Day 12 – Thursday, March 2: Luxor-Cairo Flight, Egyptian Museum
Today we flew back to Cairo from Luxor. We enjoyed a beautiful breakfast on the Nile River before we loaded the bus and drove to the airport. The weather today in Cairo was in the 80s, a little cooler than 90 yesterday.
National Egyptian Museum
We landed in Cairo about 11:15. After loading the bus with our luggage, we drove towards downtown Cairo. We passed by the Citadel and the mosque of Mohammed Ali. We enjoyed a great lunch on the Nile River (again) on the way to the National Egyptian Museum. While the new Grand Museum is still not complete yet (two years delayed), we saw many artifacts here. This included some of there King Tut collections, a few mummies, statutes of Ramses II, Amenhotep II (the likely pharaoh of the Exodus), Thutmose III, the Merneptah Stele, the Amarna Letters, and the head and sphinx of Hatshepsut, to name just a few. The colors of some of the artifacts (e.g. the “sitting scribe”) were astonishing! We spent a little over two hours there.
“We flew from Luxor to Cairo today. Following a good flight and great lunch overlooking the Nile River, we visited the Egyptian Museum. It was incredible to see all the statutes and artifacts! A number of them connect to the Bible!”
We drove to our very nice 5+ hotel (the Conrad). We checked in and had some free time before a later dinner. We have one more day tomorrow here in Cairo. This includes the pyramids!
Day 13 – Friday, March 3: Memphis, Sakkara, the Pyramids, Sphinx
