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 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

Map of Egypt

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

Was it worth all the Trouble?

Total Solar Eclipse 3 minutes 58 seconds of Totality

Path of Shadow

Photo Groups My Favorites Videos and Panorama’s The Eclipse Check Points Doors Judy Shopping for Textiles Pharaoh's Revenge

So now to see the pictures

Thank you for coming

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