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Egypt Eclipse Expedition 2006. By Alan “Rif” Rifkin. The Expedition Data. Dates: March 25 to April 8, 2006 Fourteen Days Pictures taken: 2911 Four different Hotels & one Ship Why: Total Solar Eclipse. Trip Segment Descriptions Five Separate Adventures. Giza and the Pyramids
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Egypt Eclipse Expedition 2006 By Alan “Rif” Rifkin
The Expedition Data • Dates: March 25 to April 8, 2006 • Fourteen Days • Pictures taken: 2911 • Four different Hotels & one Ship • Why: Total Solar Eclipse
Trip Segment DescriptionsFive Separate Adventures • Giza and the Pyramids • Mediterranean and the Eclipse • Nile Cruise • Cairo • Paris
People • Our Group 80 people, ATM of Boston, Stellafane & MMS • Travel Quest and Sky & Telescope magazine, 600 • Al Salloum 15,000 in 20 different camps
Trip Segments • South Hadley to Boston, 98 miles, 2:00 hours • Boston to Paris, 3450 miles, 7:30 hour flight • Paris to Cairo, 1994 miles, 4:30 hour flight • Cairo to Marsa Metruh, 295 miles, 5:30 hour bus • Marsa Metruh to Al Salloum, 175 miles, 3:30 hour bus • Al Salloum to Marsa Metruh, 175 miles, 4:30 hour bus • Marsa Metruh to Cairo, 295 miles, 5:30 hour bus • Cairo to Luxor, 316 miles, :55 minute flight • Luxor to Aswan, 118 miles, 4 day Cruise • Aswan to Cairo, 432 miles, 1:15 hour flight • Cairo to Paris, 1994 miles, 4:30 hour flight • Paris to Boston, 3450 miles, 7:30 hour flight • Boston to South Hadley, 98 miles 2:30 hours • Total distance 12,890 miles, 49:40 time
49:50 Doesn’t include • Transfers from hotels to airports • Waiting at airports • Waiting for them to load baggage • Waiting for them to unload baggage • Waiting for them to find lost baggage • Waiting for lost people & Howard • Going through security- Everywhere! • Doing anything with 80 people takes time
Travel Modes • Jet Planes • Buses • Camels • Donkeys • Horse Drawn Carriages • Ferry Boats • Nile Cruise Ship • Feluccas ( Nile Sail Boat) • Subway Trains • Kama Kazi Kabs
Time • Trip = fourteen days • Basic Travel = two days • Waiting = two days • Sleeping ¼ of the time = 3.5 days • Dinning = 2 hours a day = 28 hours • So more than ½ the time spent-Why?
Don’t forget your shots • Typhoid • Tetanus • Hepatitis “A” • Polio • And the next week WHO declares Egypt Polio free
Photo Groups • My Favorites • Videos and Panorama’s • The Eclipse • Check Points • Doors • Judy Shopping for Textiles • Pharaoh's Revenge
Props • Shorts and pith helmet • Galabia and Kafia • Scrap book, cummen and indigo • Computer • Mortar and Pestle, Camel, fabric • Telescope setup • Red laser • Figs, dates and seltzer • Rosetta Stone