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back in Cairo Everyone has been asking me if things feel or look any different here in Cairo after the revolution. When I left, there were tanks in my neighborhood, a curfew, lots of gunfire, there was no internet, and Mubarak was still president. Now, Mubarak is gone, the police are back on the streets, the tanks have rolled out,...

from ancient to medieval in Cairo On Tuesday we started our day with a cab ride to Tahrir to see the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities. We spent a few hours enjoying the Tutahnkamun exhibit, Akhenaten collection, and other ancient art and artifacts of Egypt. We then took a taxi to the Citadel. The views of the city were stunning. We...

weddles in luxor This past week has been a whirlwind! After seeing some sights around Cairo with Ryan, my parents arrived and we left for Luxor. We arrived in Luxor around midday and decided to check out Luxor Temple in the afternoon sunlight. It was incredible. The city of Luxor creeps right up to the edges of these ancient sites,...

Mount Sinai Last weekend we went on a faculty trip to Mount Sinai. After a 9 hour bus ride through barren, empty, desert, along the eastern coast of Egypt and across the Sinai Peninsula, we made it to Dahab where the best thing about our hotel was the coral reef meters from our room. Another 2 hour bus ride through a forbidding...

Unfinished Obelisk Once we got to Aswan and after a crazy taxi experience that entailed some serious driver rivalry, keys stolen from the ignition, a chase involving a tire iron, and a group of tourists, ahem, us, quietly unloading our luggage and finding another cab... (yeah, I know, OH EGYPT!) Anyhow once we got to Aswan, we decided...

Priceless

Posted by Emily | Posted on 04-01-2010

Category : My Life in Cairo, Oh, Egypt

Meredith captured the best picture of the day from our trip to Giza and the Solar Barque Museum.

booties

I just think this is about the most ridiculous I have ever looked (although that is not an invitation to find me looking more ridiculous, thank you). Anyhow, they make you put on these special canvas booties over your shoes to enter the museum with the ancient solar boat. It was amazing to see a beautiful wooden boat that has survived for thousands of years buried in the sand, but these booties were a bit too much. Doesn’t my facial expression say it all?

Priceless.

Comments (1)

Ginger said on 04-01-2010
	So glad you are posting again!!!!!! True–these don’t look like “Emily Shoes”, but wasn’t it worth it to see the beautiful wooden boat? Are you going to share a photo or was it one of the things forbidden to photography? I guess we will have to come see for ourselves!

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