by kitty | Sunday, May 25th, 2025 | Africa, Egypt, Middle East
Today, we took the “Pyramids, Memphis, & Sakkara” tour. The tour met at 6AM, so we woke before any reasonable time and drug ourselves to the buses. The bus ride was about 2 1/2 hours to Memphis. In the Sakkara necropolis, we saw the Step Pyramid of...
by kitty | Saturday, May 24th, 2025 | Africa, Egypt, Middle East
Today, we took the “Best of Alexandria” tour. We walked through the catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa. We then took a short ride to Pompey’s Pillar, which actually honors Diocletian, and the Roman Amphitheater. We toured the Library of Alexandria –...
by kitty | Friday, May 16th, 2025 | Middle East, Turkey
We flew in to Istanbul (Constantinople) and stayed at the Orientbank Hotel Istanbul – which was fantastic. Breakfast each morning was substantial. We started at Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya), but the line was so long, we went to the Basilica Cistern. Afterwards, we...
by kitty | Thursday, December 5th, 2024 | Central America, Panama
The Gamboa Rainforest Resort is located in the 55,000-acre Soberania National Park which is adjacent to the Panama Canal and near the historic Chagres River. We went to a Sloth Preserve and got to see sloths and an anteater....
by kitty | Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024 | Colombia, South America
San Felipe Castle La Serrezuela is a unique shopping mall built around an old theater and bullring. The bullring opened in 1930 and could host 4,000 spectators for bullfights. In 1935, it became the Circus Theater (Circo Teatro) after a redesign that allowed cinema...
