We have an adventure-filled day in Cairo, visiting the Egyptian Museum, taking part in a protest, enjoying a great lunch, and finishing off our day visiting the pyramids and sphinx.
We started our day with a quick visit to the Alabaster Mosque, which is also adjacent ot the palace of Muhammad Ali of Egypt (not the boxer, but the Ottoman who is the founder of modern Egypt).
We were not allowed to take our cameras into the museum, but we had an amazing visit there. It's the ultimate in museums, filled with the most-amazing Egyptian treasures, including King Tut's treasures. We also saw scores of mummies, burial coffins, artwork, gold, jewelry...just about anything that you would expect to see in this kind of museum.
We are approached, over and over again by countless locals. They hugged us, thanked us for being there and were absolutely delightful. We were a part of history in-the-making.
Fire tore through a seven-storey Interior Ministry building in central Cairo on Feb 22, 2011 during demonstrations by Egyptian policemen seeking better pay and working conditions.
A ministry source said the fire was probably linked to the demonstrations, without elaborating.
But some witnesses said the protests had been peaceful and accused the officials of using the protests as cover to burn potentially incriminating documents.
I started to go into the pyramid, but I chickened-out at the last minute. The coridor leading down to the tomb was about 4 feet high, and for someone who suffers from any kind of clastrophobia this is not the place to visit!