Anthony, Where Are You?

I am on the way to Alexandria.  We have seen the Pyramids of Giza, the noseless Sphinx, The Nile, camels, horses, donkeys and a million hawkers.  We are definitely tourists.  We are a group of ten, mostly Australians.   Several in the group are blond and of course scarfless so we stand out from the crowds.  And crowds there are in Cairo, a city of 20,000,000. 

The Nile flows up from Africa to the
Mediterranean ending in Rosetta (same place as the stone ) fifty kilometers from Alexandria.  Cairo is on the east side and Giza on the west.  Cairo is a crazy city with many unfinished buildings.

Almost the entire country of 80,000,000 live on either the East Bank or West Bank of the Nile.  In ancient times life was in the East Bank where the sun rises and the Pyramids are on the West Bank where the sun sets and life ends.  The Pharaohs built their monuments on the West Bank (sunset) for their boat trip to the afterlife.  

We went to the Egyptian Museum, a wonderful museum which looks like it comes out of an old movie.  The difference from a live Pharaoh and a dead one is the live one has a clenched fist which shows power and a straight beard.  The dead one has his arms crossed at this chest and a curled beard. There are many figurines.  

 We went to a light show at night at the Pyramids and Sphinx.  I also went to a light show in Jerusalem at Jaffa Gate.  I will not make a public comparison between the two.  The one thing in common was it was cold outside at both. 

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