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Paris and Egypt Photos
Saying goodbye to May and Mr. Yuan (Mr. Money)
Leaving China
Driving into Paris. The Eiffel Tower is by the lamp post
Princes Caroline Hotel, good location but small rooms
McDonalds is Jerry’s Internet hotspot
Albert Meilhaus and Jerry before we went to dinner
Leaving the hotel with Sylvia
Would you believe we haven’t killed each other off in 25 yrs.?
Special anniversary dessert
Tour Eiffel on the way back to the hotel
The next morning. We all could use some more sleep!
A little touring time with Kim and Ryan at Arc de Triomphe
Another 25th anniversary celebration!
Kathy trying to get into the Louis Vuitton store
You can get a consultation if you can’t get cash.
Coffee on the Champs Elysees
Kim and his son Ryan
A peaceful Champs Elysees at 10 AM
Our Paris hotel location was at the third crosswalk
Kathy’s turn to wheel in the baggage
Cairo International Airport at dusk
Grandstand where President Sadat was assassinated
Movenpick Hotel pool
Two women carrying metal cans along the side road.
Entrance to oldest temple ruins at pyramid of Zoser
Examining the temple columns- 5000 yrs. old!
Jerry & Bishoy at stepped pyramid of King Zoser
Graffiti on a Zoser’s tomb wall 1500 yrs. later-(King Tuts time)
Kathy and friend entering the Mere-Ruka (nobleman’s) tomb
13 year old girl in a carpet school
Green fields along the water canal
Roadside fruit stand
Pleasanton Weekly photo at Giza Pyramids
Our guide Bishoy posed Kathy to ‘hold up’ a pyramid!
Yeah - we didn’t fall off yet
Helping us off the camels
Some souvenir items for sale
One of three big pyramids at Giza
Granite walled mummification temple.
Left over stone or a special tribute was the Sphinx?
Sphinx in front of the pyramids
Lunch in an open air covered pavilion
Unbelievable view from the lunch pavilion
Street scene from our van
A typical roadside mosque
Luxor and the Nile as we neared the end of our flight
Sugar cane stacked in narrow gauge cars
West bank country side looking toward the hills
Valley of the Kings map
Layout of Rameses IV tomb
New KV63 tomb with Amenmeses tomb behind it.
Entering Rameses III tomb.
Us in front of King Tuts tomb.
Guard with Rameses I tomb in background.
Queen Hatshepsut’s temple
Kathy in front of offering to the gods illustration
Rebuilt third floor
Local village
Kathy being shown alabaster vase making
Remains of workers village
Architect
Embalming scene
Colossus of Memnon
Nile from roadway
Nile and Valley of Kings mountains from our hotel
Returning from Luxor Museum
The tour buses arrived in mass when we did at Karnak
Inside square covers XX acres and still difficult to show scale
Obelisk in Karnak, sister one in Rome at St. Peter’s
Only some statues still stand due to 73 A.D. quake
The ‘digs’ go in even here at Karnak Temple, and movies
Did we say movies? Where’s Indiana Jones?
Kathy in front of Scarab, the symbol of luck
Entrance to Luxor Temple, missing 2nd obelisk in France
Unique statue shows his Queen the same size as Tut
Jerry in sun hat talking with our guide
Partial section of the center square inside Luxor Temple
Some illustrations are worn - many great after 4000+ yrs.
How many generations have guarded the temples?
Looking back at Luxor Temple as we leave
Does Ronald McDonald look out of place ?
Instead of a “taxi” stand, this one is for horses & carriages
The Sonesta St. George - our Luxor Hotel
Enjoying the cool sea air
Security checkpoint to our hotel
Pompeys Pillar
Solders guarding the monument
Street cars are alive and well here
A local fabric store
Carting in cotton to make mattresses
A market street
You see him in every city, a reminder from the President.
Citadel of Qaitbay
Jerry and Bishoy on the Citadel wall
South view from the wall
Caesar may have sailed in this harbor to meet Cleo
View from our restaurant
Former women’s palace for the wives and children
