Sacred Lake
Every temple had a sacred lake within the temple precinct, fed from the Nile. This one is the only place greenery grows in the temple
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Islamic Cairo
Cairo is the city of a thousand minarets, and a look across the skyline of the city (when you can see farther than a few blocks!) is testimony to the claim.
Read MoreTombs
Tombs Tombs for Egyptian Pharaohs have changed through the history of Egypt. Early kings were buried in simple mastaba tombs: bench-like mudbrick structures with a simple burial chamber and storage chambers. The mastaba tomb slowly morphed into a larger, more impressive monuments: the pyramids. At first, stepped pyramids (Djoser and Semerkhet), which looked like a […]
Read MoreCameras and Photography
On our last trip, we had a very nice Minolta 35mm camera and a fabulous Tamron 28-200 lens. It solved our photo problems — one camera, one lens — and was perfect for the trip. But we took 1100 pictures in Scotland and it cost over a thousand dollars to get everything processed. We had […]
Read MoreDigital vs Film
What about Film? If you still have a film camera and don’t want to go digital, I have a couple of recommendations for dealing with photography in Egypt: Remember that I’m not an expert — just a casual travel photographer, so I’m open to all suggestions! What Speed? You will either need to have some […]
Read MorePhotos Home
More photos than you can shake stick at, or, Digital Rules! I always assume that this is the part of the site that people gravitate towards (or at least that’s what my bandwidth usage seems to imply!). For our last trip, we had a film camera, a nice Minolta. We took 1100 pictures in three […]
Read MoreHistoric Hotels
I love old buildings and old hotels — squeaky doors, sagging floors, the whole package. The options in Egypt are like stepping back into an Agatha Christie novel.
Read MoreGiza Sound and Light Show
A bit melodramatic, but worth the views of the giza plateau lit up with spotlights and lasers
Read MoreSaqqara
Most of the sites in Egypt are vast, covering square miles of barren ground marked only by a few wooden signs and vague shapes under the sand. Most of Saqqara is the same. Saqqara was the original necropolis for the early pharaohs, and is Egypt’s largest archeaological site. It was used until the 4th Dynasty […]
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