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Egypt Home Page
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| Itinerary | |
| Day1 |
Fly from Manchester to London Heathrow to Cairo. Overnight in Cairo Marriott |
| Day2 |
Museum of Antiquities (Tutankhamen Exhibition), Memphis to see the Alabaster Sphinx and Statue of Rameses II, Sakkara to see the Stepped Pyramid. After lunch the Pyramids, Sphinx and a Camel Ride |
| Day3 |
Fly from Cairo to Abu Simbel (via Aswan), back to Aswan for our Nile Cruise. Felucca ride during the afternoon |
| Day4 |
Visit the Aswan High Dam, the Temple of Philae and the Unfinished Obelisk. After lunch we sail to Kom Ombo and visit the Temple of Sobek and Haroris. |
| Day5 |
Visit Temple of Horus in Edfu, sail to Esna and after lunch visit the Temple there. Sail downstream to Luxor |
| Day6 |
Visit to the West Bank. Tombs in the Valley of the Kings and Queens, Queen Hapshetsut's Temple at Deir El-Bahari and The Colossi of Mnemnon. After lunch visit the Temples at Karnak, followed in early afternoon and evening by the Temples at Luxor. FINALLY, return to Luxor for the Sound and Light Show! |
| Day7 |
Fly from Luxor to Cairo.Trips to the Coptic Museum and Khan El Khalili Bazaar. Overnight in the Cairo Marriott. |
| Day8 |
The journey home - Cairo to Heathrow to Manchester
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| The Diary | |
Normally I don't keep a holiday diary. However, for this trip, like the Canada one, I decided to keep a set of notes to help me remember the events of each day. On my return I typed them up into a Scrap Book together with all the memorabilia - tickets, brochures, postcards and photographs. These, and the accompanying photograph albums were well received. They were natural candidates for publishing on the web, when I decided to teach myself HTML, Javascript etc. Each web page is a diary day, using the original words (but laid out for browsing) and may contain links to photographs that will pop up in the middle of the screen like so. I have tried to provide a simple navigation system - only you can tell if it works. (The Camels are buttons for 'Previous' and 'Next' - but you knew that didn't you?)
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| The Photo Gallery | |
Despite the reader being able to pop up relevant images from within the Diary, I have provided a Photo Gallery so that (perish the thought) those who don't want to read the Diary, can look at thumbnail images and click on any that interest them
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| The Factoids | |
Didn't really know what else to call them. Some knowledge I have gleaned on the trip about things like tipping and the cost of the merchandise you are likely to be sold, together with mileages, a table of the ungodly hours we had to get up at etc. etc.
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| The Links Page | |
Simply links to sites I found useful and/or entertaining both before, whilst I was researching the impending trip and after, when I was looking up additional information.
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| Contacting me | |
Should you have comments or suggestions about the layout or content, feel free to
contact me
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