Red Sea Cruise – Egypt, Jordan & Sinai – Jan. 17 – Feb. 1, 2011

     An auspicious beginning to this adventure began in Chico when all flights to San Francisco were canceled because of fog.  Since my plane for Egypt left the following morning, I rented a cab and flew from Redding which wasn’t fogged in.  
     After staying overnight at the Cairo, Egypt airport, we took the train to Alexandria where a bus picked us up and took us for a mini city tour (including the site of the Lighthouse which was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World) before we checked into our hotel on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
     Before we visited El Alamein, the site of one of the turning points in WWII, we stopped for a tour of the very modern Alexandria Biblioteca (library) designed by a Norwegian architect.   On our way back to Cairo we had armed guards in front and in back of the bus as we crossed the desert.