Yeah that was Sameh (our egyptologist's) favorite saying. Ok sorry for all the fanfare about the blog and then the dry spell but it was a challenge to find internet for the appropriate amount of time..Let me tell you about the first day of our TOUR.
Our hotel was unbelievable (www.oberoimenahouse.com) The pace of day one was relentless - we woke up at 7A left the hotel by 745a so that we could be one of the first tour groups at the pyramids of Giza. We were the first! We went into the 2nd pyramid and crawled into the Phaoroh's tomb, it was claustrophobic and hot but exciting. Our tour group consisted of the 7 of us ( me, my mom, andrea federman, amsie soira, CJ pyles, Rapheal souza and Kathrine Wright) we became known as the Mafia :) and 26 other folks the oldest couple being 77 and 80 respectively. So the crawling factor was quite the experience. Every place we visited on the tour Sameh would bring us together give us the history and answer any questions and then he would let us wonder on our own, it was great.
So vistied the Pyramids, went inside then walked around them, took photos, got onto Camels took photos, got back into the bus.
Drove to "pyramid lookout" - got out took photos, were acosted by local salesmen selling plastic camels and the like,got back in the bus. We then drove to the famous Sphinx. Wow. Took tons of photos that place was magnificent. We walked back to the bus and got to take a camel ride. Hmm I chose to let other people have that opportunity.
We then drove to Sakkara and saw the pyramid of "Zosser (www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/egypt/saqqara/zoser/zoser.html)
by now it was 10am and the heat was strong
Then we drove to Memphis http://touregypt.net/memphis.htm saw a smaller version of the Sphinx in alabaster and tremendous statues.
Then we headed to a carpet store were CHILDREN were weaving all types of carpets.
We had the "opportunity" to purchase the carpets and look around. Of course the one I liked was 4000.00 us :) Thanks mom and dad for the excellent taste in quality :)
< From there we went to lunch. A meal served with the tasty egyptian beer "Stella" or pepsi (sorry no coke) or some bottled water provided by Nestle ( who knew).
After lunch we headed into town to visit the Cairo museum. All I can say is that this musuem had the most pieces of artifacts I have ever seen and probably 75% of them were not covered so you could touch them ( ven though you were not supposed to) the museum was overwhelming and FULL. We got to see all of Tutankamans spoils from his tomb - incidentally he tomb was one of the smallest ones in all of Egypt.
We spent 3 hours there, saw the rosetta stone (really cool). After that we hopped back in to the bus and headed home. It was a full day and a lot to see but very exciting
SOOOOOOO after saying all of that you are probably asking yourself " great but where are all of the photos?" Would you be surprised if I told you I deleted them all by accident? Yup. It was a sad day. The photos provided for this day and tomorrow are compliments of Andrea Federman because she is much more careful with her camera! I will fill you in on day 2 tomorrow.
good night
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