Exotic Enigmatic Egypt! Part 2

My PC is running though not 100% "well" :o). So my post will be short and sweet, I just hope the photos load up without any hiccups later. Click on the highlighted words to read more about the place I went to. So, where were we??? Oh yeah, Egypt!

Now this is the view from my hotel balcony. The tent in the upper left hand corner is where we had our breakfast everyday.

Lovely, eh? It was nice dining here but sad to say that it seems Egyptian food doesn't have much variety. Can you believe that we had the same type of breakfast for four days? Omelette, pancake, pasta, sausage, porridge, pita bread etc. etc. Uh, forgettable stuff really though of course I enjoyed it only for the first two days. By the third and fourth, I, WMW, for the first time in my life, ate to live rather than live to eat! LOL...

As for swimming, I never got a chance to as the only free time I had was in the morning before we left for the day's programme and I was always greeted by this sign. Anyway, I didn't bring my swimsuit ;o).

After breakfast, off we went to see The Great Pyramid at Giza! I was excited about coming to this place as this is one of the Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World. It was really surreal being there and I felt like I was in some National Geographic documentary.

Of course, you get to see a lot of little stalls selling souvenirs. At certain areas, there are really a lot tourists and it became quite difficult to get a nice shot as they get in the way. It was basically the same problem at most tourist spots. Here, the tourists look like they are for sale along with the souvenirs in the foreground, hahaha! Mmm...French, German, Italian, which one??? Eh, I think not 'cos they seem a bit too old for me :o).

Kahfre's Pyramid, the second largest and The Great Sphinx. Look at how tiny we are compared to the size of them! The photos don't do justice to the feeling one gets being there in person.

You find armed police everywhere here. There is even one on each of our buses, accompanying us in and out of places. To feel safe or to worry about the fact that there's danger lurking, hence the presence of them everywhere??? Uhhh, let's try not think about what happened on November 17, 1997.

Soon, it was time for lunch and we were taken to El Hati Restaurant. It was so dimly lit inside, I felt like I was eating inside a cove, considering that it was daytime! Hahaha....Look at how we sat, all in a row and the tables were low. And this group is only from one of the four buses and groups had different time schedule as the restaurant just couldn't accommodate all of us.

And what can you see on the table? More Pita Bread and dips! Hahaha....We are given a bottle of mineral water each during every meal time (and two on the bus).

Here's a blur shot of what I had, lamb kofta with some beef cubes. The meat was on the dry side but I love the rice yet again. I have no idea how they cook it though this time, it seems that they added some dark sauce to it and it was as fragrant as ever.

To be continued...