ALRI Travel Club and ALRI History 303, Ancient Egypt
A selection of photos from the trip, taken by Margaret Dean
New York JFK pre-departure
Giza, Egypt -- Mena House Hotel
Mena House -- our guide, Tark Fawzi, in checked shirt
Karnak
Karnak -- Ram-headed sphinxes
Karnak, inside the courtyard of Ramesses II
Karnak, Hypostyle hall of Setti I and Ramesses II
Karnak, Hatshepsut's obelisk
Karnak
Karnak, sacred pool
Luxor Temples: Pylon, statue, and obelisk of Ramesses II
Luxor, Courtyard of Ramesses II
Luxor, Courtyard of Ramesses II
Luxor
Luxor, pre-dawn boat ride
Luxor, sunrise breakfast
Luxor, sunrise breakfast
Luxor, sunrise breakfast -- local guard (hug-a-thug)
Luxor, sunrise breakfast -- local guard
Luxor, Valley of the Kings
KV 11 signage
Luxor alabaster shop
Luxor, Alabaster shop
Luxor -- Hassan Fathi architectural exhibit
Luxor, felucca sailboat ride
Luxor local fauna
Luxor -- Indian water buffalo
Luxor -- feluccas at sunrise
Luxor -- pre-dawn baloon ride preparations
Luxor -- baloons lifting off (seen from ours, already airborn.)
Luxor -- heating air in our baloon
Luxor -- repacking our baloon after landing
Luxor museum entrance
Luxor vegetable market shopping
Luxor -- hard bargaining in the vegetable market
Nile River boat MS River Hathor
Aboard the MS River Hathor -- Sheikh Tom all rigged out
River Hathor sun deck
Edfu temple "caleche" horsecart shelter
Edfu -- another of our caleches arriving
Edfu -- Horus statue in his temple
Edfu -- ALRI travellers group photo
Edfu -- inside the Horus Temple
Edfu -- Horus temple interior
Edfu -- Horus temple interior
Life jacket drill on the MS River Hathor
Chopping veggies aboard the River Hathor
River Hathor cooks teach Egyptian cooking
Towel rolling class on the River Hathor
Galabiyya party on the River Hathor
Galabiyyah party
Dancing with the Stars
River Hathor chorus line
Party games on board
Galabiyya party
Kom Ombo -- Ptolemaic temple of Haroeris and Sobek (Haroeris is the elder Horus, and Sobek is the crocodile god who protects Kom Ombo)
Rural village home museum
Rural home -- baby camels love sugar cane
Investigating the Rural Home
Aswan -- Nubian entertainers on the River Hathor
Philae temple complex (on Agilika Island) -- Ptolemaic temple of Isis
Pylon at the Philae Isis Temple
Aswan High Dam
Map of the Aswan High Dam and Lake Nasser -- in top of the Dam
Aswan -- papyrus paper-making demonstration
Aswan Old Cataract Hotel -- where Agatha Christie wrote Death on the Nile
Aswan -- New Cataract Hotel
Aswan -- view from the New Cataract Hotel
Elephantine Island from the New Cataract Hotel
Aswan -- meal at a Nubian restaurant
Aswan spice market
Aswan spice market -- jewelry and other things are also for sale
Aswan -- camel ride to a desert monastery
Aswan -- camels march toward the monastery
Aswan -- tea at a Nubian house
Aswan -- ALRI ladies get traditional henna "tattoos" at the Nubian house
Aswan -- ALRI ladies show off their henna tattoos
Aswan -- Nubian handicrafts
Aswan -- re-boarding at the Nubian village
Aswan -- Nubian jewelery was a popular gift item
Giza Coptic Cathedral
Saqqara -- Step pyramid of Djoser
Saqqara -- carpet factory
Carpet factory
Carper showroom -- enthusiastic customers
Giza -- Kyufu's solar boat
Khufu's boat
Giza -- Pharaoh's bagpipes at the pyramid sound-and-light show
Giza -- pyramid sound-and-light show
Cairo -- Alabaster Mosque (Mosque of Mohammed Ali) courtyard
Cairo -- interior of the Alabaster Mosque
Cairo -- brass in the Khan al Khalili
Cairo -- ALRI travellors outside the Khan al Khalili
Cairo -- another shop in the Khan al Khalili
Cairo -- yet another chance to shop