Family TravelEgypt Sabbatical For our last day in Cairo, we went to the Egyptian Museum which was beautiful but camera avers and then to Saqqara (aka Sakara) which has some of the oldest tombs and the step pyramids. These were pictures on the wall inside one of the graves ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270001 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270002 The color is quite well preserved after almost 5000 years. They also have phone booths ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270003 though I think these are probably a recent addition. The step pyramid is quite a site ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270004 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270009 and made hills like this one ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270005 take on a new meaning. Walking along the paths in the old city of the dead ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270006 was quite an experience because the crowds were small compared to the area of the city. Of course, it was quite hot. This guard ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270007 asked me to take his picture and then demanded baksheesh. those of you viewing this should contribute to the pound I had to pay him . In the distance, across desert you could see the pyramids at Giza ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270008 We took a picture of one of the burial pits ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270010 but it was hard to see down 100 feet to the bottom. Then, the outside of the tombs ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270011 and the wall of cobras ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270012 left us ready to drive to Memphis which we could see from a distance ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270013 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270014 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270015

In Memphis, the main attraction is the gigantic status of Ramses II. Here are his head, ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270016 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270021 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270022 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270026 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270027 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270028 his belt cartouche, ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270017 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270024 his chest engraving, ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270018 his good arm, ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270019 (notice the strong muscle) ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270033 his shoulder, ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270020 his bad leg, ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270025 his ear ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270034 the engraving of his wife in his leg ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270032 and his entire length ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270031

We took this picture towards Saqqara ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270029 and this in the outer yard ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270030 and these of the alabaster pyramid ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270035 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270036

Our last stop in Egypt was at Khan al Khalili, the bazaar (souk) where these gentlemen ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270037 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270038 sold us some elegant T shirts and offered not enough camels for my wife or children.

This man seemed to characterize our final warm feeling ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270040 as Suzanne left her last shopping excursion ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270041 and this guy said goodbye ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270039

At the airport, we took the obligatory phone booth pictures ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270042 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270043 where we were accused to taking pictures for phone and even one of a mail box ../../../Sabbat/Pics/04.27.00Cairo//P4270044