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egypt, may 2006
please view my galleries of photographs from our recent trip to egypt, which included cairo, luxor, and alexandria. clicking on a link to open a gallery will launch a new browser window, so please turn off "pop-up blocker" if you have it activated. |
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| 01-mosques
| during the 7 total days we spent in cairo, egypt's capital city, we visited numerous mosques dating back over 1100 years. in this gallery you'll see images of some of the largest, oldest, or most beatiful mosques that egypt has to offer.
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| 02-giza
| probably the most awe-inspiring and spectacular portion of the trip (thankfully, because that's how anxious i was to see them!), the great pyramids of giza are amazing. they're huge! and one of the only things that you can think when you see them is, "how did they build these things?!"
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| 03-temples
| throughout all of egypt, there are pharaonic remains of temples built for different reasons. the pyramids and the tombs of the valley of kings were burial sites, but temples, such as the habu and karnak temples found in this gallery, we're built to honor the gods.
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| 04-habr
| well, by now, you're probably thinking that habr is another arabic word for something, or a different temple, like habu. but it's not... it's just a cute little acronym i made up for pictures from the "hot air balloon ride" we took.
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| 05-misc
| there was so much to see and do in egypt, that everything couldn't possibly fit into the above categories. in the miscellaneous gallery, you'll see pictures of things like the only modern architecture we saw as well as other random places and tourist traps that we visited while in egypt.
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| panorama
| the panoramic image above is a series of eight images stitched together by a free program called autostitch. the images were shot from the top of "cairo tower," a 613 foot tall observation tower on the east bank of the nile river. click on the link at left to open a new window with a larger scrollable version of the same panorama. just so you know, it's big and may take a while to download.
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| information
| if you have any questions at all about the pictures or the subject matter of these pictures, please feel free to contact me at contact@elswifterino.com. in addition, i have much more of my photography on display on my flickr page at the following address: http://flickr.com/photos/elswifterino/sets.
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