从塞得港到开罗 （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边就是城市啊？这个组合真是稀罕：） -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2021 postreply 13:01:35

• 可不，我们没研究行程前也不知道这么近。 -ibelieu- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2021 postreply 13:56:42

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

• see The Temple of Dendur in Egypt? : ) -盈盈一笑间- ♀ (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，没有掉进这个陷阱问题里。我开个玩笑哈，哈哈。大都会这个好像是从埃及一砖一瓦拆回来的。 -盈盈一笑间- ♀ (140 bytes) () 09/27/2021 postreply 20:20:23

• 是，为了感谢美国帮着建阿斯旺水坝和 -ibelieu- ♀ (53 bytes) () 09/28/2021 postreply 08:32:48

• 金字塔周围不会是people mountain people sea吧 -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/28/2021 postreply 09:13:23

• 人真不多，我们去时埃及时局动荡，旅游业 -ibelieu- ♀ (271 bytes) () 09/28/2021 postreply 10:06:56

• 恭喜Ibelieu。首页进来，谢谢网管，从塞得港到开罗 （1）推荐成功 -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/28/2021 postreply 18:58:57

• 谢谢斑竹鼓励！ -ibelieu- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/28/2021 postreply 19:35:25