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Searching for the Blockhouse, Part II, Egypt
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I had spent an enjoyable, but ultimately disappointing, couple of days searching the area west of El Alamein for the Blockhouse. I was still keen to find this surviving landmark from the final battle at El Alamein, but I was running out of ideas.
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Searching for the Blockhouse, Part I, Egypt
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Somewhere along the railway line, west of El Alamein, Egypt, stands an unremarkable, low concrete building. It was the scene of an extraordinary occurrence in 1942, when compassion and humanity prevailed over war’s chaos and carnage.
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El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt
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Australian families and towns will be forever connected to a dusty, sunburnt place far away on the other side of the world.
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Southbound Train, Egypt
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After some fascinating days exploring the Giza plateau, I booked a ticket on the southbound train to Luxor, the capital of the ancient Egyptian empire.
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Outside the Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
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Having spent the first day of my visit to the Pyramids of Giza getting a feel for the place, and venturing inside the Pyramids of Khufu and Khafre, I returned the following day ready for some wider exploration.
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Inside the Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
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I had bought a ticket to enter the Great Pyramid, so climbed the stairs over the massive limestone blocks to the entrance. Not only was I visiting the Pyramids, I was about to enter the biggest of them all!
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Tutankhamun: The Boy King, Egypt
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Looking into the eyes of the death mask, I felt like I was staring back in time through thousands of years. I was looking not just at the mask but at the young man himself.
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Another Day at the Egyptian Museum
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After walking from my Cairo apartment and along the Nile I was back at the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities for another look around. Today it was time to climb the stairs onto the first floor, where the Museum’s vast collection of coffins and mummies was stored.
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A day at the Egyptian Museum
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Inside the museum foyer, the floor and walls were covered in dark granite sarcophagi, exquisitely shaped and polished, and engraved with minutely detailed hieroglyphics. I started grinning and giggling like and idiot; this was the stuff of boyhood dreams!
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Cairo, Egypt, part II
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The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities was a 25 minute walk from my apartment through the chaos of Cairo.