Cairo International Airport

That was our wonderful holidays in Egypt

Breakfast at the hotel

We booked the hotel limousine go to the airport after breakfast.

Dinner at Downtown Restaurant

We ate so many times here that we have tried most of the food. So we decided to try the buffet this time.

Al-Muizz Street

Al-Muizz Street is a street within the walled city of Islamic Cairo. It runs from the city gate of Al Futuh in the north to the gate of Bab Zuweila in the south. It dates back to the Fatimid dynasty in the 10th century and has been declared a World Heritage Site

Bab al-Futuh

The Fatimid city gate

Al-Hakim Mosque

Mosque of Al-Aqmar

Sabil Kuttab

(A structure with fountain)

Lunch at Downtown Restaurant

We came back to the hotel for lunch. 

A selection of bread

Tuna sandwich

Tonyam mushroom soup

The Great Sphinx of Giza

Archaeologists dated the Sphinx to the Old Kingdom (c2500 BC) crediting Khafre as its builder. It stands at 20 m high and 73 m long. The lion's body symbolizes royal power and the head a pharaoh believed to be Khafre. The name sphinx was only given during the classical antiquity about 2000 years later.

We left Giza at 1.05 pm after spending 3.5 hours here

The First Intermediate Period saw the decline of the Old Kingdom and the Giza Necropolis was abandoned.  Drifting sand eventually buried the Sphinx up to its shoulders. The Sphinx was only freed from the sand in 1930s

Photo from 1856 taken from Tour Egypt

Bonaparte before the Sphinx 

by Jean-Leon Gerome ini 1886

Khafre's Valley Temple

Kissing the Sphinx

November 2007

Pyramid of Khufu

The Pyramid of Khufu is also known as the Great Pyramid of Giza. It is the largest of the three great pyramids. Standing at a height of 146 m, it is also the tallest of the three. Khufu reigned from 2589-2566 BC during the Old Kingdom. Khufu managed to built this great pyramid from the lessons learned from building the Bent and Red pyramids.

A boat pit

Another boat pit