One Way Ticket

We began a different kind of travel once we arrived in Cairo. We stepped off the plane and into a branch of the worldwide tourist industry. Tourism here in Egypt is only economically exceeded with revenue that comes from the Suez Canal. Our involvement with this tourist industry has been through a small personal company. Every part of our itinerary has been provided seamlessly. The service and each hotel that we have stayed at here in Egypt has been elegant and way beyond what we are accustomed to. We purchased a personalized tour. Through Mohamad’s suggestions of what to see and our insistence upon a slower paced tour with built in downtime the experience has exceeded expectations. The time here in Egypt has been well spent in terms of experiencing on the ground what the ancient people had been able to accomplish. It has been so interesting and tiring that we are doing this post on the evening before we leave Egypt for Kenya. We will post in the future, more pictures and descriptions of what we have seen here in Egypt after leaving Cairo. We may do something tomorrow afternoon after we catch our breath.

Neither Louise nor I had a desire to go to see the pyramids or the sphinx, but Mohamad insisted. We are now so glad that we actually were there. To stand next to a couple million stones, each weighing tons, and to understand that the pyramid was constructed within 20 years, and be given the information that if you did the mathematics, a block would have been put in place every two minutes for 20 years, you start to get the sense of the size of the project, the immensity of the human effort involved and it just seems incredible.

The next morning we would fly to Luxor where we would meet Hesham who would be our guide for the next 6 days.