Blair's Trip Pics - Egypt Mega Thread!!

[Canadian Turbo]

Well Sarah and I spent a week in Egypt and we crammed a lot of stuff into that week along with surviving the 45-50 degree weather.

Anyway here are some highlights so I hope you enjoy them!!

First up the city of Cairo, a very very crazy place with nearly 20 million people and nearly the worst pollution of anywhere on the earth.





















City of the Dead; where people live amongst old graves and tombs.





Garbage City; where people live by using the garbage from the city, nearly 30,000 live here.



Cairo Museum; Amazing place so much stuff just everywhere but no pictures allowed but King Tutankhamen's stuff is mind boggling.





Some of the old Mosques around the city.

[Canadian Turbo]

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Now of course one of the biggest draws in Cairo are the great pyramids and sphinx in Giza, truely an amazing site and we took a fun camel ride around the area.

[Gumby]

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Cool pics Blair!!! But i didn't see any smarts in the city pics

[Canadian Turbo]

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Next we took a couple days and went south to Luxor (where it was stupidly hot) and saw some of the amazing places there.

First we went to the Valley of the Kings and went in a few tombs but no pictures were allowed inside, but the hieroglyphics were beautiful and still very colourful after 4,000 years.



Next was the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut



















We also made stops at the Colossi of Memnon and the Valley of the Queens, Valley of the Artisans and Valley of the Nobles to see more tombs.





Next was the Temple of Karnak an extremely impressive site with 134 columns!!!

[Canadian Turbo]

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The next major site was Luxor Temple another large site and you can see our hotel on the right side too.



















After returning to Cairo we spent our final night sailing on the Nile in a Faluca (Egyptian Sailboat).









Hope you enjoyed the pics!!

[Canadian Turbo]

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Cool pics Blair!!! But i didn't see any smarts in the city pics

Never actually saw a Smart in Cairo, not too many nice cars there as regular road rules do not apply, but I did see this one at Athens Airport

[Smarty39]

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Wow Blair, looks like an awesome trip! I officially hate you now....I've always wanted to go to Egypt

[R_Ethug]

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yea that looks insane!! the old stuff is amazing.. the city looks pretty scary tho

[Stonewall]

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I think ancient egypt has to be one of the most boggling times in human history. Imagine what it would take to do some of that work.

[People's Car]

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Those are some great shots....glad you enjoyed yourself there.

[kuhli]

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This photo is spectacular...nice work and thanks for posting that up...

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...o/70b5348a.jpg

[Billip]

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Amazing stuff! I only hope I can do this one day.

[RobG]

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Looks like an interesting place to go, it's on my list....

[Cordialtea]

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Awesome pictures.

[Derick]

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Holy balls! 20mill people and 45 degree heat! And here I thought LA was hot and congested. Great photos Blair, looks like it was amazing trip