Giza with Sayed

We went to Giza to the pyramids!!!! It was Sayed's first trip there but it was my 4th so I felt like an expert :) But we did go into the burial chamber of the Khafra pyramid - something I had never dared to do before. We wanted to go into the Khufu pyramid but they ran out of tickets while we were waiting in line.
But the BEST part about this trip to the pyramids was that we had out marriage papers and I got to pay the EGYPTIAN price to get in. It rocked my world. 5EGP instead of 60EGP.

In Aswan

Here we are in Aswan.
On the boat.
And then in a restaurant called the Aswan Moon. They have the BEST eggplant and tomato stew at that place. It's called mosa3a.

Sayed and Asharaf

This is Sayed with his brother Asharaf. They work together hauling tourists around Aswan in the feluca or the motor boat. Sayed built a house for Ahsaraf over the last couple of years and they are very close. Now Asharaf has to find somebody to marry. Sayed is not going to help him with that :)

More pictures of Sayed

Sayed had never really been to Cairo. Well, he did go once, 15 years ago. He hadn't been back since. But when he came with me he quickly became an expert. He had the metro system memorized after the first ride and now he advises people in his village about how to get to places in Cairo :)
Here we are on one of the bridges over the Nile. At a restaurant on a rooftop at the King Hotel in Dokki, and here is Sayed in our cheap but pretty hotel with a view of the museum behind the square.

Around Cairo with Sayed and friends

These are from different places over the summer. My friend Lindsey met me in Cairo and stayed with me there while we both worked at the museum. She has been to Egypt several times, but has always lived a bit higher on the hog than I have. Because of this, I was able to show her a few things that rich tourists usually don't see. Mostly things you wouldn't want to see, heh heh, but here are a couple of pictures from Al Azhar Park. It was Sayed's first visit to the park too and everybody LOVED it!
I am also including a picture of me, Sayed, and Barkat from a hooker bar in Cairo that Barakat insisted on going to. He wanted to drink beer and smoke sheesha and see women. So we went to this hole in the wall that I am SURE had never seen a female tourist before. I was surprised at how the prostitutes fawned over Sayed :)