Egypt in 30 images.

Egypt...oh memorable Egypt!

I grew up reading and watching interesting stories from the Old Testament. So when I was still a little girl, I wished to climb the Pyramids and also see if I could do what Moses did---split the Red Sea in two! Haha!

We flew to Cairo from Montréal the day after Christmas of 2010. I convinced myself that we only needed one full day to visit Cairo's main attraction, the Great Pyramid of Giza. I decided to spend most of our time to rest and relax near the beach in Sharm el-Shiek, a city along the coast of the Red Sea.

The pyramid blocks.





 

 

 

 

Egypt was memorable because of a few incoveniences during this trip.

I felt very uncomfortable when vendors, mostly men, pushed us to buy their souvenirs. I politely say "No, shukran". They give me this look as if saying "I am not dealing with you but with that man"---Alain, my husband.

After a short photo session with a donkey, the owner did not want to give us our camera unless we pay him $20! My husband had a few bills in his hands, and this Egyptian grabbed the money from my husband! Alain had to put his foot down.

We were in a hurry to leave Cairo.

 

 One of the beaches along the Red Sea.

I love these boots, made it Egypt!

 New Year's Gala

 Amazing dancer, he was spinning for almost an hour, non-stop!

 Saudi Arabia just across the Red Sea!

 Egyptian desert. On our way to St. Catherine's Monastery.

 St. Catherine's Monastery

 

Believed to be the location of the burning bush.

 Mount Sinai in the background. A possible location of the biblical Mount Sinai where Moses received the Ten Commandments.

With the American-Egyptian family in this tour of the Sinai Peninsula.

 

On our way back from a 26-hour tour of Petra, Jordan---our tour bus started to emit smoke from the inside. A mother of young children yelled and asked the driver to stop the bus. All of us passengers came out of the bus and now stranded in the middle of the pitch-dark Egyptian desert! The driver and his assistant spoke very little English. I have to admit that that moment was one of the scariest I have experienced during my travel. Luckily, there were other tour buses that passed by and one bus brought us back to Sharm el Shiekh.

 

We were thankful for our experiences in Egypt despite of the inconveniences, those will serve as a lesson.

 

And what a sight! What a marvel to be standing in front of the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World!