hanging out at the beach in Dahab with an American I'd met in Jordan & a Peez container
smoking sheesa in a sand pit inside a windsurf shop
trying to climb a rock wall barefooted
the Nile, Cairo, Egypt
Cairo
Felucca boats
Cornice Del Nile street where I had my accident
hooks coming out of my arm
another great Cairo building
& another great building
the mosque at the Cidadel
the tall building was paid for using US dollars given for weapondry
funky Coptic church
the inside of that church
look at all the satelight dishes!
trash town
a nice park in the city
sunset over the Nile
The “Step Pyramid” at Saqqara, it's the first pyramid.
inside a tomb at the Step Pyramid
The “Bent Pyramid” at Dahshur. The architect made a mistake with the angles!
The "Red Pyramid" at Dahshur. This pyramid is the world's first true pyramid.
These are the pyramids Egypt's famous for. They were the largest buildings in the entire world until just 200 years ago.
and here's the sphinx
Deir el-Bahri In Luxor: The 4,500 yr old Pharaoh Queen Hatsepshut's Temple & site of the 1997 al-Qaeda attacks that killed 58 tourists
look at the 4 open coffins on the ground!
this is the “Valley of the Kings” in Luxor where tons of Kings tombs, including King Tut's, are dug deep underground
another temple
There was ancient grafitti everywhere... this was the oldest I found but there were others, which were probably older, in languages I couldn't read
This is where the workers who made the tombs lived. Their own tombs are high on that hill.
a pyramid a worker built for his own tomb
inside a great tomb
inside a tomb
the ceiling of a tomb
a local village
a beautiful door
The home of a local family that invited us in for tea & bread
that local family that gave us tea & bread
dinner with 2 of the Egyptologist
The Eyptologist & I sitting in an active archelogy dig site (it's an old Roman bath)
Karnak temple
having a nice lunch in the home of one of the local Egyptian archelogists
Luxor Temple entrance
early Christians painted over old Egyptian hyierogliphs
a row of sphinxs
in random village in the middle of Egypt
a random town
all along the Nile is really lush green then it suddenly stops & becomes unbearably dry desert
driving thru the desert with a police essort in front of us & behind
some kids on donkeys... going to school??
Coptic Christian secion of Cairo (Loved this broken cross!)
inside an old church
a rather shabby cemetry
the “Hanging Church”, still don't understand why they call it hanging
inside that church
The famous Alexandrian harbor
families swiming in the water - fully clothed!
a random goat by the beach
Alexandria is one of the more beautiful Egyptian cities
After the ancient Alexandrian lighthouse (a wonder of the ancient world) colapsed in an earthqquake, this new one was built in the 1400's
