We started the day with another felucca ride -a bit cooler than the last time. Then we spent nearly 5 hours at the Egyptian museum, an extensive collection of 7000 years of history of one nation. No photos. But it's set out in a very old style, lots of relics in glass cases with small or no labels. They are building a new one, and I hope they'll put in more chairs.
We ate in the bus, then drove through town to 'garbage city', a section of the city whose residents - mostly Coptic Christians - sort rubbish. They have excavated a huge church (10, 000 capacity) out of the sandstone mountain.
Now we are back and getting ready for another boat dinner, this time with belly dancing. Tomorrow morning we will leave the Marriott, do Giza, and in the evening fly to Sharm el Sheik on the Gulf of Aquaba, to prepare for our assault on Mt Sinai. Don't know when I'll be back.
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