12/31/2005

迷失在开罗 Lost in Cairo


Traffic in Cairo, in front of the Egyptian Museum.


Barrell Lounge and Bar, Windsor Hotel, Cairo.


Crowded minibus in Cairo, only LE0.75 a ride. Taxi costs LE20.


Cairo traffic.


Coptic Cairo, below ground level.


Cairo rooftop dishes.


Bayt al-Suhaymi, Cairo's finest example of the traditional family mension built throughout the city from Mamluk times to the 19th century. Islamic Cairo, Egypt.


Islamic Cairo. Nobel Prize Literature Winner Naguib Mahfouz was born in this alley.


Modern central Cairo.


Cairo traffic. Egypt.


Shadow of a mosque in Cairo.


Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt, one of the best museums in the world. In 1835, the Egyptian government established the "Service des Antiques de l'Egypte" in an attempt to halt the plundering of archeological sites and to arrange the exhibition of collected artifacts. In 1900, the Egyptian Museum as we know it today was built and now houses over 120,000 objects from the pre-historic era to the Greco-Roman period, including ancient sculptures of the Sphinx. Main attraction: Artifacts from the tombs of kings and royal families, particularly those belonging to King Tutankhamun.


The Mohammad Ali (Alabaster) Mosque, Citadel, Cairo, Egypt.


Military Museum, Cairo.


The statue of Ibrahim Pasha (in front of the Military Museum) and the Mohammad Ali Mosque in the Citadel, Cairo.

埃及风俗人情 Egypt: People and Culture


Camel truck, Upper Egypt.


Aswan Souk (market), Upper Egypt.


Egyptian bus. Aswan, Egypt.


Edfu market, Egypt.


Market in Luxor, Egypt.


Two Egyptian boys in Luxor.


Egyptian school girls at Queen Hetshepsut's Temple of Deir el Bahari, Egypt.


Egyptian school boys running up the steps of Queen Hetshepsut's Temple of Deir el Bahari, Egypt.


A large bowl of koshary, LE2.0, a famous Egyptian dish. Very delicious!!!


A woman in the Mohammad Ali Mosque, Citadel, Cairo.

12/30/2005

埃及的亚历山大 Alexandria, Egypt


Alexandria! Alexandria! Egypt.


The new Library of Alexandria (Bibliotheca Alexandrina). It is said to have the largest reading area in the world.


Dog and Sphinx in Alexandria, Egypt.

12/28/2005

埃及西奈半岛 Sinai Peninsula, Egypt


Ras Mohamed National Park--beautiful Red Sea in southern Sinai.


Ras Mohammed, the most beautiful diving and snorkeling place in the world, is a national park at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, Sham-el-Sheihk, Egypt.


Sunrise on top of Mount Sinai, Egypt.


Sunrise on top of Mount Sinai. Hundreds of people climbed the mountain overnight to watch the sunrise.

12/22/2005

12/17/2005

埃及卢克索 Luxor and Karnak, Egypt


Avenue of Sphinx, Karnak Temple, Luxor, Egypt.


Karnak Temple, Luxor, Egypt.


Columns at Karnak Temple, Luxor, Egypt.


Karnak Temple, Egypt.


Luxor Temple, Egypt.


Avenue of Sphinx, Luxor Temple, Egypt.


Obelisks in Karnak Temple, Luxor, during the light and sound show.

12/16/2005

埃及尼罗河风光 Nile River and Cruise, Egypt


Sunset on the river Nile.


Nile cruise ship. Aswan.


Old Cataract Hotel, Aswan. This is where Agatha Christie wrote her famous Death on the Nile.


Felucca (sail boat) on the Nile in Aswan, from the famous Old Cataract Hotel.


The "first cataract" of Aswan. This is the natural boundary of ancient Egypt in the south, because it was difficult to sail pass the cataract (Egypt depends on the river Nile). North from here, Nile is one smooth river. South of Aswan was Nubian.


Nile Cruise.


River Nile, Egypt.


Nile Cruise at sunset, Egypt.


Room service on the Nile Cruise.


Nile River, Egypt.


Fertile land of the Nile Valley.


River Nile.


Nile Cruise, room service #2. Egypt.


Minaret in Esna, Egypt.


Sunset on the River Nile.


Falucca captain, near Luxor on river Nile.