Images from Egypt
We docked in Port Safaga, Egypt on the 13th of November. Since that is a military port, we were only allowed off the ship for an organized tour of Luxor. The view from the four-hour bus ride was like something out of the Bible--people riding on donkeys, palm trees, dirt roads, children, fields--it was really neat-looking to somebody like me, who had never seen a desert before. We took a ferry across the Nile with none other than Joan Kennedy. Her daughter Kara was a fellow shipmate. We went to the Valley of the Kings where I visited King Tut's tomb. We also went to the Valley of the Queens and saw the Two Collosis of Memnon. Some of these things are pictured below.We docked in Alexandria (near Cairo) on the 17th of November. Two friends and I headed straight for Cairo where we got a beautiful huge room for only $15/night--it even had a bidet! We went to Giza to see the night pyramid show. Seeing the pyramids at night was spectacular, but--like any tourist attraction-- the show was cheesy. We arranged for a cab driver to pick us up at the hotel and bring us back to the pyramids for sunrise the next day. It was beautiful. We climbed the pyramids and toured inside tunnels and tombs. (We learned days later that one of our shipmates--Susan Urban--had fallen to her death. She and a number of other students had camped out on top of one of the pyramids. She fell climbing down the next morning. We held a memorial service for her on the ship. It was a sad ending to our visit in Egypt.)
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 | One of the great pyramids at Giza. |
 | A man sitting in the desert at the Valley of the Kings. |
 | Valley of the Queens. |
 | Obelisks at Luxor. |
< | Two Collosis of Memnon--these things were huge A car would barely come up to the height of the bottom square. |
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