Royal Crown Hotel Cairo

... back, where we stood next to the Sphinx. After that we went back to meet our car & driver. All in all it was an amazing morning.

The next stop on our tour was the Pyramids at Saqqara. These were actually the first Pyramids built in Egypt, the very first one being the step Pyramid, built in 2650 BC. Here we explored some tombs with much feistier touts (I think this is because fewer people visit). It was fascinating to see the hieroglyphs and ...

... all their hole-y people in one place. I fully expected the fawning disposition and false friendliness of Turkey, but except at the tourist sites themselves, it doesn’t seem that way.

Travel agents seem particularly incompetent, too, none of them able to tell you much about anything, all just doling out the same packages that are most commonplace. Or maybe I just expect too much. So here’s my newest plan- I do the flight to Beirut ...

... contacted the place by e-mail and gave them my flight info for pick-up. That generated some sort of ‘auto-reply’ to be responded to fully later. When I received no further response I informed them I was therefore canceling and proceded to book elsewhere, the Blue Bird Hotel. Meanwhile the New Palace contacted me and tersely informed me that they indeed HAD contacted me and that I should check my inbox before accusing them. I checked my ...

... I have most enjoyed the bass-reliefs in a tomb of a noble, which displays the ordinary lives of people 4,600 years ago - each face is different and in each face you see hope and hardship, pleasure and joy, despair and regret. The pyramids and temples inspire in me the same awe as the people who viewed them when they were new - but they are remote and unearthly, something apart for flesh and bone. The tombs of Ramses inspire me with glorious and colorful conviction of an ...

... When I woke up, I made the decision that I wanted to join Mo, Fahim, and Sheikh Haddad in fasting. I took off for the Old Cairo Tour without food or water. The Old Cairo tour was supposed to leave at 9:30, but since this is Egypt, it left at 10:30. At least there was A/C on the bus. We started in a Christian section home to the fortress of Fortress of Babel. We visited the suspended church, a church literally on stilts so when you look down from it you feel "suspended" in mid-air ...

... accommodation at 5stars Nile Cruise (FB).

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... and sweaty and going through our water in a big way. Inside the museum which was heavily guarded in and outside it was marginally cooler. This museum is massive with enormous amounts of artefacts from the archaeological digs around the country from the pyramids nearby but most from the southern area around Luxor and the Valley of the Kings and Karnak areas. This is where Tutankhamen’s tomb was famously uncovered in the 1920’s by the archaeologist Howard Carter. The Tutankhamen ...

I woke up early unsure of what I should do today. It was going to be a hot day here in Aleppo, Syria. Hot and long. I was supposed to go on an all day tour of several ancient Christian ruins where Saint Simeon once lived atop a solitary pillar in isolated, holy contemplation. That night, I was scheduled for a flight to Istanbul, Turkey at the ungodly hour of 3:45 AM. Yes, it was going to be a very long day. I stumbled downstairs to the hostel lobby and informed the owner I was ...

... boats and even a TGI Fridays right on the River Nile. The one cool thing that happened was when we docked, a local wedding party was already there waiting to get on our boat after us. You could hear lots of drums and singing from far away. It made us happy just to see people having such a great time and got us thinking about all our friends and family we hadn’t seen since our big day.
The next day we toured Cairo’s neighbors Memphis, Saqqara, and Giza. We stopped ...

... to w*lk somewhere you liter*lly h*ve to w*lk out into tr*ffic, *nd b*sic*lly pr*y th*t you m*ke it *cross. We usu*lly tried to w*it for when loc*ls would cross *nd try to run with them, but sometimes we h*d to forge out on our own…Colin *nd I did some reminiscing *bout cross w*lks in Germ*ny!! The pollution is so b*d th*t being in C*iro for one d*y is like smoking 30 cig*rettes *nd you feel like you *re choking *ll d*y. The const*nt honking competing with the ...