We have a flight directly from Berlin. It is late morning and visibility is good.

My parents are ready to board the plane

Berlin shortly after take-off...

... and a little bit later

Passing the Alps

Egypt desert

River Nile. One can see all the irrigation canals glimmering in the sun

Nile close to Luxor

Red Sea Mountains close to Luxor

Short stop in Luxor, the former Thebes, the ancient capitol city of Egypt

It was a nice resort at the beach with fresh water pools (one of them heated) with pool bars and restaurants and build in oriental style

Sunset at the desert viewed from the hotel

Hurghada is a very ugly little city with nothing interesting in it. We did a sight seeing tour and all we were shown was buildings under construction, unpaved and dirty roads, some shops and the beach.

Approaching Hurghada

Visiting a shipyard

A mosque

Water pipes in a shop

Beach views

Dirty unpaved roads

The Red Sea mountains

I wanted to see the desert so I booked a trip into the desert on quads. We rode about one hour to a bedouin village, had a cup of tea, watched the camels and went back.

Tom ready to go

Bedouin children with a nice toy

A camel waiting for riders

Colorful clothing

When in Egypt then visit Cairo. So I booked a flight from Hurghada to Cairo to see the Pyramids and Sphinx, Tutankhamun and the Citadel of Salah Al-Din. Great day. But I managed to leave the camera at home. So no pictures of the day.

But I was there. Here are the tickets

And thanks to the GNU Free Documentation license there are pictures I can show from Wikimedia The Pyramids of Giza

The Sphinx of Giza

The mask of Tutankhamun's mummy

The citadel of Salah Al-Din

The flight back was a day flight so I hoped to see a little bit of the desert, of Cairo and Alexandria and the Alps. But most of the time there have been clouds.

Desert and Red Sea mountians shortly after take-off. One can see the shelters of the military part of Hurghada airport

El Gouna Resort

Diver's paradise

Greek islands

Greek Mountains close to Thessaloniki

Berlin received us with snow and temperatures below freezing.