http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/cc99chick/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from cc99chick en-us Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:37:11 +0000 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:37:11 +0000 One of the things that strikes me is how rundown 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-202183.html 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.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-200239.html 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.XRay machines won' http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-195428.html 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 515 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 t http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-195258.html It is currently 630 pm EST on Thursday July 12th and 130 am on July 13th in Egypt. We are about to embark on an 11hour 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 f http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/New-York/Manhattan/blog-195227.html