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Thursday, February 21, 2008
We are welcomed by this family for a home-hosted dinner in Cairo.
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We are welcomed by this family for a home-hosted d...
Our very first full day in Cairo............our ho...
We see two of the three giant pyramids from our ho...
The absolute immensity of the pyramids is apparent...
Abdul the camel driver escorts queen Barbara ........
Imagine, we are at a structure some 5,000 years ol...
Our visit to the famous Sphinx was on our second f...
We enjoyed a train ride up from Cairo, to see the ...
This was the only day we had rainy and chilly weat...
The library in Alexandria was destroyed by the Rom...
On the grounds of the Alexandria library complex, ...
The fort in Alexandria bay.
King Farouk's summer place in the Montazah gardens...
We did a tour of spiritual Cairo, coincidentally o...
The famous Cairo bazaar, the Khan El Khalili. Ven...
Barb and Lynne chat with two of our guides, who ar...
This is our personal bodyguard! Really! He follo...
The very first stop upon flying south to the city ...
Luxor temple exists right in the middle of the mod...
A row of ram-headed sphinxes links Luxor temple wi...
The paired Colossi of Memnon are undergoing restor...
Barb stands above one of the Colossi of Memnon, al...
Tourism is big business in Egypt. We are walking ...
Workers fashioning alabaster items in time-honored...
Near Luxor (later called Thebes by the Greeks) are...
Dozens of pharoahs were entombed here, in the vall...
Most of the tombs which should have been hidden ha...
Near the ancient city of Luxor, we visit Karnak te...
Huge columns are but a part of Karnak temple. Thi...
Some of these obelisks were plundered by European ...
There are clues to how the ancient Egyptians moved...
...........as do the remnants of mud brick walls o...
A long alley between Luxor and Karnak temples is b...
Life is not all temples, temples and temples.........
............we have a galabeya party, where we dre...
.............some of us go for an early morning ba...
..................enjoy the dance of a "whirling d...
..........are entertained by a Nubian show..........
..................we dance one night..........
Life along the Nile...........ancient ways, but el...
.............another river scene.........
Cruising along the Nile, looking at ancient Egypt ...
The temple of Hathor, at Dendara, is typical of Gr...
We stop on our sail up the Nile at Edfu, where the...
The temple of Horus was started about 237 BC by Pt...
It is easy to get "temple overload" so we have som...
Fred takes our picture while we sail along, just m...
A felucca trailing us on the Nile, near the city o...
Under very tight military security, we visit the i...
The power generated here has supplied all of Egypt...
View of Lake Nasser looking south...........it is ...
We jam ourselves into an antiquated motor launch t...
On a small island south of the Aswan Dam lies this...
The carvings of this pylon at the temple of Phil...
Abu Simbel is our last major stop on our tour. It...
These statues of Rameses II are 67 feet high, dwar...
Abu Simbel monuments and temples were saved from t...
The Pharoah Ramese II is here shown smiting his en...
The great wife of Rameses II, Queen Nefertari, is ...
Home at last, after a 12 hour direct flight from C...
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