Egypt 1987 - 2017

Egypt
1987 - 2017

Pyramids at Giza

Suez Canal - Suez Canal Military - Cairo 2013 - Cairo - Luxor - Aswan - Abu Simbul

Suez Canal - 2017

Sunrise over the Sinai Peninsula

Fishermen in the canal

The Sinai Peninsula

Qantara

Qamtara ferry number 2

Fishing boats

Monument to the Egyptian Army crossing of the canal on October 6, 1973

The first bridge over the canal

Fishing boats

Swing railroad bridge

Mosque on the banks

War memorial - in the shape of a bayonet on an AK-47 assault rifle

Ship entering the Great Bitter Lake

Newly opened second canal from the Great Bitter Lake north

Burned out Israeli military vehicle

Ships in the canal

Texting

Second canal heading north

Two way traffic north of the Great Bitter Lake

U.S. military equipment

Great Bitter Lake traffic

Canal traffic control station

Local construction

Ferries moving commercial traffic across the canal

Container ship approaching Suez City and the southern terminus of the canal

Ships exiting the southern terminus

Mosque in Suez City at the southern terminus

Southern terminus

Local service boat in Suez City

Suez Canal Military - 2017

Egyptian-built Russian-designed armed Mi-8T (NATO: Hip C) assault helicopter of the Egyptian Air Force over the Sinai Peninsula

Al-Firdan SA-2 (NATO: Guideline) site - 32°42'47"N 032°18'49"E
P-18 (NATO: Spoon Rest D) target acquisition radar.

Al-Firdan SA-2 (NATO: Guideline) site - 32°42'47"N 032°18'49"E
SA-2 surface-to-air missile associated SNR-75 (NATO: Fan Song E) fire control radar - note two of the six missiles on launchers

Location of the SA-2 site

Satellite imagery of the SA-2 site

Egyptian Navy minehunter al-Faruq (524) - former US Navy Osprey-class minehunter - in the Great Bitter Lake

Russian-made PMP pontoon bridge unit

Tactical tugs of a pontoon bridging unit

Pontoon bridging unit

Tactical tugboats

Prepositioned pontoon bridge sections

Assembled pontoon sections - note tactical tugs and red propulsion screws

Observation tower

Observation unit

Military bunkers

Soldiers seeking shade

Kabrit air base (British World War II facility)

Southern terminus of the canal - the entire area is a military zone

Cairo - 2013

General 'Abd al-Fatah al-Sisi - Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Commander in Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces

Amr Moussa ('Amru Musa) - former Secretary General of the Arab League and former Minister of Foreign Affairs

Pope Tawadros II - head of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria

Armored personnel carrier on the Alexandria desert highway

Armored personnel carrier outside a hotel

Armored personnel carrier outside a government office

M-1 Tank at highway checkpoint

F-4 display at the entrance to Cairo West air base

Cairo West air base

An air force facility in town - the army and air force flags

The Ministry of Defense Language Institute (the Arabic reads Armed Forces Language Institute)
Note the logo using the Rosetta Stone - the US Defense Language Institute does as well

Reviewing stand where President Anwar al-Sadat was assassinated in 1981

The Army Infantry Department

Mural depicting the infantry

The Army Armor Department

Mural depicting the armor - "Victory or Martydom" - dating back to 8 December 1828

Mural depicting the crossing of the Suez Canal on October 6, 1973 - note graffitt painted over

Mural depicting the 1270 BC Battle of Qadesh (Kadesh) between Ramses II and the Hittites near what is now al-Qusayr, Syria

Armored personnel carrier at one of the entrances to Tahrir (Liberation) Square

Tahrir Square - rear of the Egyptian National Museum - note covered graffiti

Tahrir Square

Graffiti calling General al-Sisi (note use of Latin letters C C for his name) a pig, a feast lamb (to be slaughtered) and a traitor

Graffiti demanding that former President Mursi leave

Poster calling on rebels to come out on June 30 to Union Square to bring down the rule of the [Muslim] Brotherhood

Nile River

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (right)

Typical apartment building in Cairo

Cairo traffic - the lines on the road are merely suggestions

Fresh fruit juice maker

The "Immediate" cash and carry store

The al-Shubrawi restaurant

A well-regarded university in the region

Old and new

Leaving Cairo

Sunset

Every hotel room has al-qiblah - the direction of Mecca

Egyptian television - she is interviewing a guest by phone about an investment conference in Sharm al-Shaykh

Egyptian visa

Cairo

Pyramids at Giza

Sphinx and pyramid

Step pyramid at Saqqara (south of Cairo)

Cairo and the Nile - the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the tall building on the left

The Nile River in Cairo - the split-mast sailing boats are falukahs

The Nile River in Cairo

Cairo Citadel and the mosque of Muhammad 'Ali

The grave of the former Shah of Iran - in a mosque in the citadel

Egyptian National Museum

Golden mask of Tutankhamen

Golden sarcophogus of Tutankhamen

Golden chair of Tutankhamen

Chair of Tutankhamen

Crown with the symbols of Lower and Upper Egypt

Tutankhamen jewelry

Luxor

Our ride to Luxor - Air Sinai

Luxor and the Nile River from the air

Luxor airport

The Nile River at Luxor

Entrance to Karnak on the east bank of the Nile

Karnak

Valley of the Kings - west bank of the Nile

Entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb

Temple of Hatshepsut

Valley of the Kings

Local houses near the Valley of the Kings - descendants of tomb raiders?

Local houses near the Valley of the Kings

Alabaster factory

Aswan

Aswan airport

First cataract on the Nile

Nile - on top of the hill is the mausoleum of the Aga Khan III

Aswan and the Nile

The Oberoi Aswan Hotel

The famed Pullman Cataract Hotel

Falukah

Falukah - best way to see the temple at Philae

Elephantine Island and the Temple at Philae

Temple at Philae

Local house in Aswan

Lake Nasser - formed by the Aswan High Dam

Lake Nasser

Electrical power from the dam

Aswan High Dam

Generators at the Aswan High Dam

Abu Simbul

Lake Nasser near Abu Simbul

Abu Simbul airport - the temples of interest are in the lower center of the photo

The twin temples were originally carved out of the mountainside during the reign of Pharaoh Ramses II in the 13th century BC, as a lasting monument to himself and his queen Nefertari, to commemorate his alleged victory at the Battle of Kadesh (1270 BC). The complex was relocated in its entirety in 1968, on an artificial hill made from a domed structure, high above the Aswan High Dam reservoir. The relocation of the temples was necessary to avoid their being submerged during the creation of Lake Nasser, the massive artificial water reservoir formed after the building of the Aswan High Dam on the Nile River.

Temples of Abu Simbul - large to the left, small to the right

Temple of Ramses II

Temple of Nefartari