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Cities: Houston to Cairo, Egypt (CAI): April 11-15, 2001

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JFK Airport | Boarding the B767-300 | The Cairo Airport | Driving to Giza | The Great Pyramids

April 11, 2001: John F. Kennedy International Airport - Terminal 5

The TWA check-in counter. A slightly diferent view of the check-in counter. To Baggage Claim and Gates. Another view of this great terminal. The Flight Information Display, note TW888 on the FIDS, it is the 7th. one down.
         
April 11, 2001: Boarding the Boeing 767-300 (N640TW)
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American Airlines (AA) Acquired TWA (TW) on April 10, 2001. As such, TWA now operates as TWA Airlines LLC. The airplanes were stenciled to denote that. Read more here. This is cool, a plaque dedicated to an employee was attached to the wall in the walkway. Interior views of the Trans World One First Class cabin.
         
April 12, 2001: Arriving in Cairo - The International Terminal
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Baggage Claim. After clearing immigration. Meeters and greeters. The International terminal from the parking lot. A distant view of the terminal.
         
April 12, 2001: Arriving in Cairo - One of the runways
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A Airbus A320 landing on of the runways near the international terminal.        
         
April 12, 2001: Arriving in Cairo - The Main Terminal
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A view of the main terminal as we drove by on our way to the city. More views. Yet another view.    
         
April 12, 2001: Arriving in Cairo - The drive to Giza
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    Another one of the many mosques of Cairo. This one is close to the biggest one, the Mohammad Aly Mosque (aka The Citadel). We were driving very close to everything, including this bus!
       
         
         
The Mohammad Aly Mosque, also know as the Citadel. You can see this mosque from all over Cairo.        
         
 
  This looks like a housting complex.  
         
April 12, 2001: Arriving in Cairo - The drive to Giza/ Sighting the Pyramids
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Our second sighting of the Pyramids as we approaced Giza. The first was from the airplane flying in The fields are that of carrots. In the last picture, you can see from your left, the Pyramid of King Mycerinus, then The Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops to the Greeks), the largest, and then finally, the Pyramid of King Chephren.
         
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