Back home safe and sound

Well, all good things must come to an end. We arrived back in Milwaukee around 4:00 after having been up for 47+ hours with only cat napping to keep us going. It was a marathon series of flights and layovers in order to get back home from Cairo. All of our flights were completely filled, not an empty seat to be had!

The trip was an incredible experience. We journeyed back to 5,000 years BC and then into a very present day Egypt, with the people voting on a new constitution on the day we were departing. We were reminded that Egypt has only been a republic since 1952. Until then it had ruled by royal families of Kings and Queens!

To answer questions around safety - we never for one moment felt unsafe! The Egyptian government goes out of it way to keep tourists safe as tourism accounts for the largest per capita share of their country's income. Everyone, i.e. our travel company (Galaxy Myriad Travel), the hotel staff, the tourism police, the restaurant staff and the shopkeepers, all bent over backwards to do whatever they could to insure we had an enjoyable and memorable trip.

We made new friends with our tour group and will always cherish our time spent with them. Our guide Ibraham, was the best. His knowledge of Egyptology was excellent and he always kept things light with his jokes. Yalla yalla Ibraham! Our tour director Moe, is a first class person who slept little as he was always thinking and planning ahead for the next day's activities. He did his very best to meet everyone's requests and did an exemplary job in providing our group with the very best in hotels, food, service, sights, and sounds of his native Egypt. Moe - many kudos to you and your staff!

If you ever have the chance to visit, we would highly recommend you make the trip.

Thanks for reading our blog which we will become part of our ongoing travel journal.

Shukran,
Dave and Jan