Luqman's Day 13 - Following the rule of "When in Rome," let me philosophize for a moment…As today we are basically sitting around waiting for tonight's flight, this blog is all about reflection. Since Egypt is the true home of philosophy and the world's earliest deep thinkers, I thought that I would end this leg of the trip by reflecting on what I have learned thus far, and also by looking ahead. I hope I don't get too spaced out for you, as I ha...

Day 12- Hannah Pain for Gain Our last day on the Egyptian tour started off with almost a heart attack for me. In the midst and hustle of our train ride and return to Cairo, I accidentally left my camera on the train. Unfortunately, I realized this only when we arrived back at the Indiana Hotel in Cairo. I hurriedly told my tour leader about my situation and he told me that there was probably no way th...

Luqman's Day 7 - 10,000 years in one day We are now on our first full day in Egypt, and I must say that it is jam-packed. We are expected to see history as it unfolded for over 10,000 years. Our schedule included a trip to the Pyramids of Giza, the Great Sphinx, and the Cairo museum. I admit that I wondered how we could condense so much into 24 hours, but I trusted that the tour company had done this once or twice, so I went on with it. We met downstairs on a...

Blog 6- flight to Egypt & arrival Let me start this blog off with a disclaimer:-I came down with some kind of stomach bug/pseudo cold on our last day in Rome and it seemed that sleep was the only medicine that worked. Thus, this blog is of a collaboration of things that I can remember from of the few hours I was actually awake and of my partner-in-crime's recollection of questions that I asked him. Okay now that I got out of the way, let's begin: ...