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July 7 drive to gouna on red sea
Gouna and many towns under construction like it…. Are rising up ex nihilo
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July 6. Around town and the club
Evening at the club
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Granite sculpture
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Hatshepsut memorial Luxor 3d
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Egyptian antiquity in 3d
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A sarcophagus in 3d
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July 3. Hang out at the sports club, then sail on the Nile and dinner on Zamalek
The sports club: Gezira Sports Club is huge, a relic of colonial days. Started in the 1880s as a British officers club, it is 150 acres dead in the center of Cairo. Squash, tennis, many pools for eg diving and water polo, several golf courses, basketball, running tracks, workout rooms, boxing, equestrian, and of course…
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Yes we saw the pyramids. Saw papyrus shop, more of the city, and the Egyptian museum. July 2
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June 30 back to Zamalek. Some observations.
This island in the middle of the Nile in the middle of Cairo is one of the more cosmopolitan areas. Total mix of rich and poor old and new sparkly/modern and decayed and covered in a dust that evokes 40s Peter Lorre movies. Many elegant art deco buildings turned monochrome by the dust, and the…
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Climbed Mount Sinai and the walled city/monestary St Catherine (AD 565)
Long long drive from the hotel, then we had an utterly relentless guide. The whole climb was about 3 miles, from 5000 feet to 7500 feet altitude at peak, ending in 750 stairs. It was a bit arduous for me but punctuated with a humorous number of snack huts with warm soda, melted chocolate bars,…
Engels in Egypt and Israel 