My other two trips outside Europe were during Christmas 2003 and 2004 to Egypt. I went there with my mother and we bought a trip from a travel agency. We were staying there around 10 days each time The first time we travelled to Sharm El Sheikh and the second time to Hurghada.

Cairo

Sphinx

Sharm El Sheikh

Sharm El Sheikh

We were lucky with the weather in Sharm El Sheikh because it was around 25°C and sunny. The sea was wonderful with coral reefs and colorful fishes. We saw also a blue spotted ray there. We were staying in the hotel Dive Inn which had a swimming pool. A few days after our arrival we went on a boat trip, where some people were fishing, while I was just swimming and sunbathing. We sailed to Ras Muhammad where I was diving a bit (but just with my glasses, I would be scared to try the scuba diving). I considered Ras Muhammad to be an amazing place and one of the most beautiful places for diving.

We went to Cairo where we visited the National museum, the Alabaster mosque, pyramids and sphinx and also the factory with perfumes and carpets. I rode a camel for the first time in my life. We had two guides there, the first one was an Arabic man who could speak Czech fluently and the second one was a woman who studied Czech at the university and she spent one year in the Czech Republic. Cairo wasn't very warm at that time, only around 20°C and it was raining a little which is quite rare in Egypt. My mother didn't stay in Cairo during the night but I did. I stayed in the hotel Victoria. It was fine but I was woken up early in the morning by a praying muezzin. I met three friends from IRC, one of them joined me in the evening in the hotel and we went for a walk. 

The next day I visited the pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara and the lying statue of Ramses II. Then I returned to Sharm. 

I was satisfied with my trip in Sharm El Sheikh, even though I was sick for some time of my trip because of the Egyptian food. We bought quite a lot of stuff in Egypt in the markets, including perfumes, clothes and other stuff, but later we found out that most of it was shoddy goods.

Only two days after our return to Prague there was a plane crash in Sharm El Sheikh where 148 people on the board died, the majority of them were French tourists. It was very shocking news for me and I was thinking that we might have seen some of those people in Sharm. When I flew to the Martha's Vineyard island another disaster stroke when J.F. Kennedy, Jr. crashed into the Atlantic ocean off Martha's Vineyard just the night I arrived there.