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Coptic Cairo, Egypt The Hanging Church gets its name from its location on top of the southern tower gate of the old Babylon fortress (in Coptic Cairo) with its nave suspended above the passage. It was probably built around 690. |
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Islamic Cairo We started our day with the Mosque of Ibn Tulun. |
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Cairo, Egypt Cairo was hard to love. The pyramids are fatastic, the museum was amazing, but the hassle was terrible. |
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Great Pyramid, Sphinx, Cairo, Egypt We visited the Pyramids of Giza outside of Cairo. |
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Sakkara (Saqqara) and the Dashur Pyramids, close to Cairo, Egypt Our first full day in Cairo, we had arranged a guided day trip to Sakkara (Saqqara), the Dashur Pyramids, and Memphis. This photo is taken outside the entrance hall to Zozer's Step Pyramid. |
The following day we set out in the morning to explore Islamic Cairo. We started out at the Mosque of Ibn Tulun. This Mosque is very photogenic, although different from others we’d seen. Most of the Mosque was outside – or at least most of the Mosque that we saw. It’s a very photogenic ... (read more →)
We wandered around looking for a new hotel having left the Berlin Hotel when they switched us to a new room without asking while we were out during the day. When we found the Lotus Hotel, a member of the ‘hotel staff’ followed us up to the reception.
We have learned that when ... (read more →)
The hotel we had tried to book in advance, the Berlin Hotel , refused to give us a reservation unless they personally picked us up at the airport to guarantee we would keep our reservation, and also to avoid taxi drivers demanding a ‘finders fee’ for bringing us to their hotel. We didn’t want to ... (read more →)
We visited Egypt over Christmas 2004. Our vacation started in Cairo, took us to St Catherine’s and Mount Sinai, over to Sharm-el-Sheikh for some snorkeling, then on to Luxor where we had arranged a 4 night Nile River cruise down to Aswan. From there, we took a daytrip out to Abu Simbel. We then ... (read more →)
During the day, we had visited the Egyptian Museum. It’s big. Really big. The building itself is pretty plain, and filled to bursting with ancient artifacts. The English labeling is pretty scarce, so make sure you have a good guidebook.
In order to get into the museum, it is first necessary ... (read more →)
Arriving in Cairo for our last few days, we headed out of the train station towards the taxi rank for the inevitable fight with the taxi drivers. They wanted to charge us quadruple the local rate to drive us to our hotel. When we objected and offered the local rate, it was accepted, and as ... (read more →)
