In 2005 Marilee and I took an archeological tour of Egypt. We arrived in Egypt a couple days early so we could explore on our own before our group formed. Like the Peruvian trip, the itinerary was put together by Far Horizons, who specializes in, and does a great job with,  archeological tours. I’d recommend that company for no other reason tourists traveling with Far Horizons get a great deal of access to people and places not available to others. The leader was a Boston professor. Unlike the working archeologist who led the Peruvian trip, this academic expressed no interest in current Egyptian culture and practices. If she had any, she was unwilling act upon it or to share it with us. For example, although we repeatedly drove by a rug factory, numerous requests failed to result in an exploratory stop. Marilee and I were probably in the minority that believed avoiding the modern made the trip less than it could have been.

        The Egyptian trip was in sharp contrast to the Far Horizons experience in Peru where guides and drivers were very responsive to spontaneous requests. Marilee and I were glad we arrived in Egypt ahead of the group so we had a chance to explore and interact with contemporary Egyptians, not just long-dead ones.

        As usual when we travel, I took a lot of pictures. Unfortunately I used a defective type of CD to preserve them and a good many have been lost, including a few of my favorites. When it comes to photos I believe you can never have too many backups on different media stored in different places, so despite losing up to 500  photos on the two disks, 435  pictures survived. This site contains almost half of the survivors.

        The Egyptian part of our trip lasted about three weeks. I’m sharing the pictures I was able to find in the order in which they were shot, with a little rearranging for clarity. The tombs and temples are not identified. All my labeling information was on one of the unusable disks, and I have no special reason to look the the info up in a book. Enjoy the pictures. Many, but not all, these sites can be found in a big picture book of Egypt.

        Camera: Nikon Coolpix 4500 shooting with automatic settings.