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Thursday, February 18, 2016

A Camel Ride by the Pyramids

We have been hosting our friend, Engin, for the past few days and doing a few touristy things in the vicinity of Cairo.  On Friday afternoon we headed over to the Giza pyramids to take a short camel ride into the desert.

We stopped at the stable of Wageh Al Faumey who soon had us mounted up on two fine camels.
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It's just a short five minutes or so along the village streets to reach the entrance to the pyramids compound.
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The elite Egyptian tourist police collected our admission tickets and we were soon moving toward the desert.
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Whoa, Nellie!  I see a picture, right here.  Let's stop and let those horses move up the trail so that they are in the frame too.
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We moved on toward the desert past the Muslim and Christian cemeteries of the village.
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We were just far enough out into the desert to give the illusion of a great empty space.
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We stopped to pose for some of the customary tourist pictures.  This is why you will want a talented guide/photographer.  With today's digital cameras, I can't see anything on the display out in the sun but those guides have no problem.
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Over by the sphinx, there was a nice view of the tourists moving down the long ramp for their pictures.
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It was probably a total of 45 minutes from start to finish.  Both Engin and I survived, as did both of our camels.
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