The ultra-luxurious Conrad Hotel .....where my 'generous' clients had arranged accommodation for me !
The entrance to the hotel
Ultimate luxury
The hotel lobby
Me relaxing on one of my double beds
The majestic view of the Nile from my room's balcony !
The swimming pool, from the balcony of my room
Clicked from my hotel
Pure luxury :)
The Nile !
Lobby
She used to play the piano in the lobby every evening !
The Nile towers - which hosts 'Mobinil' company - my client. This is where I went to work for 2 weeks !
The Arkadia mall ...walking distance away from the hotel and the office
Cornish of the Nile
Feluccas on the Nile
Sunset at the Nile
With Mourad - an Algerian Computer engineer I met on the Felucca
An Egyptian couple enjoying the evening breeze
Floating restaurants
Early morning at the Nile
Streets of Cairo
Pyramids of Giza
Close-up of the base of the Great Pyramid !
Don't know which Pharoah's tomb this leads to :)
Camels
This guy coaxed me into getting myself clicked perched on the camel ....and even charged a 'baksheesh' for it !
Poor camel !
Me standing on the Great Pyramid of Cheops - the largest of the Pyramids ......for nearly 5000 years, this had been the tallest man-made structure in the world ....until the sky-scrapers at Manhattan took over in the early part of the 20th century
The entrance to the Great Pyramid of Cheops ...this vault led to a steep and narrow passage, that took me to a chamber right in the heart of the pyramid.
Tourists flocking at the Pyramid complex
Solar boat of Cheops ...this was unearthed right next to the Great Pyramid
The back of the Sphynx , as seen from the Pyramids
Sphynx
Wasn't in Obelix who broke the Sphynx's nose ? ;)
The deserts around the Pyramids and the suburb of Giza beyond it
With Quinn and Ramy - an American and an Egyptian friend I made at Giza !
The Egyptian Museum
Egyptian Museum - which houses among other things .....real 'mummies' and Tutankhamen's treasures !
Me on one of the many bridges that cut across the Nile !
The Communications tower
At Coptic Cairo - this is the ancient Christian quarter of the city. In the background is the ancient Roman church
The Hanging Church ....the church so gets its name because of the fact that it was built on the endge of an ancient Roman fortress
Murals on the walls of the Hanging Church
A Coptic service in progress inside the Hanging Church
Copts offering their prayers
This is inside a crypt below the church.....The board in French says that this was the spot of a humble dwelling of the infant Jesus Christ (and Joseph/Mary when they were in Egypt on exile) to escape the infanticide ( in Israel)
The heaviest necklace I've ever worn :)
An Egyptian lady sells merchandise on the street
The Roman legacy
Statues at the Greek cemetry
Ancient excavations
Streets of Coptic Cairo
Houses at Coptic Cairo
Typical streets of Coptic Cairo ....nothing much has changed here since the time Jesus is believed to have walked here
A bus station
A mosque near the Khan-Khalili market
Khan-Khalili market - this market had operational since centuries
The streets of the market are like a maze !
Hookahs for sale
Architecture at the Islamic quarters of the city
A mural of Mobinil - our clients ..inside a mall
The twin towers are the National bank of Egypt
Lions guarding a bridge across the Nile
Floating hotels
An ad for Mobinil - our client !
Apartment blocks
The metro .... Cairo is the only city in the whole of Africa to have a metro
Night life !
This part of Cairo was originally modelled on Paris ....
Inside the Arkadia mall
People fishing at the Nile
The main railway station at Cairo - Mubarak station (previously known as Ramses station)
Inside the railway station
Walking up to Al-Qa'ala - the citadel housing the huge fort of Saladdin
Parts of Saladdin's fort
The Mohamed Ali mosque draws inspiration from Turkish architecture
European tourists at the fort
Ibrahim Pasha's statue
Court-yard inside the Mohamed Ali mosque
Inside the Mohamed Ali mosque
Elaborate patterns on the ceiling of the mosque
Exit from the mosque
View of Islamic Cairo ...in the background is the citadel
The fort of Saladin at the Citadel
Walls of Saladin's fort ....these walls had one day meant to defend against the Christian crusaders from the west !
Ancient catapault
Straight out of the Arabian Nights !
Inside Khan-Khalili market
The approach to Saladin's fort
Saladin - the Arab hero who fought in the Holy Crusades ....his main opponent in the Crusades was the English king - 'Richard the Lionheart', whose statue lies outside the Parliament building at Westminster, London !
The Pyramids of Giza, as seen from Saladin's fort
Watch tower on the fort
The city of Cairo !
