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We arrived in Cairo in an early flight (05:40 AM) on 29th of April. While everyone in Beijing said we have a late spring this year, no problem in Egypt, it was already in hot summer, hot but not humid. I cannot sleep during the flight, my head was still dizzy, we met our local Egyptian guide Yasser at the airport. This was my first time to have a local but not Chinese guide, who supposed to speak Chinese, after some chat with him (a little test), I found that his Chinese was just next to me… by 2 miles…

Yasser told me, he graduated from Cairo University, majored in Chinese, and his teachers were not Chinese but Egyptians as well, wow! He has been doing as a Chinese-speaking guide for some years, and I can see that he is very proud of his job, why not!

We actually spent 2 days in Cairo, the first day and the last day, I just merged the photos together in one post. After a very nice breakfast in a local hotel on the way from the airport, (any food is better than the food in the plane), as everything was tightly scheduled, we didn’t have much time on eating, en route, we headed to the Pyramids in Giza.

This is a snapshot from our bus, we were on a express way I think, the traffic was still rushing, but not bad.

This was my first glimpse of the Pyramids, sorry my lens was not enough for them. People can climb up a bit to the entrance, I didn’t see anyone trying to climb up any further, it was forbidden I think, special tickets needed if you want to go inside, we didn’t have enough time for that, maybe next time. But I was told that to have a mask would be a good idea, the tunnel was stinking.

After lunch, we visited the Saladin Citadel and the Mohamed Ali mosque, for more detail of this place, you can visit Wiki. we had some relaxing moment inside, after that, it was time for the Cairo Museum, where collected most of the treasures unearthed in Egypt. A ticket can go most part of the museum, but to see mummy will needed special ticket, like most of the museum in the world, a two hours visit definitely was not enough, but to focus in Tutankhamen would be a good idea.

Note, cameras are not allowed inside the museum, you have to deposit them at the entrance.

Following photos were shot on our last day afternoon in Egypt, it was at the Khan El-Khalili Bazaar. The place was great if you are good at bargaining, go inside is like a jump into the jungle of peddlers.

Memphis was also our last day’s schedule, I just put photos here as well.

Some of the oldest Pyramids are just around here.

Cairo railway station, we were on the way to Aswan, the first day was just utterly exhausted, after waiting for about 1 hour, our train arrived at last, wagon-lit with air-conditioning, we supposed to arrive in Aswan around 10:00 am next morning, but we were late by 1 hour, someone told me, it was not too bad!

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