Cairo, Egypt - May 17

it was windy!

Nile

The Cairo Museum is the first stop today.  This is more like a warehouse than a museum – there is ‘stuff’ everywhere.  This place is truly amazing.  This is like what I would expect the storage areas of museums to be like.  We walk around with our guide for about half of our time there (which is only 2 hours and doesn’t seem nearly long enough.)  He tells us details about what we are looking at and the stories behind these details.  





lunch before pyramid visit

Next we are off to the requisite ‘shopping-stop’ then to lunch followed by the pyramids and the sphinx.  The pyramids are huge – as expected as is the sphinx.   One thing that did surprise me was how close they are to Cairo.  I expected a drive to the desert...but they are really part of Cairo - technically Giza on the other side of the river from Cairo.

From Cairo to Port Said where we are meeting the ship is a 3 hour drive.  For part of it we are driving parallel to the Suez Canal.  It was never possible from the boat to see the canal, but as we passed ships in the canal it was obvious that it was there.  The ship transited the canal today as we were in Cairo which initially disappointed me not to be part of.  Apparently there is nothing much to the canal.  

Our trip to Luxor and Cairo was amazing.  We got to see some unbelievable things and had a great experience.