BEAUTI photography

Now that I’ve posted about our stopover in Cairo, I wanted to added a few from Qatar as well.  We had fabulous Canadian hosts who were the greatest guides (shopping, eating and other interesting sites!) of their city.  Thank you for your wonderful hospitality, it was awesome to see and experience this country and culture and to see where you call home.

Starting off with shopping centres ~ Villagio is now the most beautiful mall that we have ever been in, so pretty…I loved the detail and design of the buildings + doorways over there.

We spent a morning at the souq (market) ~ SO interesting, and you can find pretty much everything here!

Out to see the sand dune and the Gulf…

On our way home from Afrika in early March, it worked out for us to spend one day in Cairo before we continued on to Qatar for a few days.  We organized a hotel right by the airport and an afternoon tour to the Giza Pyramids before we left home.  The oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.  I’m not posting these images because they do justice to how massive, gigantic, enormous the pyramids truly are…they are so big that it makes you want to start making up words.  I think only your eyes can really get that true image.  But they are amazing, and it’s incomprehensible how they built with stones of this size at these heights.  We viewed the 3 pyramids at Giza, walked thru the passage inside of the Second Pyramid to view a chamber and saw the Sphinx and enjoyed the barren, desert landscape with pyramids on the horizon.

The traffic in Cairo is UNBELIEVABLE!  We’ve travelled in countries that have insane traffic but we were frightened in Cairo.  Never been in so many “nearly-accidents” in our lives.  If there’s meant to be 4 lanes of traffic (which there isn’t always painted lines), it will be 8 vehicles wide on the road and just inches between cars.  A lot (most) of vehicles have scrapes down the sides, dents, mirrors torn off…it’s an adventure to drive across the city!

The Great Pyramid ~ 137m in height and the largest Egyptian pyramid From photographs I envisioned that you could walk up these pyramids like steps, this was taken a couple levels up from the bottom of the Great Pyramid.

Sphinx ~ the head (wisdom) of man and body (strength) of a lion