Egypt2008

Welcome to our blog of our two week visit in Egypt. One week was spent in Cairo and environs, the second aboard ship on a Nile river cruise. We will find the trip is packed with things to see, and places to go.
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Here, the exterior of the Cairo museum........no pictures inside, alas........

We are welcomed by this family for a home-hosted dinner in Cairo.

Our very first full day in Cairo............our hostess prepares typical fare for us to sample at her home. Small groups of us, some 15 in number, are scattered in various locations.

We see two of the three giant pyramids from our hotel in Giza, just south of Cairo. The tombs hidden inside were looted in antiquity, and all the goods and equipment needed in the afterlife by the entombed pharoahs are long gone.

The absolute immensity of the pyramids is apparent when one approaches and is dwarfed by the size.

Abdul the camel driver escorts queen Barbara ...........

Imagine, we are at a structure some 5,000 years old! These pyramids held the remains of Old Kingdom pharoahs; queens and major royal staffers had smaller tombs. The big ones, like this one for Cheops, was 480 feet tall and was composed of nearly 7 million tons of limestone.