We checked out at 2; Memphis picked us up at 3 for the hour trip to the airport. Through security where they objected to the knife which has never been a problem anywhere as it goes as checked luggage, followed by security Here security is before AND after check-in. The second one is worse, shoes, […]
Our last tour, the Cave church, is not to be missed. But to get there, we had to drive through the Zabbaleen city, probably the reason Memphis don’t do this tour. Zabbaleen means “garbage people” in Egyptian Arabic applied to teenagers and adults who have served as Cairo’s informal garbage collectors since the 1940s. The […]
On this our last day we, together with the rest of Cairo as it was a free day, visited the old Egyptian Museum at Tahiri Square, established in 1902 by the French. It holds items for four periods of Egyptian history from the archaic period through the Roman and Byzantine periods up to 640BC. The […]
Our first day on the CMI tour – the Giza plateau and Sakkara necropolis. First stop to see the step pyramid of Djoser and the Funerary Temple and the Pyramid of Unace and also the tomb of Shesheshet Idot. The most spectacular and well preserved discoveries in Egypt are now being made at Saqqara outside […]
We did absolutely nothing! In preparation for the big tour, the group gathered in a large room to meet the team leading the trip. Three busses, two guides on each, one local, one in CMI, both having good Egyptian history knowledge, plus the Manager team of Gary and Fran. The group size is about 100. […]
I had booked two days of places to go to, one being Coptic Cairo (Old Town of Cairo), a protected area. We stopped next to the Roman wall, the foundations of which were several metres down. The Church of St. George next to it is a Greek Orthodox church within the Babylon Fortress in Coptic Cairo. It is part of the Holy Patriarchal […]
We were late waking at 9 to a dead phone (no adapter). Peigi and Jason were up at 7; they met us at the huge breakfast selection. Peigi had already contacted insurance, so we will go shopping nearby! And she has a spare adapter to charge my phone. The massive two level mall is a […]