Many thanks. This was a very subtle trick, and I am grateful for your warning.

A terrific set! Thank you very much.

I learned something new from your pictures and commentary. Thank you, Moshe, for sharing. Stay safe.

Great, great picture. Enjoyed it very much. Thanks.

Congratulations! A superb set.

I lived in Egypt for five years and before that must've visited it perhaps 20 times for the World Bank. One really needs a wide-angle lens much more than a telephoto one. I think that 28 MM is not wide enough for the many, many interiors you will photograph; something like 18 to 20 would be better. My go to lens for the most part was 24-120 on a full frame Nikon, with a 16-35 in a belt bag. Egypt is a wonderful place, and the Egyptians are generally the most friendly persons. Have a great trip!

Thank you. That looks like a pretty good appetizer before the main meal. Cheers.

A wonderful collection. Thank you so very much for sharing. Stay safe.

A terrific set of photographs. Thank you so much for sharing. I have visited Egypt's Valley of the Kings seven or eight times, but never taken a balloon ride over it (spent too much time underground in the tombs). You have inspired me to do that on my next visit. Thank you once again.

A really beautiful set. Congratulations. Your photos show how brilliantly painted the temples must have been originally. The images exposed to the Egyptian sun have caused the colors of outside images to fade. Those protected from the sun by being indoors or shaded by overhangs give one some idea of the brilliance of the originals. Thank you for sharing these images.

A great set of pictures! Thank you. I explored the top two levels of a part of the tunnel complex. I did not have the courage to get into the third level and probably to have to crawl. Imagine spending days holed up, living on a diet (as I was told) principally of cold rice, because the smoke from heating meals could give away the location, and all the time being bombed by 52's. I did not inquire about toilet facilities! My admiration also for the courage of those Allied soldiers who ventured into the tunnels without knowing where they led, what was around the next turn, and what traps had been laid.

Striking photographs! Congratulations. I hope you get to visit the Red Pyramid. To my mind it is the first "proper" pyramid and is beautiful. The builders of the "Bent Pyramid" evidently learned from their experiment, because the angle of the Red Pyramid follows the corrected angle of the Bent Pyramid. Keep your pictures coming!

Many thanks for the pictures. I lived in Cairo for more than five years, and your photos brought back many memories and a touch of nostalgia. I hope you have a great visit. Remember there is not a single Egypt. Just in Cairo you can visit Pharaonic Egypt, Coptic Egypt, Islamic Egypt, and modern Egypt. Each of these is worth studying (although of course not on just one visit!)

Congratulations! Great pictures. Looking at them, one feels that one is actually in Paris.

My wife had exactly the same experience, and the bank refunded the money. However, when the bank showed us the canceled check I saw that the original payee's name and amount had been whited over, and a new name and a huge amount substituted. The alteration was so blatant that I wondered how a teller could even think of cashing the check without making some inquiries. I wanted to know which bank had cashed the check. My bank told me that they could give this information only to the police.

I duly went to the police and reported the matter. To my amazement, their response was only a shrug and the remark that why was I bothering? I had been refunded the money. I told them that the case looked like a slamdunk. After all, when you cash a check for more than $5000 one has to show some identification; there are also security cameras in the paying-out bank which would have covered the transaction; and the bank would know which teller had been involved. The response was another shrug and the rather strange remark that a detective would visit the paying-out bank in due course. When I asked what "due course" meant, I was told that it could take three or four weeks. Of course by that time the content of the security cameras would likely to have been erased.

Am I being unduly cynical when I think that this type of incident would require the involvement of at least a bank teller in the paying-out bank, or even someone higher up in the chain? As for the police-response, I am completely baffled. To add to my disappointment, I was told by the manager of my bank (different from my wife's) that in the last six months he had dealt with two such incidents in his branch (involving the removal from the home's letterbox of an envelope containing a check.) In neither case had the police taken any action. Our mailman advised us to (a) not put checks or cash in home letterboxes for collection by the mailman; and (b) not even to put up the metal flag attached to the mailbox that tells the mailman that there is outgoing mail to be collected.