Couples and families stroll the corniche day and night. It's a beautiful spot if you can ignore the honking, exhaust filled traffic.
Here we all are outside the Alexandria library, in front of a statue of Alexander the Great, which is in front of the planetarium. Alexandria is named for Alexander,, who passed through here a while back on his way looking for an oracle.
Inside the Alexandria library. It was recreated recently close to where the famous ancient one was. It doesn't have the same exceptional quantity of books as the old one, but it is quite beautiful.
Typical bread makers, but they are stuffing the dough with a spicy ground meat mixture.
Seeing the sites in Alexandria - Roman ruins are right in the center of town.
From Alexandria we drove straight to the pyramids.
Can you see Karen? She's a mummy!
Zach is bargaining for our camel rides.
There are nine pyramids in total. There are three in the foreground, then the three big ones, and then three tiny one on the right side of the farthest one. It wasn't the clearest day so you can't see them all in this shot.
Islamic Cairo = lots of mosques
This is Al Azhar park, one of our favorite spots in Cairo. You can see the citadel up on the hill, looking especially Star Wars-inspiring from this angle.
This is the Khan al-Khalili - your one stop shopping for Egyptian nick-nacks that might be made in China - hard to tell.
Buying ice cream - you have to work for it!
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