolonged, magnificent decorations, happy exaltation of human forces!'

If you get a chance, drop me a line when you arrive in Cairo.