{"id":31,"date":"2018-04-02T06:10:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T06:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wsteemers.com\/Africa\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2018-04-04T07:01:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T07:01:37","slug":"egypt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wsteemers.com\/Africa\/egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Egypt, the land of monuments…\u00a0 I have more pictures from Egypt than from any other country on the trip. However, I have spared you the dozens and dozens of pictures of monuments, and I have put only a few representative ones on this page.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Front of the Temple of Abu Simbel. This temple was moved a few hundred meters when the High Dam that created Lake Nasser was built. In my opinion one of the most impressive monuments in the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Obelisk at the Temple of Karnak (near Aswan); Entrance to the Temple of Luxor. Notice that the obelisk at the right of the entrance is missing: it is currently at the Place de la Concorde in Paris, courtesy of Napoleon Bonaparte.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Going down the Nile in a Felucca (Egyptian sailboat) – having lunch; Pat relaxing; and Pat working<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Valley of the Kings; Detail of a painting inside a grave<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ride a donkey; walk like an Egyptian…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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St. Anthony’s Monastery, the oldest monastery in the world; The skulls of hundreds of monks in St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai Desert<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pillows and blankets on the beach in Dahab, Sinai Desert<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Step pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara; Sandstorm near the Pyramid of Chefren at Giza<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Me, posing as a mummy in the sarcophagus inside the pyramid of Chefren<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mosques in Cairo<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This room (in a house\/museum in Cairo) features in James Bond: The Spy Who Loved Me<\/strong><\/p>\n

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My mother and me, having tea at a sidewalk cafe in Cairo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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