Cairo

Landed in Cairo at 9pm on Monday August 01. We were a little shnockered from 2 flights to get here. So we checked into the Fairmont Cairo and called it a night. The next morning we had an Egyptologist lined up to take us on an 8hr tour. We started off by going to the Giza Plateau to visit the the most famous pyramids in Egypt....it was pretty cool having your own personal tour guide. After the pyramids we went to visit the Sphinx...it is so much more impressive in person! Our next stop was about a 40 minute drive out of Cairo, Memphis, which was the first capital of Egypt. There we saw a 60 ton statue of the Pharaoh Ramses! Our final stop was at Saqqara, which is the site of the oldest pyramid in Egypt. By now it is about 38 degress outside (2pm) so we decided to call it a day and head back to the hotel and pack for our last leg of our trip to Kenya. All in all it was a very condensed tour of of some of the must see sites in Cairo with an incredible guide who has a degree in Egptology...flight out to Nairobi, Kenya at 10 PM tonight.

There seems to be some technical issues posting pictures through this blog and an iPad...so I have loaded the pictures on my FaceBook page.