Egypt - Last Days

The last full day, we took a bus from Sharm El Sheikh back to Cairo. My advice: if you’re ever in Egypt, avoid the buses! It was interesting to see the desert on one side and the Red Sea on the other, but after about an hour of it, you’re done… and you’ve got 7 hours to go.
Our only excitement along the way, was at the Suez Canal Military Zone where they pulled over our bus, made us all get out and started to unload the luggage to do a search. A couple of guys on the bus got into a shouting match with the military guys and we started to wonder what it might escalate to. But they let us load back up after 15 minutes or so and we were on our way. Not knowing the language meant we really didn’t know what it had all been about.

Then on our last partial day, we toured a little more of Cairo before catching our plane back to Germany. We went to the old capital, Memphis, of coursing making jokes about how I was born there, and saw the second largest Sphinx, called the Alabaster Sphinx.


We visited the Hanging Church in Old Cairo that had these cool mosaics.



We also visited the Ezra Synagogue, but couldn’t take pictures, and we drove around the city some more. When we got to the airport, this cute little girl was flirting with Marty. She was adorable!


It was an interesting trip... a once in a lifetime thing, because I think once was enough and I don't think I'll go back. Still, I'm glad I went at least this once!