從塞得港到開羅 （1）

Quite some time ago, we went on a cruise on Norwegian Sun to Egypt.  

If I had to guess, I'd say probably the first introduction of many people to Egypt is through a picture of the pyramids. Going to Egypt, for an uninitiated person like me anyway, is synonymous with going to see the pyramids.  The most famous Egyptian pyramids are those found at Giza on the outskirts of Cairo.  I didn't know this until I started researching for the trip. I wasn't totally ignorant, of course; I knew many pyramids were located in a huge Egyptian desert.  Don't pyramids show up all the time in pictures and movies with a stern looking guy in Arab garb riding high on a camel marching up a sand dune bathed in the glow of the setting sun? Well, that was the sort of image the mention of the pyramids would unfailingly conjure up in my mind anyway. 

About Cairo my knowledge did not extend far beyond the fact that it was a huge city and that it happened to be the capital of Egypt. I probably would not be able to tell a picture of Cairo from a picture of, say, Istanbul or Karachi.  Pyramids and Cairo were not connected in my mind other than that they were both in Egypt and that I would not have the bragging rights for saying I've been to Egypt unless I had both of them covered on this trip. It was indeed a pleasant surprise, therefore, a surprise offered by Google Map, that the most famous Egyptian pyramids are literally a stone's throw from Cairo. When we reach Cairo, we reach those pyramids; we could kill two birds with one stone.

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• 好像荒漠中的金字塔旁邊就是城市啊？這個組合真是稀罕：） -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2021 postreply 13:01:35

• 可不，我們沒研究行程前也不知道這麽近。 -ibelieu- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2021 postreply 13:56:42

• The pyramids look great against the modern architecture. Did you -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2021 postreply 17:53:16

• see The Temple of Dendur in Egypt? : ) -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2021 postreply 17:53:36

• Ha, ha; I have visited the Met quite a few times, though. :） -ibelieu- ♀ (854 bytes) () 09/27/2021 postreply 18:26:44

• 言兄睿智，沒有掉進這個陷阱問題裏。我開個玩笑哈，哈哈。大都會這個好像是從埃及一磚一瓦拆回來的。 -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (140 bytes) () 09/27/2021 postreply 20:20:23

• 是，為了感謝美國幫著建阿斯旺水壩和 -ibelieu- ♀ (53 bytes) () 09/28/2021 postreply 08:32:48

• 金字塔周圍不會是people mountain people sea吧 -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/28/2021 postreply 09:13:23

• 人真不多，我們去時埃及時局動蕩，旅遊業 -ibelieu- ♀ (271 bytes) () 09/28/2021 postreply 10:06:56

• 恭喜Ibelieu。首頁進來，謝謝網管，從塞得港到開羅 （1）推薦成功 -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/28/2021 postreply 18:58:57

• 謝謝斑竹鼓勵！ -ibelieu- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/28/2021 postreply 19:35:25