Posted in Cairo, Day One, Religion on September 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Last night we were very hungry and tired and went out to find a restaurant. We walked a long way but could not find a place to eat. Everything that looked like a restaurant turned out to be a private club. We ended up going back to the restaurant in our hotel. Our waiter […]
Posted in Cairo, Day One, Jose on September 26th, 2007 4 Comments »
After returning from dinner Jose, being the friendly bear that he is, met a friend right away. We were in the lobby and Jose spied a little fellow named Omar, a dromedary, visiting from the tourist town of Sharm El Sheikh. Omar is traveling with his family to celebrate Ramadan with relatives, and then to […]
Posted in Cairo, Day One on September 26th, 2007 3 Comments »
Our landing into Cairo provided images like viewing an IMAX movie. With a bird’s eye view, we circled the city with the Nile River as its center piece. The sight was amazing, with high rise apartments, mosques, football fields, and buildings dotted with satellite dishes, expanding as far as the eye could see. The city is painted in the […]
Posted in Day One, travel on September 26th, 2007 3 Comments »
After over 24 hours of total travel time, we have finally arrived in the great city of Cairo, or Al Qahirah, as the Egyptians call their capital city. After leaving Jacksonville, we flew to Washington, D.C., our nation’s capital, where we had a six hour lay over. We tried to write a post to the […]