Just an aside. Chris learning to walk like an Egyptian.
One of our few pictures of the Nile. This was taken at Cairo.
Pick the Sphinx!
Pick Mohammed. The taxi driver for our trip to Saqqara and Drew exchange hats.
Chris loved this photo of the sheep going into a house in the back streets of Alexandria.
Just to prove we've been there! One of the 3 great pyramids of Giza and it's Sphinx.Yahoo, an upgrade from Delhi to London, 5 hours in London airport where they took our unopened bottled water we got from the aeroplane - poobah then a drunken flight to Cairo. There was a man in the backseat moaning and screaming so security came and got him in a headlock. I did not know whether to be scared or feel very sorry for him. I think he was being deported. At Cairo airport Drew and his Egyptian drinking buddy had their passports taken off them while I was ushered through. I and assume Drew had an anxious 5 minutes before they let them through. I left my reading glasses in the taxi in my exhausted state, never to be seen again.
We had a free day in Cairo before the tour started (to sleep, change money and get our bearings in a new city). Police everywhere - this, apparently was normal.The tour leader 25 year old Aussy Amanda was fantastic and the rest of our group of 9 happy campers went off to the Giza pyramids and the Cairo museum, then an overnight seater train to Aswan where it was my turn for Cairo belly which made it a very yucky night and next day for me.Meanwhile Drew went on a felluca ride down the nile while I stayed in my cabin. When I emerged the boat staff were great. 4 nights and 3 days on the cruise ship on the Nile I will never forget, it was fantastic, even better than I hoped for. We visited lots of historical sites, road donkeys , I was petrified for the first 15 minutes and Drew cound not get on so they threw him over the donkey like a sack of potatoes and somehow swivelled him so his legs were apart. There he spent an agonising 1 hour jiggling on the donkey. I belly laughed all the way to the valley of the kings. We saw the usual sights in Aswan and Edfu , Luxor where we went on an early morning hot air balloon ride and took a horse and cart ride to Karnak temple. The next day we went to the Valley of the workers - everybody back then was mummyfied (after death of course).
We joined the bus convoy from Luxor to Hurghada, a Red Seaside resort town - not that we had any choice. Tourists are not aloud to travel in between those 2 destinations unless in convoy due to the terrorist attacks previously made on tourists. Snorkelled in the Red sea and relaxed by the sea for 2 days, then another bus convoy back to Cairo.
Now we are on our own in Cairo for 4 days. The first day was spent with our buddies Caroline and Sandy. We bargained the taxi ride from 20 Egyptian pounds to 10 and then Drew had such fun with the taxi driver that he paid 20 anyway. Our buds teased Drew but he was very happy. We saw another mosque, the old city and a great market and walked our feet off. We went back to the Cairo museum and braved the metro on our own - what brave vegemites we are.
The second last day in Egypt was spent in Alexandria. We caught the metro (underground) then a country train there and back. Shelley would be proud of us - All the way there and back and did not get lost once. We saw lots of stuff - Monuments and forts and mosques and Roman ruins and ended the day with a fantastic fish dinner. This may sound very boring to you guys but the fish was very exciting to us.
The last day was spent going by taxi back to Giza pyramids and also visiting Saqqarah pyramids and the Memphis museum, then catching up on the internet - thus this blog, and generally mucking around.
Egyptian people , in our experience, are very friendly and helpful. They speak quite alot of English and drive like madmen. Egpyt gets a big tick from us.
We had a free day in Cairo before the tour started (to sleep, change money and get our bearings in a new city). Police everywhere - this, apparently was normal.The tour leader 25 year old Aussy Amanda was fantastic and the rest of our group of 9 happy campers went off to the Giza pyramids and the Cairo museum, then an overnight seater train to Aswan where it was my turn for Cairo belly which made it a very yucky night and next day for me.Meanwhile Drew went on a felluca ride down the nile while I stayed in my cabin. When I emerged the boat staff were great. 4 nights and 3 days on the cruise ship on the Nile I will never forget, it was fantastic, even better than I hoped for. We visited lots of historical sites, road donkeys , I was petrified for the first 15 minutes and Drew cound not get on so they threw him over the donkey like a sack of potatoes and somehow swivelled him so his legs were apart. There he spent an agonising 1 hour jiggling on the donkey. I belly laughed all the way to the valley of the kings. We saw the usual sights in Aswan and Edfu , Luxor where we went on an early morning hot air balloon ride and took a horse and cart ride to Karnak temple. The next day we went to the Valley of the workers - everybody back then was mummyfied (after death of course).
We joined the bus convoy from Luxor to Hurghada, a Red Seaside resort town - not that we had any choice. Tourists are not aloud to travel in between those 2 destinations unless in convoy due to the terrorist attacks previously made on tourists. Snorkelled in the Red sea and relaxed by the sea for 2 days, then another bus convoy back to Cairo.
Now we are on our own in Cairo for 4 days. The first day was spent with our buddies Caroline and Sandy. We bargained the taxi ride from 20 Egyptian pounds to 10 and then Drew had such fun with the taxi driver that he paid 20 anyway. Our buds teased Drew but he was very happy. We saw another mosque, the old city and a great market and walked our feet off. We went back to the Cairo museum and braved the metro on our own - what brave vegemites we are.
The second last day in Egypt was spent in Alexandria. We caught the metro (underground) then a country train there and back. Shelley would be proud of us - All the way there and back and did not get lost once. We saw lots of stuff - Monuments and forts and mosques and Roman ruins and ended the day with a fantastic fish dinner. This may sound very boring to you guys but the fish was very exciting to us.
The last day was spent going by taxi back to Giza pyramids and also visiting Saqqarah pyramids and the Memphis museum, then catching up on the internet - thus this blog, and generally mucking around.
Egyptian people , in our experience, are very friendly and helpful. They speak quite alot of English and drive like madmen. Egpyt gets a big tick from us.
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