Ancient Egypt and the Nile River - October 2006 Photo Gallery by Brian H at pbase.com

Ancient Egypt and the Nile River - October 2006

October 2006 finds us on an impromptu trip to Egypt. We flew via JFK to Cairo where we spent about a week touring the cultural sites in and around this capital city. Then it was on to Luxor where we boarded a Nile river boat for another week of cruising and visiting the ancient sites along the longest river in the world. We ended our cruise in Aswan where we visited the Aswan High Dam and learned about the Nubian culture of the Upper Nile Valley. After that, back to Cairo and then a very long and painful flight home.

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Good morning Cairo!	Pyramids of Giza	Amongst the pyramid's stone blocks	Part way up
A friend for life	An indication of size	Ancient boat discovered at the pyramids	Cedar boat
A couple camel jockeys	The Sphinx of Giza	The pyramids and Sphinx	Nancy on a camel
Brian's camel ride	Step Pyramid of Sakkara	Cairo train station	New library of Alexandira
Sunset over the Mediterranian Sea	Qait Bay Fort, Alexandria	Roman tower at Qasr el-Shama	Spiritual Cairo tour
Arches and stairways	Entrance to El Muallaga - The Hanging Church	Mosque of Muhammad 'Ali	Corridor at the mosque
Panoramic view of Cairo	The City of the dead	Corridor in a small mosque	On a minaret
Touring the Cairo market	Cotton seller in his stall	Brass lanterns	Cooking basket maker
Cairo lumber yard	Tin merchant	Pita bread on a bicycle	Date vendor
Autobody shop	Luxor Temple	Luxor Temple	Ramesses II
Wall art and heiroglyphs	Obelisk at Luxor Temple	Valley of the Kings	Valley of the Queens
Alabaster factory	Alabaster show room	Cruising the Nile	Fishermen search the islands for food
Temple of Hathor, Denera	Wall art and heiroglyphs	Ceiling art	Heiroglyphs detail
Wall art - falcon	Horus son of Osaris	Sunset on the Nile	Our Program Director and Egyptologist, Mohammed
Karnak Temple	Obelisk at Karnak Temple	God of Fertility - bronze	Avenue of the Sphinxes
Temple of Horus, Edfu	Wall art and heiroglyphs in Temple of Horus	Guardian falcon at the temple gates	Temple of Kom Ombo at night
Temple of Philae	Temple of Philae	Feluccas on the Nile	Scene from our felucca

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