Pyramids at Giza |
Climbing the Pyramid |
Meeting school friends... on a pyramid! |
Pyramidal reunion |
Pyramids aren't so heavy... |
Hey - one in each hand! |
A moment to capture |
The Sphinx's inscrutable smile |
Sphinx and Cheops |
A wander around the pyramids at Giza |
Camel Ride at Giza |
Yikes! |
Will we ever see them again? |
This thing goes down in front! |
Are we there yet? |
Anyone feel seasick? |
We're off to see the Wizard! |
Scarab hunted at Giza |
Sue's
Birthday Picnic - in a Felucca on the Nile
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Scarab found at Giza |
Felucca-eye view of the Nile |
Yep - it's m' birthday! |
A contented Willem |
Nick and The Birthday Girl! |
Our captain |
Jan Willem, sailing on a BIG canal! |
Who needs a cruise ship? |
Willem - Feluccas are fun! |
Tacking down the Nile |
Dick, having a peaceful ride |
Willem & Dick - grand relations |
Family picnic on the Nile for Sue's birthday |
GRAND grandsons - Willem, Dick, Nick |
Home safe and dry |
Memphis - Colossus Of Ramesses II |
Ramesses II |
Pondering the Colossus |
Memphis
& Suqqara - and "Bargaining"
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Our guide regales |
Saqqara step pyramid |
At the Saqqara necropolis |
Us tourists |
Bargaining at the Memphis open-air museum |
A shrewd assessment of the goods |
Driving a hard bargain |
Searching for Horemheb in his tomb |
Seen anybody that looks like this? |
Mohammed Ali Mosque |
Dad and his guys at the mosque |
Les Boyz |
Mohammed Ali Mosque in all its grandeur |
City view from the Mohammed Ali Mosque |
The golden lighting inside the mosque |
Dick keeping his ears from getting sunburned |
Cairo Museum |
Three eminences |
Museum entrance |
Nile looking north from our room in the Sheraton |
Nile, looking south |
Nile from out our window in rthe Sheraton |
Sound and Light show at the pyramids - |
Sound and Light show - Nick's own |
Sound
and Light Show at Giza
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Getting darker, close to Show Time! |
Sun setting behind Cheops |
Sphinx at dusk |
Bagpipers piping in the audience. |
Sphinx gussied up for the |
Sound and Light show (in valient |
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