Fresco of St George slaying the dragon
Sculpture of St George slaying the dragon
Metal sculpture of St George slaying the dragon
Arabic notice bolted onto ancient Greek sign
This painting dates back to 18 AD!
Ancient Roman building in Coptic Cairo
Metal sculpture of the virgin Mary
Downtown Cairo has large billboards above the buildings
Abou Tarek makes the best Koshari in Cairo and probably in the world.
Whirling dervishes
At the great pyramids in Giza
Staring at the Sphynx
Staring at the Sphynx's ass
Pyramids everywhere!
pyramid edge
Some sultan tried to destroy one of the great pyramids but gave up after only making it this far in 8 months.
Don walks by a pyramid
Pretty big, eh?
Walking away from a great pyramid
A Beatles moment at the great pyramids
Cairo is the loudest city in the world.
Sailing down the Nile in a felucca
There's a lot of sand in the Sahara.
The dhelds sliding down a sand dune
Dave and I having a StreetFighter moment atop a sand dune while our guide looks on.
Sliding down a sand dune is harder than I thought.
Inactive volcanoes like this one spewed the magma that forms the black desert.
The dhelds set off to ascend a hill in the black desert.
They were slow so I made it up far ahead of them.
Dave on top of the hill
Pondering life atop a hill in the black desert
A hut in the Sahara
Don peeps out from behind a giant mushroom-shaped chalk formation in the white desert.
Don traps the moon
Then she eats it.
Camel dung in the Sahara
The white colour is due to all the chalk deposits.
Silhouetted in the white desert
Sunrise in the white desert.
Mud tomb from the 7th century.
Awesome curved brick roof :-)
Egypt has no shortage of sand.
Mud huts in the valley of the whales
Amazing rock formations in the valley of the whales
whale bones from 40 million years ago
The Sahara used to be a sea bed once!
Walking by cool rock formations in the valley of the whales
Some of the rocks look like they are melting.
Cross-section of a whale's spinal disc
The stratification in these rock formations dazzled me.
More whale bones...
This one looks like an armadillo.
The dhelds being silly
This may be where the Egyptians got the idea to build pyramids...
Fossilized mangrove roots
Don't these look like eye sockets?
Solar cells in the desert :-)
Synthetic waterfall in the Sahara
Visiting a synthetic lake in the Sahara
The first pyramid ever built
Entrance to the underground burial chamber of a pharaoh
Really crappy stone wall
Really nice stone wall right beside it.
Statue of a pharaoh outside a temple that was destroyed by an earthquake in 27 BC.
Remains of a garden planted by an ancient Egyptian queen
Wall carving of the ancient Egyptian fertility god
Ancient Egyptian suckling from a cow's udder
Ceiling of a temple. You can still see the blue dye.
Apparently this queen was famous for being fat!
Statues of a pharaoh in the Luxor temple
The pharaohs have small statues of their queens beside their shins.
This one must have been into gender equality.
Ancient Egyptian queen being fed by a god
standing under a ram sphynx in Luxor
A mall in Luxor with giant ads in the windows
Ram sphynx with a statue of Ramses below it
Mud ramps used to erect obelisks
The hypostyle hall in the Karnak temple complex once had a roof.
It remains the largest hypostyle hall ever built.
The Karnak temple complex is the largest religious construction in the entire world.
Ceiling of the temple of Amun-Re
Large statue of a scarab. Scarabs were considered to be a representation of the sun god.
The dhelds take a leaf from the ancent Egyptians.
Dave is happy to find a Google logo in Dahab.
Dahab is truly the Thailand of Egypt.
giant statue of a shellfish
Dave sporting a turban as we prepare to ascend Mt Sinai
View from the top of Mt Sinai
Mt Sinai has some fascinating rock formations.
Dave and me at Mt Sinai
