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Al Mutḩaf al Mişrī

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    • Day 5

      Fantastic sighseeing day!

      May 21, 2022 in Egypt ⋅ ⛅ 86 °F

      Went to the Citadel, Alabaster Mosque, lunch (a typical Egyptian meal of bread, plate of carrots/peas/zucchini/French fries (I know 🧐) the warm cream chicken soup, more bread, then a sizzling grill of beef, lamb, chicken and rice pudding w/shaved coconut). Then the guided tour of Egyptian Museum which exceeded my expectations. A wonderful day. We are hot, sweaty. Resting before our welcome reception.Read more

    • Day 162

      Cairo

      August 30, 2022 in Egypt ⋅ ☀️ 91 °F

      Miles: 2.4 Steps: 5638 Flights: 13

      We went to downtown Cairo today to the Egyptian Museum. What a difference in areas - Everywhere that ISN’T downtown is littered with garbage, buildings falling down and just outright nasty. Then you cross into the downtown area and it’s clean and modern.

      The museum was neat - we saw two actual mummies which was a first.

      Spent the rest of our day at our hotel, working in the room looking at the pyramids out of window. So nice to have that view 24/7 since that’s what we came here for.

      Saw another amazing sunset and the light show. Egypt is in a “reconsider travel here” warning by the state department - but so far, really glad we took the risk and made the stop here!
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    • Day 6

      Ausflug zu den Piramyden von Gize

      December 27, 2022 in Egypt ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

      Das Schiff hält in Alexandria an um uns zu unserer Reise zu den Pyramiden raus zu lassen 👍😀es geht 3.5 Std. Nach Kairo ins Museum und anschliessend weiter nach Gize zu den 3 Pyramiden es war Eindrücklich und Schön.
      Aber ich sag euch der Car Chaufeur hatte seine mühe mit der Schaltung ( die arme Kupplung)🤣🤣🤣
      Die Sphinx durften wir auch no Begrüssen dann noch ein kurzer Stopp bei einer Papier Produktion und los gehts zum Schiff.
      Kurz vor dem auslaufen Pot Said bei nacht😀
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    • Day 172

      Museum and touching the nile

      October 26, 2023 in Egypt ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C

      Today we continued sightseeing ancient Egypt with a trip to the museum. It was very crowded but was quite cool. It was filled with mummies and sarcophaguses and statues, some of which were from as far back as 3000BC! My favourite artefacts were the older sarcophaguses, theyre carved out of big singular slabs of dark rock and don't have much going on in terms of decoration but they're so striking to look at, i definitely understand why rick owens got one to for his home. Other standouts were the statues of the egyptian gods (the hippo one was my favourite, she is the God of the home and parents would ask her to make sure their kids did't get eaten by snakes and crocodiles), Tutankhamen's treasure (his sarcophegus is by far the best preserved, it's so shiny and has jewels and golden carvings all over it), and the massive mummified crocodiles. Once we left the museum we roamed around for a bit and realised that there isn't actually that much to do in cairo so we ended up just going back home. While we were roaming around I managed to touch the nile which was something I came to Egypt wanting to do. Unfortunately it's not very accessible so I had to run through a building site and touch it in a place where there was a bunch of rubbish but it had to be done.

      On our last day we went to a restaurant overlooking the nile for lunch :).

      A few concluding observations about cairo as a city:
      The roads are extremely wide(sometimes 10+ lanes) and busy which makes walking around the city quite a nerve jangling experience.

      The people in general kinda suck (always hassle you and just loiter around in intimidating groups) they actually weren't that bad to me tho because they were all a lot more interested in spencer with his long blonde hair, I found if I just walked 5m behind him I could avoid all the drama ahahah.

      There are no vegetarian options to eat but the food is really really nice (kebab type stuff). One of the restaurants we went to served us a salad with the Salsa dressing in a cup, I think you're supposed to take a bite of your kebab and then take a sip of the dressing so that everything doesn't get all soggy which is pretty clever.
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    • Day 29

      The Egyptian Museum

      October 31, 2022 in Egypt ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

      The Uber took a it longer than expected, (although still only 110 LE) and got to the museum 20 minutes after it opened and the tours were already there. The crowding was worst going through security, then it was in OK. At times some of the exhibits were blocked by a group, but it always cleared.

      The museum was established in 1835 and the current building opened in 1901 and is the oldest museum in the Middle East, It exclusively focuses on the predynastic to Roman eras of Egypt, and is there ever a LOT of that!

      Two hours only covered the "guidebook highlights".
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    • Day 4

      Cairo D2 - pyramids, sphinx, museum

      December 23, 2023 in Egypt ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C

      Busted the pyramids of Giza, saw Christmas camel, and bonded more with my new family of Brits and Egyptian guide, Mohammed (the “Casper” family).

