Miscellaneous: You can easily spend one, two ore even more hours inside the site! You have to know that except for the ruins there is nothing else inside!!
Because of the sun, the sand and the dust you quickly become thirsty!!
Better buy a couple of bottles of water outside before coming in.
If you don't your only option would be to buy some water to the local kids. They seem to have water supply in big cans. I wouldn't trust this kind of water too much and I was glad to have my own bottle with me ;-)
Even more, there is precisely a little shop close to the entrance and it is not too overpricy! You simply have to cross a street...
Written Jan 4, 2005
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