Egypt Photos
Here are some photos taken by Steve on his most recent journey in Egypt.
Archive for "Cairo to Jerusalem"
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Introduction and Itinerary
Hi folks. I’m off this coming Monday to Egypt/ Israel for a whirlwind tour with Rikk Watts, Professor of New Testament Studies at Regent College. We’re basically going on a pre-trip to scout out a 2010 tour for a group of folks (mostly from the Seattle area) I have come to know and love over [...]
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Day One / Flight and First Impression / Cairo
The Nile River – taken from my hotel room. First impression flying over the Nile delta and toward Cairo is the absolute enormity of the city. It took half an hour to fly over it to get to the airport. There, we were met by a rather striking man, both in features and in demeanor, [...]
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Day 2 / Pyramids and Old Cairo
Great Pyramid at Giza Woke up this morning at 7am and by 8 had eaten breakfast, met our guide Magda, and were crossing the city to Giza to visit the three most famous of the 118 known pyramids in Egypt. First, let me correct last night’s description of Cairo. It is perhaps a bit more [...]
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Day Three – Luxor
The Nile from my hotel room window in Luxor I’m going to try to be quick here cause it was a long hot day and I’m up again early in the morning. So I may leave out a detail or two for now and come back and fill in later. Rikk and I flew out [...]
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Day 4 / Back to Cairo
This will be very brief. We saw another amazing temple this morning before catching a flight back to Cairo where we were immediately taken to the Egyptian Museum for the rest of the afternoon. We saw, among other things, the contents of Tutankhamen’s Tomb. To see this stuff is overwhelming. Of course we weren’t allowed [...]
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Day 5 / The Sinai Penninsula
Gulf of Aqaba It’s 6am and I’m sitting on my hotel balcony, drinking my morning ‘Nescafe’, and looking across the Gulf of Aqaba at the mountains of Jordan. But for the Nescafe, this could be a perfect moment. To the north east I can see the shores of Israel; to the south, Saudi Arabia. And [...]
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Day 6 / Hello Israel
Flowers outside my room. This morning was the one chance to sleep in – and of course I woke up shortly after 5 am. Sigh… But it was a great am with the sun bathing my balcony so I just relaxed there reading ‘till about 10 when I met Rikk for a quick breakfast before [...]
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Day 7 / Jordan Valley
Looking behind at the Dead Sea as we head west (up) from the Jordan Valley We rose early again this morning and were on the road by 7:30. Very hot today. In the morning it was already in the high 30′s and rose to around 45C by mid-afternoon. We first traveled inland toward Tel Arad, [...]
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Day 8 / The Galilee and Golan Heights
Tiberius When one thinks of a sea, it is usually of a fairly large body of water. As with all things in this land you must think so much smaller than we do from our expansive plains at home. The Sea of Galilee is more like a lake, and when you stand on the north [...]
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