This is the lobbly of our hotel
This evening we toured a mosque in a fortress called "The Citadel" where we had our opening ceremony. The following pictures were taken in and around the Citadel tonight.
Friday, July 3, 2009
Cairo, Egypt Day One
Every year Microsoft sponsors an international student technology competition, and the world-wide finals are in Cairo, Egypt this year. Microsoft has ten student teams (23 total students) that qualified for the finals and I am the lead for the US presence. I left Denver on July 1st at 8pm and arrived in Cairo at about 1am on July 3rd. One of the things they screen for at the airport is H1N1 flu. They use an infrared camera, and if they think you have a fever, they don't let you go out into public; they take to directly to a hospital and test you.
This is the lobbly of our hotel
This evening we toured a mosque in a fortress called "The Citadel" where we had our opening ceremony. The following pictures were taken in and around the Citadel tonight.
This is the lobbly of our hotel
This evening we toured a mosque in a fortress called "The Citadel" where we had our opening ceremony. The following pictures were taken in and around the Citadel tonight.
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4 comments:
The infrared camera is pretty cool. That's quite the precaution. The student that you gave your camera to took good pictures. Love the mosque shots. It looks like you also have a nice hotel and that you're enjoying yourself. Bryson misses his papa, but we know you're doing just fine in Egypt. Good luck with the competitions.
Randy,
What an honor. Thank you for all the photos and comments on your trip thus far.
John was impressed with your market place.
Grandma Pearl
Wow. Love the pics so far. Very interesting about the infared camera. I'd heard about them but had never seen one. Sounds exciting to be there so far.
Leah
i wish i could go take pics of that awesome architechture!
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