Our last day. The Hanging Church and the Cairo museum.

The Hanging Church, a Coptic Orthodox church, really is suspended between two towers.

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Hanging between towers

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The Hanging Church

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The Hanging Church

It would take days (months, actually) to see the collection of the Egyptian museum.

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The Cairo Museum

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Lotus Blossom

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Cairo sunset

What a wonderful vacation.

Comments:

Is the first picture supposed to fit its caption? I don't get it.

Posted by John Cowan on 21 Nov 2007 @ 03:05am UTC #

Sorry, John, some explanation is probably in order. That's a photo of a "window" placed in the floor of the Hanging Church through which one can see that it's suspended above an open space.

If there's a vantage point from which to see the towers with the church suspended between them, I never saw it.

Posted by Norman Walsh on 21 Nov 2007 @ 03:34am UTC #
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