Author: tjiskavw

my favorite site in Alexandria - this is a wealthy family's tomb with almost 30 burial chambers built into rock deep underground. It was  discovered by a donkey when it…

the alley that leads to the seafood restaurant is lined with stands holding these large pans from which you select what fresh fish you'd like served to you inside.

this picture was taken from the vantage point of my guide's favorite view - he dissuaded me from a tour of castle you see in background as an expensive tourist…

Camel rides are available in the desert surrounding the great Pyramids...probably similar to the transportation taken hundreds - thousands of years ago.

I was the only one that had signed up for this tour of Alexandria on the date of the US holiday Thanksgiving. So with just the driver, the guide and…

I lucked out again when I was teamed with this great group of people to tour the pyramids in Cairo. As one of them explained- the people you meet while…

The largest of the pyramids is 482 feet high and considered not only an achievement of ancient engineering but modern day as well. It  was built as a tomb for…

This wise guide ( or is that guy?!) was a philosopher. A firm believer in the "one door closes, another opens" concept, he was grateful for loosing his high paying…

talk about your chuck wagon!! On the way into the restaurant, we stopped to watch two women making the bread in clay pots to wrap the grilled meat in. Our…

With the body of a lion and head of a human ( which resembles pharaoh Khafre ) this was guardian, protector and destroyer of enemies of RE- the sun god.…