Iconic Cairo, 2 October 2018

We are in Cairo, Egypt at last, or at least, exiting the airport. A 13-hour flight from SFO to Istanbul on Turkish Airlines, which was quite nice for economy (some of our group flew business class). Both Barney and I slept a bit, and we arrived with plenty of time for our transfer to the plane to Cairo. By the time we arrived in Cairo it was about 11am Oakland time, but it was the day after we left, the 1st of October. We got our visas, met with the group, went through customs, found our luggage, and porters got our bags to the bus. Our tour director, Hassan, greeted us and gave us a briefing, including that the bus would have a police escort to the hotel and a security guide rides on the bus, always. We arrive at the hotel and fall into bed … it has been a long two days. And we have a view of the Nile from our window, which is pretty cool.