One of the things that strikes me is how run-down most of the areas of Cairo look - there is trash everywhere, as well as dung. Cars share the road with buggies pulled by horses or mules. Camels are all over. Outside the city, there are areas where there are lush palm trees all over, and fields of farming - very pretty. We headed into the pyramid of Titi, which from the outside doesn't look like a pyramid, but instead a huge mound of sand and stone. This is one of the first pyramids to be inscribed inside. Inside we first [View Full Entry]

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We woke up early on Saturday July 14th and headed to the Great Pyramids, which was only a short drive from where we were. Some of the information that Mahmoud gave us included the following: The biggest one is the 5th one built, and it took about 20 years to build. There are enough blocks of stone in the Great Pyramid to build a wall around France 3 meters high and 1 meter wide. X-Ray machines won't work inside the pyramids because it has some sort of magnetic waves that prevent it from working. Inside the Great Pyramid - they believe [View Full Entry]

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Pictures were not allowed inside the Cairo Egyptian Museum, so none were taken while inside. So the pictures connected with this piece are from other parts of the trip, that I may not have covered indepth enough during my journaling to warrant a single entry. There are sites as well as books that have great pictures and descriptions of what is all in the museum. The official site for the museum is http://www.egyptianmuseum.gov.eg/news.asp. On a random side note, one of the interesting things about driving in Cairo is that the lane markers don't mean anything - as many cars that can [View Full Entry]

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The plane ride from NY, NY to Cairo, Egypt ended up taking less than 11 hours, so our arrival into Cairo's airport was around 5:15 am EST and 1215 in Egypt. Some people were able to sleep on the plane ride over - I was not one of them. The better part of almost two hours was spent unloading the plane, getting luggage, and getting the group to the bus in order for us to be transported across town to our hotel. After getting loaded onto the bus, we met our tour guide Mahmoud, who would be with us during our [View Full Entry]

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It is currently 6:30 pm EST on Thursday July 12th, and 1:30 am on July 13th in Egypt. We are about to embark on an 11-hour plane flight across the Atlantic putting us in Cairo from JFK airport. First though, I just spent 36 hours traveling and touring in New York City. It all began at about 7 am on Wednesday morning where after spending the night with Lizzie, Mom and I took off and picked up her friend Terri and headed to Columbus airport where we flew out to NYC and arrived in the afternoon at JFK airport. The first [View Full Entry]

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