Day 38, 11 August 2012, Arrival at Giza Railway Station, transfer to Pyramids Park Resort, Cairo - After rocking and rolling the night away on the sleeper train from Luxor, we were at the hotel at 9.30 am and proceeded to the gorgeous pool - 95% of which was almost 8 feet deep. Figured this out after I jumped in the deep end. I cruised to the shallows with a gold medal doggy paddle and we whiled away an hour or two reading Egyptian "Insight" magazine - Cosmo lo...

Day 29, 2 August 2012, The Egyptian Museum, Midan Tahrir, Cairo - We set off reasonably early to walk to the Museum and arrived respectably 22 minutes after opening time at 9. Would have been earlier but a very friendly fellow just had to show us his perfume shop... We know, we know, we know not to go - but just over here he said. No No we said, and yet 2 corners and a 100 metres later, guess where we found ourselves. Pesky built in western politeness. We did...

Day 28, 1 August 2012, Nairobi (Kenya) to Cairo (Egypt), 4 hours 50 minutes via Egypt Air - Actual seat room in Economy. Don't tell anybody. Cairo is wonderful. Landing at an airport completely surrounded by sand is unusual and very (very) bright. We arrived into the middle of an Egyptian summer - 29 degrees at 8.30 am and intense humidity. So not unduly disagreeable - it is however baffling to the Egyptians we have met who have never experienced humidity li...