{"id":968,"date":"2007-12-23T23:11:30","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T05:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasontrefonas.com\/wordpress\/?p=968"},"modified":"2010-08-12T11:12:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T17:12:44","slug":"968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasontrefonas.com\/wordpress\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"Memphis, Saqqara, Cairo &#038; Giza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>into Alexandria early.  disembarked and met the private tour company that was to take me into Memphis and Saqqara, then on to Cairo and Giza.  Memphis and Saqqara were especially amazing and unexpected.  so many impressive sculptures, mostly of Rameses II, including the limestone colossus.  the pyramids abound in Saqqara, with the most interesting being Djoser&#8217;s Step Pyramid.  on to Cairo and Giza, where i was to see the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, the Sphinx, along with many other pyramids and ruins.  even went into the burial chamber of one of the larger pyramids.  definitely not a site to be missed in one&#8217;s lifetime!  on the way out of Cairo, stopped for a very nice meal and also a tour of a papyrus shop and a rug store.  back to the ship very late, and was able to drive by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina on the way out.  fascinating day, and glad to not have died on the Egyptian roads.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jasontrefonas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/PC220399.JPG\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/jasontrefonas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/PC220399.JPG\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>into Alexandria early. disembarked and met the private tour company that was to take me into Memphis and Saqqara, then on to Cairo and Giza. Memphis and Saqqara were especially amazing and unexpected. so many impressive sculptures, mostly of Rameses II, including the limestone colossus. the pyramids abound in Saqqara, with the most interesting being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasontrefonas.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasontrefonas.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasontrefonas.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasontrefonas.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasontrefonas.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/jasontrefonas.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"http:\/\/jasontrefonas.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasontrefonas.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasontrefonas.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasontrefonas.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}