The Planned Route

The Planned Route
This is as close to "final" as the planned route is likely to get... I don't intend to do any more updates to it. If it changes, I'll mention it in future posts. All but a few of the green lines represent flight segments. Looks like we have a lot of reading in store...

Time Saver

If you want to jump to the beginning of the trip... click here. After that, you can just click "newer post" to read them in order.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

OK... I Give Up


We really cannot keep up with the date or day of the week or day of the trip, so I’ll just let the blog do it’s thing.

I’ll just do some rereading as we go and fill in where I left things out.

Cairo

Arrived on time yesterday and were met at the airport as planned by the tour rep. That was a nice change from having to find transportation into town (taxis in Europe are plenty expensive). The dollar is doing really poorly making things very expensive, however, Egypt seems to be a little better than Europe was.

We checked into the hotel and then promptly met Ahmed, our guide, for a tour of the Egypt Museum, which is right next to the hotel. The museum contained just about everything concerning King Tut including all the stuff that has made the rounds in the US over the past several years. Cameras were not allowed inside so there are no photos of that stuff to share.

We finished up the museum tour about 5 pm and then went to the pool for a dip… very refreshing!! I thought about doing some laundry simultaneously á la the Tierra Verde Yacht Club (hi, Billy) but decided we would rather continue to be welcomed at this hotel. It is a dandy place and we are enjoying the stay here. This is the view of the Nile from our balcony.

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Today consisted of a leisurely breakfast followed by an all day tour to Giza (the Pyramids), Memphis (the ancient capital) and Sakkara for a look at some of the older pyramids and a tour through a tomb.

Here are a few photos from the day. Remember, there are more photos on the TravelPages site for which there is a link to the right (sorry about the repeats… there are a few):

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Well, tomorrow is the flight from hell… we leave here for Capetown, South Africa and to get there we go through Athens, Frankfurt and Johannesburg. I’ll be sure to let you know how it goes. Later.

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