Christmas in Cairo (day 1)

For a short holiday break we thought we should go someplace warm, someplace where we had never been, and see the sights. We decided on Cairo and planned an intensive week of seeing the requisite tourist sights.

Booking on Turkish Airlines from Tbilisi through Istanbul to Cairo, we got to the airport for our 5:30 a.m. departure to find that our outbound flight had been cancelled. Thank you Turkish Airlines and Travelocity.

It was only because the morning Lufthansa flight to Munich was two hours late that we got out, with a new routing of Tbilisi-Munich-Cairo (Egypt Air for the second leg). And so, we had a nice six-hour layover in the snow in Munich.

Arriving in Cairo, it was definitely not snowing.

We made our way to our vaguely pyramid-shaped hotel,

which was decked out Christmas festive,

and also nicely appointed with the important comforts.

The next morning we headed out of town to Saqqara to see the Step Pyramid of Djoser and to visit some ancient tombs.

We then headed back into Cairo to see the more famous Giza pyramid complex.

Even though the pyramids were spectacular, the sights along the way and through the city were just as interesting.