Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Our Egypt Vacation - Day 1

Ever since our stay in Oman from 2002, we’ve been planning to visit Egypt. We’ve even bought the guide book in 2003 but the trip never materialize until recently. In fact, we almost canceled the trip due to recent bombing in Khan Al Khalili in Feb. We adjusted our itinerary from spending full week just in Cairo to a week visiting major cities of Egypt, following the classical tour of Egypt.

We travelled with QS44 and made arrangement with a travel agent based in Egypt. All our transport, tour guide and hotels were arranged made with Mr. Maghrapy, the service was excellent and highly recommended.

We arrived in Cairo around midday and our program will only start on the next day. During the evening, we made arrangement to see the Pyramid light show. It was just a so-so show but it gives me opportunity to test the high ISO setting of the 5D Mark II. The photo below was taken with ISO 25,600 but has been clean up using Noise Ninja.

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After the show, we bought some take-away from one of the popular Shawarma joint in Cairo.

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Day 2 will be about pyramids and Cairo.

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