Photos of the year 2003

	Grand Canyon 1. here
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	The home of Oscar, the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. here
	Some heroes on the Hollywood boulevard.
	The stars.
	The evidence: I have been there.
	The legendary Beverly Hills Hotel with lots of celebrity guests. here
	San Diego view from the harbor, right next to the convention center. here
	The San Diego convention center, home of Siggraph 2003. here
	The building from the inside.
	Coronado bridge. here
	Some nice apartments in San Diego downtown.
	Our own dog, Simon at the kennel.
	Simon is now at home at the age of 3 months.
	Walking.
	Simon on Nóri's shoulder.
	Receiving an award at the university graduation ceremony. here
	From left to right: the great pyramid built by Cheops (the largest), Chefren's pyramid and the small pyramid of Menkaure. There are also three "tiny" pyramids for the Queens.
	The Cheops' pyramid is 450 feet high (140m), it's got 2,000,000 blocks each weighing about 2.5 tons. HUGE. here
	Next to the pyramid. What is inside? Here you can see Did aliens build them?
	Camel rider in Giza with Cairo in the background. (Giza is very close to Cairo city!)
	The top of Chefren's pyramid, where you can see some of the original, completely flat surface.
	Close to the pyramids stands the - not so big - Sfinx. here
	Sfinx with the great pyramid in the background. His nose and beard were destroyed by the bad weather of the desert.
	The large and ruined suburb of Cairo, the "city of the dead". The poor families have moved in the old cemetery long time ago, and they occupied the graves or built cottages among them. Now thousands of families live there. here
	Downtown Cairo. The buildings and the flats are dirty and dingy.
	The Mohamed Ali mosque. here
	The Egyiptian Museum of Cairo. The Cheikh el Balad is more thousand years old a wooden statue, still in perfect condition.
	The mummy of Tutankhamen was found in three coffins, locked in several boxes. The inner coffin is solid gold of several hundred pounds.
	His face was protected by a marvelous, life size golden mask. more info
	The table used for removing the internal organs of the dead pharaoh prior to embalming.
	The muslims prepare for "breakfast" at 5pm in the famous bazaar of Cairo. During ramadan they are not allowed to eat or drink from 5am until 5pm. here
	The Al Azhar mosque of Cairo from the outside. here
	One of the domes of Al Azhar mosque.
	The beautiful court. Entry only bear feet, women also should wear veil.
	The greatest hall of the mosque, several thousand men pray here frequently. Each cell is for one person and they point to Mecca.
	The Red Sea, which was not really red. But it was beautiful.
	Nóri at the Giftun islands with a veil from the bazaar on her head.
	Snorkeling at the Giftun islands. here
	Rich underwater life.
	Watching corals.
	Corals, fishes and lot of water.
	McDonald's. The arabic way.
	Colossus of Memnon at Luxor. They are in very bad condition but still compelling. here
	Luxor, the valley of the kings: the pharaohs realized that the big pyramids were always - almost immediately - robbed. more
	They started to built long tunnels into the rock with a large burial chamber at the end for the sarcophagus and the treasures. here
	All of the walls and the ceiling are covered with colorful paintings. They are in very good condition.
	Not only images but hieroglyphs are everywhere.
	Luxor, the temple of Hatshepsut (who was the only women pharaoh). (This is where 60 tourists were killed in 1997) more
	The temple consists of a succession of terraces and it is sorrunded by great walls of rock. here
	Nóri in the hall where Hatshepsut is depicted with ears of a (holy) cow.
	The front side of the temple of Karnak (at Luxor). It was built for more than 1000 years. here
	Statue of Ramses II, one of his hundred doughters is sitting at his legs. She was his most loved child, he married her as well...
	The great and immense Hypostyle Hall of Karnak. The Ceiling is 70 feet high, the natural light was provided through clerestory windows. more
	The columns have either open or closed papyrus-bud capitals (depending on wheter they were in shadow or not!), and they are 33 feet in circumference. The temple was build before 1000 B.C.
	The walls of the hall are covered with scenes of ancient Egyptian history and mythology. Here you can see the God of fecundity, look at his thing...
	Each of two great Obelisks of Karnak (100 feet and 70 feet) was made of one block of granite. more
	Some "guards" at the back of the temple.
	The "back door" of the temple.
	Final hours of 2003.

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