Below are my picture from the epic adventure with Messer.'s Flanaghan and Hennessy to Cairo in January 2007. Well ok, it wasn't epic by any means but it was a great time and a great country to visit. I had a ball and would love to go back again.
There are some blanks to fill in below and I've not filled up all the photos captions either but enjoy if you can. The layout is not the best but I'll see what i can do sometime in the future, if I get enough complaints I'll fix it!! The images linked to below are approximatly 700 x 450 pixels in size. I also have them in 1840 x 1232 size if you might want them in for printing or publishing or laughing at!

	Wednesday, January 17th.
			Cobra topped wall at the Zoser temple complex.	The stairs down to the ceremonial pit at the site, thought to have contained the canopic jars, containing the mummies internal organs.	Out over the horizon, pyramids can be seen in the haze.
Excavations must carry on all the time here, much more to discover no doubt.	The Step pyramid of Zoser.	Part of the temple complex built around the pyramid.	At the foot of the pyramid.	Young Heno giving scale to the structure.	The ceremonial courtyard within the temple complex.
The courtyard and pyramid rising above it behind.	Same shot, zoomed out.	This area of Sakkara seems to be littered with old, and probably not so old, structures.	One of the many hard working donkeys we seen, the Egyptian Cadillac as one man called his	There were quite a lot of carpet schools in the area around Sakkara	A road side building, not sure if this is a home.
The only shot I got of an orange seller.	The lush green fields of XXX, a staple animal feed in Eqgyt.	One of the many road side villages.	The Great Pyramid of XXX at Giza.	The Pyramid of XXX.	The largest of the three structures at Giza, XXX's pyramid.
The sun peeping out from behind XXX's pyramid.	The ruins of the burial ceremony structure at XXX's pyramid, along with the car and coach park!	The pyramids of Giza.	The third great pyramid at Giza, that of XXX.	Giza with the sprawl of Cairo stretching as far as the eye can see.	Returning to Camp Camel, Heno leading the way.
The closet I got to a shot of myself on a camel, my chaps head! Was too busy clinging on!	Giza and the ever present security forces.	Souvenir stalls at the camel ride area.	The smaller pyramids for the members of XXX's family.	The pyramid of XXX.
			The only photo I took in the Coptic Christian area. Lots of small streets. Would like to spend more time there again perhaps.	A mosque we passed traveling through the western part of the city.	The Market! Enter at your peril, if you want your gifts etc, the place to go!
The Market with minaret in the background.	Friday, 19th January, Early morning fog on the road north out of Cairo.	One of the many largo entrances in the middle of the desert as you travel north. Might be irrigation projects or army bases?	A desert dwelling with pidgeon huts. The desrt up north appears to be scrub land more so.	Another building in the vicinity of Alamein.	The center piece of the German War Cemetery at Alamein. A sobering place.
The entrance to the German Cemetery, depicts those effected, the father, the brother, the husband, the mother, the sister, the wife. A touching memorial.	The path in to the German memorial. The Mediterranean stretching out before it.	There is a rabbit behind the bush in the center, I swear!	The German War Cemetery at El Alamein.	The Mediterranean Sea.	Grave of an unknown Soldier at the Commonwealth War cemetery. The number of such headstones is sorrowful.
The El Alamein Commonwealth War Cemetery.	The strange remains of stone quarries that stretch along the road west of Alexandria.	Road side fig trees? XXX	The outskirts of Alexandria reflect in the waters.	A refinery perhaps, lights our way into Alexandria.	Papyrus plants abound in the delta.
The Pompei pillar stretches in the heavens.	Eroded building blocks at the old library.	Pompei pillar and the clear blue Egyptian sky.	The pillar and other artifacts displayed at the site.	A shot into the bustle and life of an Egyptian street.	Alexandria sea front.
The harbour of Alexandria.	The national flag flies above the fortress.
One of the local taxis in the Fayum Oasis.	A telegraph pole! I was capturing the view of the nearby desert on the south edge of the oasis.	A shot back down across the yard of the Angel Gabriele Monastry, showing the line between the desert and oasis	Some of the ancient paintings found in the monastery in the early 1990's.	A mix of old and new, some of the decoration of the Coptic monastery church.	The courtyard of the monastary.
Courtyard again with the al-Naqlun Hill behind, surmounted with crucifixes!	The al-Naqlun Hill with its large crosses mounted on top.	A badly placed shot down on to the plain.	Some of the desert adjacent to the monastery	A last scenery shot before we leave.	The Angel Gabriele Monastery, dating from the 4th Century AD.
Along the desert road back to the oasis.	Desert scene.	Road side shot of local farmers.	Old and new again, local farmers, villagers but with mobile phones.	A local building beside a field of the XXX animal feed.	Goat herder.
Sunset on Fayum and also on our holiday! Our last Egyptian sunset, for now!	Evening sets on the Oasis.	Fayum Oasis	The Egyptian Museum at night, taken on my phone!	Some shots of the buildings on the west bank of the Nile (Cam Pic)	The eastern bank.
One of the many restaurant boats on the eastern bank of the the island.	A photo from the Cairo Tower!	Some hardcore body building chemicals on sale in a shop near the hotel! Seriously guys, that stuff can't be good for you.	In the foyer of the hotels building.	A traffic sign! The lower bit looks like Sligo if you rearrange the letters! I know, its silly.	The sign for Mamar El-Central, the small street with the hotel on it.
The Fayum oasis taxi service again!	A cactus plant.	A Clementine plant. We got to eat a fresh one off it.