MYSTIC EGYPT

We leave the steamer for a train trip. Strange Egyptian scenes roll by. Then Cairo, water wheels as buffalo power, camel transport and flat fertile fields. Then Cairo. We visit the Citadel and Mosque of Mohammed Ali. A camel jaunt to the pyramids and sphinx and its Colossus of Rameses II. Cafe life, a sugar soda fountain, and general East of Suez sails our ship to Djiboutil. Dark-skinned boys dive for coins, street handicrafts here include hand weaving, machine sewing and barbering. A great market specializes in firewood. Irrigation farming and a most simple goat dairy. War dances