More gorgeous photos of the bazaar

This is my last day in Egypt.

first photos of the bazaar

At the papyrus factory

They added MAX on the left and NICK on the right.

At the deck on the Nile Plaza

Who Could it be Now?

Here are my extraordinarily clever pictures of the Sphinx - note the very rare and highly sought after EYELASH on the third photo.

Next stop

I have COMPLETELY screwed up any sequential account of my visit to Egypt, for which I blame Picasa (quite unreasonably) so I am now moving into photos which I hope will not betray my complete geographical illiteracy. A guy in Israel described me (appropriately) as "directionally challenged".

Ah, if only I had done it like THIS

My Trip to the West Bank by Bernard Chazelle

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~chazelle/politics/wb08-travel.html
I recommend my friends log onto this website as a useful version of the tourist's visit to the West Bank in the first part of 2008. Like this writer, whose descriptions are packed with useful information as well as various observations, I had a sense of the inevitability of more and worse conflict between Israelis and Palestinians in the not so distant future.
There appeared to me to be no prospect of a genuine and lasting peace unless people are willing to give, and not insist only that others give first. The humiliation the writer describes was also reflected in my observations of interactions between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians who were subjected to regular scrutiny just trying to move from point A to point B in their own home town.
The new settlements in the West Bank are extremely disturbing evidence of the legitimacy accorded to some people's absolute disrespect for others.

Abu Simbel

temple of Luxor

scarab

from the temple of Karnak to the temple of Luxor

The Temple of Karnak

This was a seriously hot day, and my small tour group was diminished even further by the weather.

Travelling on the East bank to The Temple of Karnak.

The Colossi of Memnon

The cafe at the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut

61 tourists were killed here by the Muslim Brotherhood in 1997. Many of them were with the same tour company I travelled with. The tour guides told us that all 110 boats on the Nile and everyone else involved in tourism went out of business for the next year and longer. "We all stayed home".
The woman in the bottom corner of this photo said she didn't like Hilary Clinton, but she couldn't trust Barak Obama because his middle name is Hussein and he'd done some of his schooling in Indonesia. Sigh.

Necropolis of Thebes and Valley of Kings