Alexandria to Cairo to Luxor

The elegant Victorian Alexandria train station.

Inside the station. The cars are old and worn, and the ride was rough and bumpy - impossible to knit or read.

Women arriving from the country to sell produce and items at the market.

Houses along the way - with the inevitable laundry.

The train took us through the irrigated terrain, with lots of small produce plots, and housing in the background.

The end of this trip - the Cairo train station.

And the start of the next trip - Cairo airport. Next stop: Luxor.

From the aircraft window - the Nile, with irrigated land on either side, and an abrupt shift to desert.

The elegant Luxor airport.

And our modern Luxor hotel - this is one of the lobbies.

The walkway to the dining room where we had a huge buffet breakfast.

The view from our hotel room window.