At the catacombs, we weren't allowed even to bring cameras onto to the site so I have no pictures of the sculpture outside, the sculpture inside the catacombs, the paintings, or the catacombs themselves. Rather frustrating. The catacombs were pretty cool with a tomb for a Roman sailor and a maze of other burial slots.
Next we went to "Pompey's Tower" which is actually a column built by Diocletian in the now destroyed Serapaeum. The column was really, really, really tall.
There was also a giant scarab sculpture on site and a Nilometer.
Next we visited Kom al-Dikka and this time we were able to get inside but I left my camera behind in the bus. It's a good thing I got pictures the day before!
We also went inside Kavafy's old house which is now a museum. A recording of Sean Connery reading some of Kavafy's poems in English translation played as we explored the various rooms.
Before lunch we drove all the way out to a former palace, drove through the gardens, got out long enough to take pictures at the gate, then drove back out. I don't think anyone was exactly sure why we took all that trouble to see a palace instead of going to the archaeology museum.
We had a lunch at a beautiful, sea-side hotel before returning to Cairo where the next morning we caught a flight back to Athens!
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