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Destinations:
| Cairo |
| Great Pyramids |
| Saqqara Pyramids |
| Abu Simbel |
| Aswan |
| Nile River |
| Edfu |
| Luxor |
| Valley Queens-Kings |
The Egypt-Jordan trip was a fun packed 15-day vacation. We arrived in Cairo 10 hours after departing JFK airport in New York City.
The Egyptian cities we visited were:
Cairo, Abu Simbel, Aswan, Kom Ombo, Edfu, and Luxor.
The picture menu is on the left to
show some of the sights we saw at each stop in
our trip.
Our small
group (16 people) was driven in an air-conditioned bus to most sites.
We did have a camel ride to a monastery, boat ride to Philae
Island, horse cart to a temple, traditional
felucca boat to botanical
gardens, and an evening meal on the Nile River aboard a small sail boat
watching the Cairo skyline.
Plus, we traveled on a Nile River boat for two days.
In the limited free time that was available, we ventured out in a
taxicab to witness the Cairo traffic up close to visit the Coptic Museum.
We had
first-class accommodations throughout our trip.
The night before our departure home, our group stayed on the top
floor of the Marriott Hotel in anticipation of Hillary and Chelsea
Clinton’s arrival the next day.
We were told that only Americans were allowed on that floor for
security reasons.
When we
finally arrived back at the Cairo airport (from Jordan) to return home, there was a delay
of about three hours.
The
Cairo airport only has plastic seats and no carpeting on the floors.
Our group had to wait for a 3 a.m. take-off time.
This put everyone on edge since most had connecting flights from
JFK.
Thank goodness Kirsten
and John would take that same flight to LAX.
But because of the delay they too missed their fight home to
Tucson.
But they caught the
next flight and arrived home safely.
The cause of the delay was the first night of the (Belgrade) Yugoslavia
bombing (Kosovo War) – the original flight plan was to fly north along the eastern
Italian coast.