      The pyramids were stunning and even more impressive than I imagined. I got to go inside the Cheops’ pyramid and see a burial chamber! Blew my mind at how much more incredible this is than my childhood imagination could conceive...Read more

    • Day 2

      Ägyptisches Museum Kairo

      May 22, 2023 in Egypt ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C

      Unsere kleine Reisegruppe für heute und morgen besteht aus Mohammed, dem Ägyptologen, Mohammed, dem Fahrer, einem Paar aus Berlin und uns. So bleibt genügend Zeit für Gespräche mit Mohammed (dem Ägyptologen), der ab und zu dienstlich in Deutschland ist und überhaupt sehr aktiv zu sein scheint in der Tourismusbranche.
      Durch den dichten und chaotischen Verkehr brachte uns Mohammed (der Fahrer) traumwandlerisch sicher zum Ägyptischen Museum am Tahiri-Platz.
      Dort gibt es erstaunliche Exponate aus derZeit der Pharaonen zu sehen.
      Wir hätten gern den ganzen Tag dort zugebracht, hatten allerdings nur reichlich zwei Stunden. Und die vergingen leider wie im Fluge. (Stimmt nicht, im Flieger vergeht die Zeit langsamer …)
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    • Day 19

      A visit to the Egyptian Museum, Cairo

      January 8, 2023 in Egypt ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C

      We were up earlier than planned this morning due to noisy neighbours! We got ready and went to breakfast at 8 so we had plenty of time before our trip was due to start at 9.

      In reception at the appointed hour, Romani appeared with another guy who he introduced to us as Ray, our guide for today and tomorrow. We had a bit of a chat about the tour we have just done and about Nabil and then went to find our transport and driver.

      Our first stop was the Egyptian museum in the centre of Cairo, a building purpose-built in 1897 to house Egypt's impressive collection of antiquities. There are plans to move the entire collection to a new site near the Pyramids. Indeed, the building is ready (Nabil pointed it out to us when we were there) and some artefacts have already been relocated. By all accounts, it will be a modern state-of-the-art facility which will rank as one of the great museums of the world when it opens to the public.

      The current museum is rather dark and dusty with poorly-written explanations about the exhibits. It is, nevertheless, an impressive collection, despite the fact that so many antiquities were taken overseas by the archaeologists and treasure hunters who discovered them.

      Ray showed us the highlights of the museum and explained their significance. He left us by the Tutankhamen room and gave us free time to explore by ourselves. It was quite a moment coming face-to-face with the young Pharaoh's mask and sarcophagus. I remember when the Tutankhamen exhibition came to the British Museum in London to mark the 50th anniversary of Howard Carter's discovery of the tomb. It was 1972. I was seven years old. My friend, Carolyn West, went to see the exhibition. It was a huge deal! She brought a commemorative programme into school to show us all. I can vividly remember seeing the pictures of the magnificent treasures, the like of which none of us had ever seen before. It sparked an interest in me that never went away. Now, just over 50 years later, today I saw them for myself! It was quite a moment!!

      We weren't allowed to take photos in Tutankhamen's room, so I bought a couple of postcards instead.

      We spent a further hour in the museum marvelling at the exhibits and wondering at the incredible talents of the Ancient Egyptians to have created such a huge quantity of outstanding artefacts.
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    • Day 10

      Kultur am Tahrir Square

      August 28, 2022 in Egypt ⋅ ☀️ 36 °C

      Natürlich darf die kulturelle Komponente auch nicht fehlen. Dafür waren wir im Ägyptischen Museum am Tahrir Square, welches sehr interessant aber auch sehr chaotisch war. Außerdem waren wir auf einem Jazz Konzert im Kulturpavillon der AUC.Read more

    • Day 37

      Kairo - Ägyptisches Museum

      March 16, 2020 in Egypt ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

      Vor unserem Aufbruch nach Kairo schien es uns in der gesamten Corona-Situation am sinnvollsten, hierher aufzubrechen. Hier scheint die Lage recht entspannt, jedoch stellt sich nun heraus, dass wir unsere Reise aufgrund der Grenzschließungen schon mal nicht im Sudan fortsetzen können und auch Deutschland die Grenzen dicht machen will. Noch immer scheint es uns allerdings besser, hier zu bleiben.
      Da es vermutlich der erste Ort ist, der hier irgendwann schließen würde, besuchen wir heute das ägyptische Museum und tauchen mit all den großen und kleinen Skulpturen und sonstigen Fundstücke in die Zeit des alten Ägyptens ein. Sehr faszinierend zu was die Menschen zu dieser Zeit hier schon in der Lage waren. Vor dem Herzstück der Ausstellung, der Maske von Tutanchamun, bekommt Alma vom Aufseher eine Münze, auf der die Maske eingeprägt ist, geschenkt.
      Auch hier bereichert Karin unseren Besuch mit viel Wissenswertem und Geschichten.
      Im Museum, das zwar groß angelegt, jedoch wenig gepflegt und nicht besonders gut aufbereitet ist, wird zeitgleich zum Besucherbetrieb auch renoviert. Die antiken Skulpturen sind zwar mit etwas Folie bedeckt - dennoch für Deutschland unvorstellbar.
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