Egypt

Our first look at Lake Nasser from the High Dam

Power lines stem from the new dam in every direction

Philae Temple

Nubian house

Detailed hieroglyphs in Philae

Philae Temple

Managing the cataracts on the Nile

Moment captured

View from our West Bank abode

Taking a boat to Philae Temple located on an island

Philae Temple

Hieroglyphics

Inside the temple

Inside Philae

Inside a Noble's burial chamber

Our guide in contemplation

Entering a burial tomb

Baskets of bones thousands of years old

Lighting the chamber

Bats abound in the inner chambers

Relief carvings tell the stroy

Amazing thousands year old paint!

Outside one of the Noble's tombs

Carved columns support the tomb chambers today

Painted Nubian home

Two kinds of typical Aswan-style transportation

Minaret of Bab Zuweila Gate in Old Cairo

Al-Azhar Mosque

Roman wall of Babylon in Coptic Cairo

Delivering the daily bread

Lovely exterior doors of the Hanging Church in Coptic Cairo

The Coptic Museum with the Hanging Church in the background

Hidden mosque in Old Cairo

Bab Zuweila Gate in Old Cairo

Overlooking Cairo from the Bab Zuweila minarets

Cairo

Hat seller in front of The Great Pyramid at Giza

The Great Pyramid at Giza

Tammy and Aaron in the requisite pose in Giza

Giza from above

Excavated village in Giza

Al-Azhar Mosque

Students studying in the Ibn Tulun Mosque

Qalawun Mosque details

Literacy everywhere we go!

Typical Cairo street chaos

Traditional applique' quilting done by a master

Common shutters that caught my eye

Tomb wall in Memphis

Sphinx of Memphis

Funerary complex of Djoser

Escaping from the heat at the Funerary complex of Djoser

Step Pyramid of Djoser

Step Pyramid of Djoser guarded by cobras

Common form of transportation in Giza

Colossus of Ramses II in Memphis Museum

Village on the West Bank

Reflections in the Nile

Dawn glide

West Bank from above

Fields from above

Dawn on the Nile

West Bank of the Nile from the air

Shadows inside the balloon

Landing in a farmer's field

Out of commission Nile cruise ships