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(51,580 posts)sister and I) went with Abercrombie and Kent, which is a high-class tour provider. I couldn't have afforded it except that last year they ran 50% off on trips to Egypt. We were there when Morsi issued his decree, taking over more power and the first of many protests were held on Tahrir Square. We could actually see the lights and hear the crowd from the balcony of our hotel on the last night we were in Cairo.
Cairo is like nothing I'd seen before. Masses of cars and buses along with horse and buggies, herds of goats and flocks of geese. Very congested and very poor. I could have spent a couple of days at the Museum.
We flew to Aswan to see Abu Simbel and the dams. Then got on the Sanctuary Sun Boat IV for our cruise down the Nile. We stopped at several temples and on to Luxor. After the temples of Luxor and Karnak, we crossed the Nile to the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens.
I'd have loved to have stayed in Luxor for a month or so. I'm nuts about archaeology and Egyptology. We were in the second tallest pyramid at Giza, in King Tut's tomb, and saw and touched stuff 5,000 years old.
I'm terribly concerned about the country and how it may effect our ability to travel there again. I feel the same about multiple places around the globe. Want to see as much as I can before it's too late.