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Flight back to Cairo and the Cairo Museum

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01/25/2018 Another early morning.  Wake up call at 3:45 a.m. and luggage out by 4:00 a.m.  We had breakfast in a bag, and driven to the Luxor airport for a flight to back to Cairo at 7:30.  The flight was delayed 1 hour, and the traffic in Cairo and Giza was very bad.  We stopped at the Pyramid Restaurant in Giza for lunch--another awful Egyptian meal. We arrived at the Mena House Hotel at 3:30 p.m. (another 11 hour traveling day).  We were both spent.  Tom fell asleep, I had a hot bath and caught up on my emails and log book.  We went to the restaurant for dinner and had another bad meal, and called it quits for tonight. 01/26/2018 Wake up call at 6:15.  Breakfast at 6:30, and bus left at 7:00 for the Citadel and the Mosque in Cairo.  I was about a 1/2 hour drive.  The complex was very large and my legs would not move.  Tom and I both stayed on the bus.  Here a two pictures of the Citadel and the view of Ca...