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Photos: Alexandria

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Photos: Cairo, incl. Coptic Cairo

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Photos: Aswan, Kalabsha, Philae, Abu Simbel, Nubian Village

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Photos: Deir el-Bahri, Valley of the Kings, Karnak, Luxor,

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Photos: Nile Cruise 1, Edfu, Kom Ombo

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Photos: Giza Pyramids, Saqqara, Abusir, Dashur

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Alexandria - Day 9

Thursday, 22 Dec 2016 | Views [652]

Day 9  Alexandria Alexandria is the site of legends and mystery.  The city in the great Delta area ordered to be constructed by Alexander the Great, who never lived to see it completed, has been the locus of some of the major events in ... Read more >

Tags: city visit


Coptic Cairo - Day 8

Thursday, 22 Dec 2016 | Views [586]

Day 8 Coptic Cairo Before heading off to the Coptic section of the capital city, Cairo Ahmad and I stopped at the Blue Mosque, which isn’t really like the one in Istanbul despite the nickname and having been built by the same architect. The ... Read more >

Tags: city visit, religious tradition


Nubian Riches Days 6-7

Monday, 19 Dec 2016 | Views [791]

Day 6 Nubian and Egyptian Gods and Goddesses The boat docked overnight in Aswan. Aswan Ahmad met me on board and we headed out to a car waiting for us on the road above the boat dock. The first stop  was to the Aswan High Dam. What I found ... Read more >

Tags: egyptian temples, nile cruise, nubia


Ptolemaic Temples on the Nile - Day 5

Monday, 19 Dec 2016 | Views [626]

 Day 5 Ptolemaic Temples on the Nile The first stop on the cruise is to the temple at Edfu, which is supposed to be the best preserved temple in Egypt as it was protected by many meters of sand. The  Ptolemaic era temple is dedicated ... Read more >

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Luxor - Days 3-4

Monday, 19 Dec 2016 | Views [580]

Day 3 Tombs and Temples Woke early to catch a 7am flight to Luxor, formerly Thebes, the ancient capital with a couple of breaks, from the 11 th Dynasty (2120 BCE) to the 21 st (1085). As with the previous day, it should have been split into at ... Read more >

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Egypt - Cairo Days 1-2

Monday, 19 Dec 2016 | Views [515]

Day 1 First Impressions and the Egyptian Museum Arrived on a KLM flight in the middle of the night and hoped that the agent with whom I’d been in online contact was actually going to be at the airport to meet me. The prospect of arriving at ... Read more >

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