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I think that the flight from Istanbul was shorter than the drive from the airport to my hotel in Giza.  But the drive proved to be a lot of fun.  My driver pointed out several of the sites we drove past.  I had my camera out, doing what I like to call “guerrilla photography” or a “drive-by shooting”.   The thing with doing this style of photography is you might get some crappy photos but a few might come out wonderfully.  I got a few good ones of a severa...

When i and my friend - Ana - had decided to visit Egypt we didn't know that Ehab (Maher) would accompany us during our whole trip but i don't know what we would have done there without him...This trip wasn't just a dream coming true but also the beginning of an amazing and a hopefully everlasting friendship. Shukran Ehab for these unforgetable 9 days - you're an incredibly nice person! God bless Travbuddy!!!!! :-))))

We wore up early this morning, and arranged a cab to take us to the pyramids in Giza and Saqqarah.  It was foggy when we woke up, but we were surprised to hear that the pyramids were only about 15 minutes from our hostel.  As we got close, our driver said pointed to the left and mentioned that on non-foggy days, you could see the pyramids from our location.  As soon as he got done talking, the outline of the Great Pyramid became visible through the fog.  Although only for ...

I would not be able to forgive myself to visit Cairo and not visit the Pyramids of Giza, the only of the original 7 wonders of the world still standing. As my first business meeting was to start just after midday, I had only the morning to visit the pyramids so just after 6 o’clock in the morning I took a cab to the suburb of Giza. I had to get past a number of people (receptionists, doormen, luggage carriers, hotel limo drivers etcetra) all trying to convince me that the pyramids were cl...

For as long as I can remember I wanted to go to Egypt. When I thought of Egypt it was always the same place - the pyramids in Giza. There are probably no other building in the world more famous and more well known than the great Cheops pyramid the last of the original seven wonders of the world. No other building in the world got a more mysterious aura around it - with people today more than four thousands years after it was build wondering how did they do it.   I always im...

Our pyramid adventure began with taxi from our hotel on Saturday morning.  The driver was supposed to drop us off at the Sphinx, however, he decided to make a detour to his friends who offer tours by horse, camel and Giza Cadillac (horse-and-buggy).  Normally when this happens we just say no, however, the sun was quite something and I had no sunscreen and they were offering a tour guide so we splurged & toured in style by Giza Cadillac.  There are tourism police all over...

WE got a two day delay on our tour, we were suppose to arrive on a Saturday but because of the storm that we got to face in San Francisco we ended up  arriving on a Sunday evening...we were on the runway for six hours where i watched two movies, and after running out of food, the plane needs to go back to the gate for refills. So we have to stay overnight in New Jersey to catch our plane the next day. I was hoping that everything would be just fine after all the mishap in San Franci...

Today we planned to visit the Pyramids, yeeeeaaah. One of the ancient Seven World Wonders and the only one that was preserved until today. Something we just couldn’t miss.   After the breakfast we went back to our room and packed all our stuff, that night we were supposed to take a train to Aswan in the south. In the lift on the way down we met a hotel employee who asked us about our plans for that day. After we told him that we pretended to visit Gizeh first and then leave Cairo in...

There aren't words adequate enough to describe the Giza pyramids.  Spectacular, breath-taking, majestic, architectural feat, spiritual, powerful - all fall short.  The Giza plateau is a place that everyone should visit in their lifetime.  To stand before these massive structures, one sees how the Pharaohs who built them achieved immortality.  Climbing around inside the Great Pyramid I felt as though I was transported back hundreds of years.  Back to the days of the ea...

My first experience out of the states! And my favorite little friend Dina.

Giza... Actually it is a part of Cair, the capital city.Yes, I saw pyramids, I went into and on them, I saw also Sfinx, which is much more smaller than everybody thinks. But now, I didin't ride on a cammel next to the pyramids. I did it in Dahab:)

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now Cairo, Egypt in Africa, and is the only remaining member of the Seven Wonders of the World. It is believed to have been built as a tomb for Fourth dynasty Egyptian pharaoh Khufu (hellenized as Χεωψ, Cheops) and constructed over a 20 year period concluding around 2560 BC. It is sometimes called Khufu's Pyramid or the Pyramid of Khufu.Contents

My Second trip to Egypt (have already done a cruise from Luxor to Aswan) to see the last of the ancient 7 wonders.

After the diving trip, we had another day in Sharm el-Sheikh that we spend relaxing on the beach, snorkelling and shopping. After all, diving is quite exhausting. Pretty much all of the next day was spent in the bus to Cairo, that included the tunnel under the Suez Canal. In Cairo we had no problem finding a centrally located, affordable hostel. In the morning of our first full day in Cairo we visited the pyramids of Giza. Being the only remaining ancient world wonder, their size and constru...

These are some of the photos from the next leg of my world tour. This time we are suppose to visiting India, Dubai, and Istanbul (Turkey).