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Egypt with Cornell Adult University

3-15 November, 2010

Welcome! Thank you for coming to see these photos....

This is just a quick, crude start... I'll email you again later... end of November?... when more is here. Until then, check from time to time for new photos?

At this time, this site has subsidiary pages (Photos linked to a timeline, and A page of text sketching our itinerary, and A page of "local color" photos.) The replacement of my main computer is proceeding. (The old one "died" while I was away.) I have sensible email again! (Still without my boiler system at the moment, as you can partly see from....my home monitoring webpage... which also went down while I was in Egypt, as did the other one that matters to me. Glad I didn't have the luck in Egypt that was prevalent in the rest of my life during that period! Awaiting the engineer as I type this with electric heaters sending my bill through the roof. On the web-page: Vertical bars are midnights. Lower red/yellow line is outside temperature, red/yellow lines above that: inside temperatures. (There will not be a test. You're safe ignoring all this, if not curious. For more information: See FarWatch/ DS025 page.)


construction site

Like, one might conclude, much of Cairo's residential infrastructure at this time, this site is Under Construction.... but I hope you will find enough here already to reward your visit?


The photos are not well organized yet, nor much text written. A dead home heating system and main computer are not helping....

If you have pictures you'd be willing to contribute to this page, please click here for a message about that.

Eventually, this page will merely be the entry to a set of pages. It will have a few "top" photos, but most of the photos of the trip will be on the subsidiary pages, the list of which has started below. With most browsers, if you right click on a link, the page opens in a new tab or window, allowing you to re-visit this "table of contents" page easily. Or just click the links in the usual way, if that made no sense. Links to external pages will usually open in new tabs or windows, because of the way I've written the page. But power browsing is worth learning!

Overview of trip itinerary. (Mostly text, useful if you want to tell friends "what we did".)

Photos linked to specific days, events, places.

Photos of local people, life, etc.

Message for friends on the trip: If you liked (or could at least "stand") "DaVinci Code", give "Alexandria Link", by Steve Berry a try. Fun premise, and the "plot thickens" nicely as it unfolds! (Bought my copy, mostly by coincidence, at AUC... just needed some "recreational" reading material.)





trip leaders

First and foremost, a huge "thank you" to those who made our time in Egypt so worthwhile. A plane ticket and a hotel room are not hard to arrange, but the well structured program and the expert commentary, and Someone Else dealing with... everything... makes going with CAU well worthwhile. And thanks, too, to all those who worked with the three most "visible" people making our trip wonderful, some of whom were much valued members of our roving band, some of whom were working for us "in the wings". Some were supporting us in Egypt, others back in Ithaca at the CAU office, and the good people at World Leaders Travel (San Francisco) also contributed to the trip's success. Plus Abercrombie and Kent, and the staff of their wonderful "Nile Adventurer."





The trip was really to learn about Egypt from the time of the rise of Islam, to the Egypt of modern times, and about some related issues in the world today. But these web pages are still under development, and along the way, we did also avail ourselves of the chance to experience part of the amazing story of ancient Egyptian... and that lends itself to reporting in photos more easily than the story of Egypt from around 600 A.D.

My first view of pyramids. It was on our second night, from my hotel room, at dusk. This may look like I've been making heavy alterations with PhotoPlus, my image manipulation software, but I've only done minor tidies, and added the border. I don't recall the sky being quite so red, but the impression is faithful to my memory of the sight. The considerable air pollution meant that the pyramids were often always visible from my hotel room... but the atmospheric conditions made the views interesting, when they occurred! (I didn't see them the first night I was there because, despite "knowing" where to look, and despite major clues to where north was, I got myself "turned around", and looked the wrong direction!

Pyramids from Cairo

street trader's sign, Luxor

Although the quality of this image is poor, if you went on the trip, this sign from Luxor may raise a smile. (The street vendors in Egypt are not shy or retiring. You have to learn how to deal with them, and after that, you will be okay. Furthermore, if you trouble to go two streets away from the vendors' streets, you can enjoy Egypt in peace.)



Don't forget: There are other pages with more information. And at 23Nov10, this collection of photos is still evolving.

Overview of trip itinerary

Photos linked to specific days, events, places.

Photos of local people, life, etc.



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Hope you've enjoyed the above?



Photos from other trips:

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    Pacific Northwest:   Trip with Cornell Adult University to study and enjoy the ecology of the region. September 2010.
    Over Colorado:   Photos from a short flight in the mountains in a small plane.
    Istanbul and Athens:   A trip on my own, October 2009.
    Africa:   Botswana and Zambia with Cornell Adult University. October 2008.
    India:   Delhi, Agra, and the south. November 2007.
    Peruvian Amazon: Trip with Cornell Adult University, February/ March 2007.
    Florence, Italy: On my own, October 2006.
    Costa Rica: Family trip, with Cornell Adult University, Christmas 2004.
    Botswana and neighbors, with Spencer's Adventures, November 2004.
    Galapagos and Machu Picchu, with Spencer's Adventures, October 2001.


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