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WEEKS of FEBRUARY 16 & 23, 2004 |
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Snapshots from Cairo by Jeffrey Stanley Over the winter break, history department chair Rebecca Morrissey traveled a little further than most of us, vacationing for 16 days in Egypt with the perfect tour guide, her boyfriend, who has previously lived in Cairo and who speaks Arabic. She describes her visit to the Middle East as “absolutely beautiful, the trip of a lifetime.” “The sights in Egypt are something everyone should see,” says Morrissey. “I’ve always wanted to go, and this seemed like the opportune time. We took a five-day cruise down the Nile between Luxor and Aswan, stopping at some of the most incredible sights in all of Egypt. The temples at Luxor, Edfu, and Karnak and the Valley of the Kings are all absolutely breathtaking. I thought they couldn’t be topped until we visited Petra in Jordan—it’s where one of the Indiana Jones movies was filmed.”
Given today’s political climate, one might have expected a U.S. citizen traveling in that part of the world to feel a bit tense, but Morrissey had no such anxiety. “The thing that seemed to surprise most people about my trip was how safe I felt there. The Egyptian people are extremely friendly and inquisitive about American culture. I felt absolutely no hostility. I was able to talk openly with many Egyptians about politics, gender roles, movies.” Her biggest complaint about the trip is Cairo’s high level of pollution and the fact that “everyone smokes. I returned from only a four day stay in the city with a terrible cough!” Other features this week:
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