We used the opportunity of this school vacation to trip to Egypt. It's not all that close to Grenoble, but Grenoble is a lot closer than Canada. We woke up to this view out our window...
So, after breakfast, we decided to visit the Great Pyramid.
We also visited the boat museum
The main pyramid area involved lots of opportunities to interact with salespeople. Most of the way we were pursued by one guy pushing a camel ride on his camel named Bob Marley. When he was gone I had other opportunities. Saying I was from Italy was successful. The family followed me and were quite amused by our exchanges. Finally we surrendered to the salesman, and had him put David on a camel. It made for a great photo, and I tipped him 50 Egyptian pounds ($5).
Once he was gone, the touts were back. So, apparently having a a tout on your tail is also a good strategy. By then we had circled the pyramids and moved on to the adjoining Great Sphynx which was lower key.
We walked (!) back to the hotel where we saw some of real Cairo. We had a nice lunch and a swim.
This afternoon we went on a sunset horse trip to the desert near the Great Pyramid. It ended in some neighborhoods where we were very glad to have 2 Egyptian guides! We finished the evening back at the hotel with a Tex-Mex dinner.
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