| The Step Pyramid of Djoser, with anonymous
members of the Ramses tour group in the foreground. |
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The GT+Z horsing around in the sand on the edge of the
Sahara Desert. |
| Looking up the side of the Great Pyramid of Cheops within a
few minutes of noon; I didn't intend to catch the sun flash quite so brilliantly, but liked the picture and decided
to hang on to in anyway.. |
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The Gruesome Twosome just before their camel ride. A
few seconds after this picture was taken, Alex's camel decided to stand up suddenly and almost pitched Alex onto the
ground. Oliver—our hard-working and capable German tour guide—is the gentleman on the far left in the
background. |
| Alex and Jacob at the Temple of Karnak, waiting for
Mohammed to finish talking. The dark bands on the pillars in the background are from several thousand years of
Nile floods. |
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The Nile Crown II being maneuvered close to the banks so
that we can board. The boat actually only drafts 1.4 meters (about 4˝ feet), so
they would literally nudge it up against the shore and extend a gangplank. |
| The Temple of Queen Hatshepsut (in the background) and our
tour guide Mohammed (in the foreground). Don't tell Jacob, but he thought I was taking his picture. |
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Alex in the Valley of the
Kings. The reason that there aren't any other tourists visible is because we rather overtly climbed over a
security barrier to take this shot. In reality, there are several hundred people milling around about 3 feet
behind me. |
| The boys at the Temple of Horus in Edfu. In a rare
show of patience, they waited for several minutes for at least three large tour groups to stop and move on at the
main pylons just behind them. Compared to the rest of the Temple, this scene is virtually deserted. |
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Monkey-boy enjoying a rare
break from his baby-rack at the Temple of Horus. We tried to give him a chance to crawl around in the sand at
least once or twice a day, but didn't always manage it. |
| I wasn't kidding…Jacob really did get handed a foot-long,
very much alive baby crocodile; the reason the critter is slightly blurred in the photo is because it was thrashing
around, trying to get free. |
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The outer facade of the
Alabaster Mosque in Cairo. |
