We both with Margy have had in mind to visit Egypt last 10 years, but every time we postponed by some reasons. Manly, we were afraid…But this time we decided to go in every case - in the beginning of April 2017 for 10 days. Our daughter bought us airplane tickets like gift for my Birth Day. We celebrated my round 80-th BD on the British Airways plane to London with champagne and scotch… From London, we went to Abu-Dhabi, from there back to Cairo. We were met on the Airport by Egyptian Nile Tours and delivered to our hotel “The Pyramids” by private car with driver and English speaking guide in Cairo Mr. Sobhy Ibrahim. On the way, they drove to the old Coptic city of Cairo and the Citadel of Aladdin, where we saw all the city form the top of the hill. We saw the oldest ruins of The Fortress of Babylon and visited The Mohammed Ali Mosque, The Dramatic Hanging Church and the oldest St. Sargius Church over the cave, place where the Holly Family are believed to have rested, after their journey to Egypt. We stopped in the old Bazar to buy two masks of famous Tutankhamun and Nefertiti and some small souvenirs and 3-4 printed with old scenes papyruses. We crossed 2-3 times Nile, drove around the Tower of Cairo. Next day we visited the Great Pyramids and The Spinks (closed to our hotel) and spent all afternoon in the Egyptian Museum. After flying to Aswan on 3-rd day by local small plane we spent 5 days on the Cruise Ship - floating hotel on Nile We saw The Unfinished Obelisk, droved by car to Abu Simbel Temple (on the Border with Sudan) through the South Sahara Desert 250 km. and back, visited the two Aswan Damps and the Lake of Nasar. Floating to Luxor, on the way we visited the Temples of Kom Ombo and Edfu. The most interesting for us was Luxor - “The Touristic Capitol of the World”. There we visited The Temples of Karnak and Luxor, The Valleys of the Kings and the Quins, The Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut and The Colossi of Memnon. All the time from the Air Ports of Aswan to Luxor we were accompanied by our second guide Mr. Ragab Alazab. He lived with us on the Ship-Hotel. Last evening he invited us to see his wife and the 6 month daughter in his luxury apartment in Luxor, coved by white marble. After flying back to Cairo, we were met on the Airport by our first guide Mr. Sobhy and drove to the oldest Coptic Cave Church around Cairo. After the service of Palm Sunday we look inside and around it and took palm leaves from the church like souvenirs. We slept the last night in one hotel closed to the Airport and next morning we took the shuttle to the Airport for the flight back to London-Seattle. It was the most interesting and cheapest excursion over sea we did last 12 years after our second retirement in USA. We used horse carriage like taxi, rode camels between Pyramids, floated on Nile by sail-boat to the Nubian Village around Aswan. Our co-excursiants were mainly Chines people, locals rich couples and some families from Japan and Canada. Our two guides were very educated and polite Egyptologist, speaking excellent English. The tips (bakshish) were asked and given everywhere… Thank you VIATOR (A TripAdvisor Company) for organizing this excellent excursion, which returned us back in the time of Pharaohs - 5,000 years ago. In this album are shown only some photos from the old city of Cairo and the Citadel
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