All of the Facebook photos were taken with my iPhone but I also lugged around my Nikon. Between Nora and I, we took almost 1000 pictures – the very best will be posted here in a series of galleries. Here is the first one with highlights of our trip to Cairo and Giza.
Church dome in Cario
Waiting for a synagogue to open in Cairo. It contained a rock that Moses supposedly stood on when he talked to God. Kai was impressed but our guide shrugged and said "Meh, Moses talked to God on a lot of rocks, yes?"
At the Egyptian museum in Cairo
At the Egyptian museum in Cairo
Crystal with a husky Sphinx
Papyrus at the Egyptian museum
The Cairo Museum - an absolute wonder and we barely scratched the surface with the morning we spent there.
Pyramid view - taken from the hotel balcony.
The grand pyramid as seen from the Hotel Mina
Pyramid wakeup shot
Checking out of the Mina hotel
The grand pyramid as seen from the Hotel Mina
Jacobs family picture at the grand pyramid
Jacobs family picture at the grand pyramid
The opening on the grand pyramid
A short climb up the side.
Jacobs family picture from the Pyramid overlook. It is amazing how quickly you go from urban to desert.
Nora patting the top of the pyramid
Nora at the pyramids
Getting ready for the obligatory (for the kids at least) camel ride at the pyramids
And up he goes.
Hang on Nora!
If she stays on for a full 10 seconds she wins a prize
Kai and Nora off on thier camel trek
One last picture before dismounting
Pyramid view
Crystal with pyramids
Sphinx!
As up close and personal as it is posssible to get to the Sphinx
The grand burial causeway leading to the pyramid
One last picture of the Sphinx
The step pyramid at Sakara
Temple entry at Sakara
Jacobs family with the first pyramid
Inside the burial chamber of King Titi. No photos allowed but the guides were eager enough to let us do it for a few Egyptian pounds.
Jacobs family in a no-photo zone.
With the sarcophagus of King Titi - we were ab out 30 feet underground I would guess.
Inside the first mosque in Egypt
Crystal donning her mosque apparel
Kai and Nora in the Cairo Museum
This pharoh had a very small head it seems
Attempt at an HDR shot of the pyramids from the Mina House hotel
Kai on the road
climbing the great pyramid
Jacobs family on the great pyramid
Nora taking a picture of the Sphinx
Kai at lunch
Nora at lunch on the way to Sakara
Nora taking a picture of the collosus of Memnon
Nora on the Nile Cruise - we were leaving other boats in our wake on our race to the lock
Crystal on the pool deck during a Nile sunset
