Egypt: Day 1
June 17, 2022
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On Day 1, I flew into Heathrow, London, then on to Cairo for a tour of Egypt, featuring Cairo, Aswan, Luxor and a cruise along the Nile for 3 days. Cairo has a population of over 23 million.
Arriving late afternoon,
I got there in time to be briefed by our tour guide Ahmed (pronounced Awk-med) Wahab, who went to university to study Egyptology, studying at the Egyptian Museum (which we visited),
knew a whole lot about Egyptian history, and could be shown pretty much any wall of hieroglyphs. There were lots of supplementary tours I could book on top Abu Simbel, which I had
booked extra with Wingbuddy when I first booked the tour, and they were a night tour by carriage of Luxor, air balloons over Luxor I later learned would be at sunrise, and a sailing
and Elephantine Island tour in Aswan.
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Above: Heathrow Airport, London, Terminal 5.
1 shows flying over cloud cover over the Atlantic Ocean.
2 is Terminal 5 in Heathrow Airport, London, the terminal exclusively serving British Airways.
3 to 7 shows outside Cairo Airport.
8 shows a mosque on the way to the Radisson Blu Hotel.
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