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“Travel through Egypt, July 2011”
From Egypt, posted by Arlo Midgett on 7/22/2011 (193 items)
- Outside the Egyptian Museum
- Egyptian Museum We were both very much disappointed with the treatment of the artifac…
- Plus, we couldn’t even pay to take my camera inside — even after pointing out that i…
- Holy smokes Cairo has a lot of satellite dishes. Anyone want to give a count on just…
- Our first view of the Giza Pyramids
- That strip of green in the middle of a country-sized desert? The Nile.
- The Bent Pyramid at Dahshur
- The Bent Pyramid and the Red Pyramid at Dahshur
- The Red pyramid at Dahshur You can also the a refinery near the bottom
- The pyramid of Saqqara with scaffolding visible even from the plane
- Adjacent to the Egyptian Museum was a burned out husk of a building. When we asked, …
- McDonald’s! We ate there 3 days in a row (Oksana’s idea, swear!)
- A view of one of the Giza pyramids
- PEOPLE OF AMERICA YOU ARE BEING RIPPED OFF FOR YOUR FRUIT LEATHER ALL THIS COST ONLY …
- Seating for the Light & Sound Show
- This was pretty much what the whole Giza park was like. Few tourists, few camels and…
- Sphinx! Okay, so did Napoleon really use the nose for target practice? Or is that an…
- Smoochies!
- The whole Sphinx
- "Hello! Take my photo!" "No! Get out of my way! I won’t pay you bak…
- We never went into the tombs in this park…
- Got a photo without them asking for money. Woot!
- This shows a sense of the pyramid’s scale. Look at the people against the base!
- Self portrait at the base of the largest pyramid — no sense of scale here, though.
- Looking straight up from the base
- Entrances into the pyramid
- Watched Transformers 2 again after visiting the park. HUGE CONTINUITY ERRORS, PEOPLE…
- Who has at least one thumb and is finally seeing Eqypt’s treasures? DIS GUY!
- Still has the original limestone cladding on the top. Cool to imagine what it must h…
- Closer view of the top
- The park wasn’t really so empty; it was hard to get shots like this.
- Tourist Police
- Limestone cladding from the base
- Even Egyptians seek the shade.
- Oksana and a pyramid
- Obligatory photo. Probably should have done it from farther away…
- Angles
- Lucky to get this shot without any tourists in it
- More limestone
- Nothing but rows and rows of cut rock
- You can see how close the city has encroached on the pyramids (that’s the back of the…
- I HATE YOU CAMEL JOCKEYS THANK YOU FOR RUINING OUR VISIT!
- Sphinx
- Oksana posing for a photo on the way out
- Cheese!
- Stupid gate.
- Chug chug chug
- First view of the pyramid of Saqqara
- This museum at Saquarra, while very small, was actually quite good. Amazing artifact…
- Is he sticking his tongue out at us?
- Worst self-portrait ever!
- Self portrait at Saqqara
- Self portrait at the Bent Pyramid (see how it bows outward? They had the time to EXP…
- Reconstructed tomb at Saqqara
- Camels and the pyramid at Saqqara
- Scaffolding
- All that scaffolding, so few (zero) workers…
- Looking out of one of the very small restored rooms…
- A mix of original and restored blocks
- Another wall being restored Oksana and I were of the opinion that the restoration wor…
- The Tomb of Hustlers and Touts in Saqqara
- About to climb the Red Pyramid in Dahshur
- Climbing the Red Pyramid
- Huh. Just realized we don’t have any photos from inside the Red Pyramid (just video.)…
- Closeup on the Bent Pyramid of Dahshur
- The Bent Pyramid of Dahshur We did not stray far from the car for fear of being hassl…
- Love the shadow, Cairo.
- More photos of the burned out government building
- Even the cars were torched
- For people that grew up along the Mississippi or other great rivers, it’s probably no…
- Our train compartment
- I probably shouldn’t have crawled up there…
- Mmmm… Borios!
- Yay! Our hotel has a bathtub!
