Egypt Eclipse Expedition 2006 By Alan “Rif” Rifkin
The Expedition Data l Dates: March 25 to April 8, 2006 l Fourteen Days l Pictures taken: 2911 l Four different Hotels & one Ship l Why: Total Solar Eclipse
Trip Segment Descriptions Five Separate Adventures l Giza and the Pyramids l Mediterranean and the Eclipse l Nile Cruise l Cairo l Paris
People Our Group 80 people, ATM of Boston, Stellafane & MMS l Travel Quest and Sky & Telescope magazine, 600 l Al Salloum 15, 000 in 20 different camps l
Trip Segments l l l l 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 l l l l 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
Map of Egypt
Travel Modes l l l l l Jet Planes Buses Camels Donkeys Horse Drawn Carriages Ferry Boats Nile Cruise Ship Feluccas ( Nile Sail Boat) Subway Trains Kama Kazi Kabs
Time l Trip = fourteen days l Basic Travel = two days l Waiting = two days l Sleeping ¼ of the time = 3. 5 days l Dinning = 2 hours a day = 28 hours l So more than ½ the time spent-Why?
Don’t forget your shots l Typhoid l Tetanus l Hepatitis “A” l Polio l And the next week WHO declares Egypt Polio free
Was it worth all the Trouble?
Total Solar Eclipse 3 minutes 58 seconds of Totality
Path of Shadow
Photo Groups l My Favorites l Videos and Panorama’s l The Eclipse l Check Points l Doors l Judy Shopping for Textiles l Pharaoh's Revenge
So now to see the pictures
Thank you for coming
Props l l l l l 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
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