Images in order: Bob Touching the Great Pyramid, Fay at the entry to the Great Pyramid (we didn’t venturer in!), Us on a camel in front of the Pyramids, the Sphinx, Crazy Cairo traffic (apparently the garbage collectors are Coptic Christians).
Today we visited the Pyramids, the Sphinx and the Egyptian Museum.
Surprises in the Museum today in the collection of items from Tutankhamun’s 3,300 year old tomb were:
• Boomerangs
• A folding umbrella structure
• A folding bed
• A folding chair (all three complete with hinges) and
• A bed with a rattan weave cane(?) base perfectly in tact and without restoration.
We were not alone – this is peak tourist season but at least we had explanations of a lot of what we saw today.
I’ll let the photos speak for themselves.
Day 20 – 21st February 2010
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