We packed our bags and said goodbye to the Marriott, then headed to old Cairo, the Coptic area. These people are descendants of the ancient Egyptians and are mostly Christian. We visited St Mary's hanging church, C4, and Sts Sergius and Bacchus church, the 2nd and oldest churches in Egypt. The latter was built over a cave said to have been inhabited by the Holy Family when they fled from Herod. We also went to a no-longer-used synagogue. We headed to Giza by way of a papyrus making shop.
The pyramids are the great tourist attraction you would expect- people, peddlers, animals- but they are huge and solid and ancient.
We climbed on the big one, patted the third and admired the second from a distance. We went to the sphinx and temple and it was time to go. Stopped at an Egyptian cotton shop on the way out.
We had been booked on a plane at 17:45, but it was cancelled, so we changed to 19:15. We loaded up, bussed for miles around the tarmac, started out to the runway and stopped. There was a problem with the plane, so they bussed us back, we waited, they bussed us out again and we took off at 20:30. Sharm el Sheik is a tourist diving resort popular with Brits, Russians and Italians. Its a hard life.
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