“I can’t keep such a solemn face as her,”
Virginia said about the Great Sphinx, one of
the most iconic structures in the world.
“My hand touching perhaps the greatest
structure on earth,” Virginia said of Egypt’s
Great Pyramid. “How many thousands of years
of hands have reached for those stones?”
“We boated by falukah (traditional sail boat) and then
changed boats in the middle of the Nile to a motor
boat which could handle the cataracts (rapids) to get
to a remote spot on the banks of the Nile to meet yet
another camel string,” Virginia said. Tami had already
pushed herself beyond her comfort zone by walking the
tiny plank to board the boat, but went the extra mile
when they mounted camels again.