The Egyptian Musuem

We started out in Egypt arriving in Cairo. After getting over the small miricle of getting picked up at the airport we were off to the Egyptian Musuem straight-away. We'll a bit of traffic in what appeared to be a parking lot, then a u-turn some security then the museum. I think Cairo traffic is so infamous the tour operators may do this on purpose to satisfy tourists. In any case the Egyptian museum was an interesting place to start, the densest collection of the best Egyptian artifacts ever found. You are at the mercy of your guide for interpretation, but the statues, sarcoughphagi? and the vast contents of King Tut's tomb are all on display. Mummies too, but for extra money, money you need for toilet paper, in the same grand museum. It really is a museum like no other with so much stuff it cannot really all be showcased properly, so they are building a new one (the Egyptian Musuem is more than 100 years old!)