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Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

AT#255 - Photo Tour of Egypt

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2010

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Chris, the Amateur Traveler himself, talks about the recent Ralph Velasco / Amateur Traveler Photo Tour of Egypt which was a guided tour of Egypt run by Cosmos. The tour started in Cairo with the Pyramids and the Sphinx, the Egyptian museum, old mosques, churches and synagogues before moving on to the port city of Alexandria. After seeing the historic sites in Alexandria like Pompey’s Column and the Catacombs we continued on to the site of the battle of El Alamein and then to Marsa Matruh in the Northwest corner of Egypt on the Mediterranean. We continued back to Cairo with a stop at a Coptic Monastery and then flew to Aswan to tour Upper Egypt. We saw temples from the Greek period and the New Kingdom from Aswan to Luxor including the Temple to Ramses at Abu Symbel, the temple to Isis, the temple of Etfu, the Luxor temple and the great temple of Karnak. We also visited the Valley of the Kings and a Nubian village. Along the way we shopped and photographed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

0:08.1

in my passport photo.

0:10.7

Amateur Traveler episode 255. Today the amateur traveler talks about

0:17.1

temples and mosques and camels as we go to Egypt. Welcome to the

0:23.0

I sit in one more cafe.

0:26.0

I know that I should be heading home

0:29.0

but maybe not maybe not

0:31.0

to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. I'm not only going to be

0:37.2

talking about Egypt today I'm actually recording this episode sitting in a hotel in

0:41.8

Egypt as my trip. the amateur traveler photo trip to Egypt winds down.

0:47.0

Before I forget what happened here, I thought I'd give you a wrap-up.

0:51.0

For those of you who are new to the show this is a tour that I'm doing with

0:54.5

Ralph Velasco who's a travel photographer and it is probably for now at least the

0:59.8

last and first amateur traveler tour and that's mostly because of my new job really

1:05.8

precludes me from doing this. If you're interested in more information about the

1:09.2

particular trip that I've been doing and this is through Cosmos. You could find links to both Cosmos

1:13.9

and this particular tour, obviously without Ralph and I on it, at amateur traveler

1:19.8

dot com slash Cosmos or amateur traveler

1:23.0

dot com slash Egypt tour and that'll give you more information about this particular tour and how you could take it also if you hear something that's interesting for you.

1:33.2

So we'll be talking about Egypt,

1:34.6

and we talked about Egypt a long time ago

1:37.0

on the amateur traveler,

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