Egypt photos

I've posted photos from our trip to Egypt last week. Normally I try to keep the number of images below 80 or so, but this time there were so many good ones (in my humble opinion) that I just couldn't whittle it down that far. So there are over 200 of them this time.

Sure, there are probably too many photos of statues and temples. But that stuff is cool.

Back from Egypt

We arrived home yesterday afternoon. Brilliant, unforgettable trip. I'm trying to sort through the photos and get them up quickly -- otherwise, there are so many of them that I'm afraid I'll put it off for months (I still haven't posted the photos from our Easter trip to Paris).

A little slice of Egypt

Got this from the hotel people last night and thought it was worth sharing:

PS:Please avoid Airport hustlers and hotel touts on your way to Luna.((airport Travel Agents Rep & Be ware from the tourism people at the airport, they will offer there help to you, they will not help you, they will try to change your hotel direction that you booked to another hotel that they can get commasion, as example they will tell you about your booking in this hotel: The Hotel is closed, damaged, burned .etc, so do not trust the tourism people at the airport because at the end they will raped you off. )).

[ View of Cairo from the Cairo Tower ]

Goin' back to Egypt

Kim and I are going to Egypt June 14th, for 8 days. I don't know why, but receiving our visas today was pretty exciting -- even for me, and I've been there before. I visited about 11 years ago. The photo, left, is mine.

The visas themselves are cool, whole-passport-page deals. The Arab Republic of Egypt. It's sounds exotic, and it is. So far it's one of the most challenging and rewarding places I've ever been. Like anywhere in the Muslim world, for a western person to wake up to the sounds of the muezzin calling the faithful to prayer, it sure reminds you that you aren't in Kansas anymore.

The Egyptian people are some of the warmest, most curious, most welcoming, and annoying I've ever visited. It's all good. I loved it last time and I'm sure we'll love it this time. And kudos to Kim for courageously agreeing to visit the Middle East on an American passport (I'm using my British one this time, too, since I've yet to renew my Canadian one). Still we'll probably tell everyone we're both Canadian. And married. 'Cause they will ask. And it's easier that way.