- Lots of serious military checkpoints around the High Dam on the Nile
- The High Dam. That there is a representation of a lotus flower and the, um, Russian….
- Lake Nassir, created by the dam across the Nile, stretched 500kms back into Sudan!
- See all those boats, ready to ferry tourists to the temple on the island? Want to gu…
- Philae Temple
- The main courtyard. Note the LACK of tourists! Also, you can see the waterline from w…
- Posing with the carvings
- Columns
- Faces in the columns
- Our guide and the only other two tourists in our group
- If you look close, you can see that the carvings of the gods have been chiseled over….
- Looking up at the carvings
- More columns, light play
- Reminds me of Stargate (The Movie)
- Standing behind the altar
- Hallways and altar
- Original carvings
- The detail was incredible
- Just… wow
- Some damage is still visible
- You can sort of see the grainy texture of the rock
- See how the faces have been damaged? Christians did that. False idols, I guess.
- Detail!
- Lots of intentional damage here
- Light
- Latin graffiti
- Much of this temple was desecrated by Christians, long ago. After first that saddene…
- An outer temple along the lake
- Deep carving
- Huge walls
- Juncture
- Oksana for scale
- The bulk of the temple
- My "I been there" shot
- Walking back up the marina ramp
- Dinner for four! All this cost about $14.
- Our first view
- The Great Temple Look at the scale here. Those suckers are 20m tall!
- We were lucky enough to be one of the first people to make it to the statues — got s…
- Giant statues
- The toppled one
- Slaves
- Damaged carvings
- Looking up
- Carvings
- Hidden in shadow
- Coming out of the temple
- HOT
- The Temple of Hathor and Nefertari
- And they call this one "The Small Temple!"
- Oksana by the base
- Egyptian upskirt!
- Queen Nefertari
- Both temples
- I been there!
- The Nile in Aswan, at night
- Chillaxin’ in our Nile riverboat room
- The temple is right next to the dock
- Vendors here? I don’t mind at all. It’s inside the temples where they annoy me so.
- Kom Ombo Temple
- Shade
- Columns with original paint
- Original freakin’ paint!
- Columns
- Columns and shadows
- Doorway
- Altar
- From behind the altar
- The stories that were preserved because of these temples… amazing.
- Me. At the temple.
- Cool dress
- I saw this guy fight Batman in a comic book once.
- Awww…
- Okay, so I was writing this as my witty caption: "And lo, Horus, god of ___, cr…
- Just some more awesome pictures of awesome carvings
- Some amazing carvings at this site
- Desktop wallpaper
- Chin beard
- Another wallpaper
- Huge wall, still standing
- The Egyptian Tourism Police and the tourists they serve and protect. And fleece.
- Oksana managed to snap one without any tourists
- Closeup
- Depth of field
- Angle
- Another angle
- Returning to our riverboat
- Who has two thumbs and wants to show you how hot it was outside? Dis guy!
- Another riverboat at sunset
- I’ll bet the people cleaning our room on this 5-star cruise just shook their heads at…
- Yep. Oksana washing clothes on a 5-star cruise!
- Sunset over the Nile and the Sahara beyond
- On sun deck after sun down
- This was in our room when we came back from dinner
- Edfu Temple
- Oh, come on. Like you wouldn’t have at least one photo like this!
- I’ve saw that move in an old Street Fighter game
- From inside the courtyard
- Something tells me that this wasn’t in the original blueprints
- We have to paint our houses every fives years or so… this has been around for a few…
- Falcon statue
- Pouting falcon is pouting
- From inside the courtyard
- Path to the center
- I remember really liking the lighting in this temple
- Light play
- Up and out
- Sunlight streaming in
- Would love to timelapse the sun’s movement in this room…
- No idea why the light is shining in such different directions…
- All the way to the ceiling
- Photographer
- Throw me the idol and I’ll throw you the whip!
- I caught the flash!
- D’oh!
- Looks like a blurry photograph from this angle, but that’s the way it’s carved
- Cats. In Egypt. Cliché, I know.
- Meow
- Schwing!
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