Heights of Cairo
Cairo, Egypt “Minarets of Cairo“Click here to share or send a greeting with this image. Touring Egypt 9: This time, let’s talk altitude. Getting high-up to see the fabulous panorama of old, Islamic Cairo. Long before I ever visited Egypt for the first time, I saw illustrations and read in travel books about how the […]
Hiding …
The Red Sea, Tiran, Egypt Click here to share or send a greeting with this image. Touring Egypt 8: The first time I visited Egypt many years ago, I happened to see a longnose hawkfish and completely blew the picture. These fish are very small and retiring. They generally hide amongst corals in places where […]
Sound and Light
Giza, Egypt “All in“Click here to share or send a greeting with this image. Touring Egypt 7: Here’s another thing to do if you are in Cairo at night. Every visitor should take the opportunity to visit Giza to see the famous sound and light show at least once. The booming presentation tells the story […]
Coming Through!
The Red Sea, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Click here to share or send a greeting with this image. Touring Egypt 6: Whoa! What the heck was that!?!? I and my ubiquitous camera are cruising with my group at about 60 feet on a boat dive* at Woodhouse Reef in the Straits of Tiran (the Red Sea). […]
Old-Fashioned Religion
Cairo, Egypt “Old-Fashioned Religion“Click here to share or send a greeting with this image. Touring Egypt (5): There are many, many things a tourist should do in and around Cairo at night. We have all heard of the nightly sound-and-light show at the pyramids in nearby Giza, shopping and tea in the Khan el-Khalili, and […]
