Seeing the World: You Walk Like an Egyptian

Hello from the land of pyramids, mummies, papyrus paper and more!

The first full day in Egyptian we went to explore the Egyptian Museum. This museum was quite massive, and from the guide book I read it said that they had over 100,000 artifacts. If a person was to spend a minute on each artifact it would take at least 9 months, and a 6-7 hour tour is enough to just get an introduction of the place. It really was a great museum, and looking at the egyptians times was very interesting. It would of been nice to have a guide or more time, but it was nice just to wonder. I did get to see King Tut's mask. Also there was an extra exhibit in the museum that we could of gone into if I paid another $20, but I didn't have that. In that part of the museum they had more mummified mummies. According to Caitlin, it was very much worth it. Oh darn, this just gives me another reason to head back.

Egyptian Museum from hotel

Later that night, we had a mini boat ride on the Nile river and watch the sun set, which was really nice. Also we did some exploration that night. It was a safe enough city for me to walk around by myself, but as a woman, I was bothered a little bit by men. I got the compliment of walking like an Egyptian woman. HA. Anyhoo, I did find some nifty things to stare at, but I was good about saving my money :)

Sunset on Nile River

The next day we were off to see the pyramids in Giza, and see some ancient buildings. These pyramids are INCREDIBLE! I was so happy to see them and was able to climb up on one of them. Well, just a few steps. We also got to climb underneath into one, it was a lot of fun. We had a guide with us and he gave us a lot of historical information that I probably would screw up trying to write it all. We also went to a papyrus shop to see how the paper was made. It was really interesting, but the most interesting part was meeting this guy that spoke 14 different languages fluently.