Day 1 - Arrive in Cairo, EgyptDay 2 - Full day in Cairo, EgyptDay 3 - Goodbye to CairoDay 4 - Hello JordanDay 4 - Hello Jordan Part 25. Day 4 - Hello Jordan Part 3Day 5 - Petra highlightsDay 6 - Caesarea, IsraelDay 7 - Caesarea, IsraelDay 8 - TiberiasDay 8 - Tiberias / CapernaumDay 9 - The JordanDay 10 - JerusalemDay 11 - Jerusalem Part 2Day 12 - Qumran, Masada, and the Dead SeaDay 13 - Carmel Ha'ir, Mahane Yehuda,and Yad Vashem
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Cairo, Egypt
Highlights included:
• A two-hour guided tour of the Egyptian Museum, which features 120,000 King Tut artifacts including the prize treasure, King Tut’s mask of pure gold.
• An hour ride on the Nile River – under blue skies and temperatures in the low 80s – on sailboats replicating those used 5,000 years ago on the Nile. Brandon Branco of Nashville, Tenn., and his grandfather, James Branco of Bellevue, Ohio, and Annette Henson of Eugene, Ore., and her brother, James Dial of Cottage Grove, Ore., kept expressing how they never, ever had expected to be taking a ride on the Nile – which, at 4,500 miles, is the longest river in the world.
• An authentic Egyptian-style lunch at a family-friendly countryside
restaurant. The menu featured chicken and pita bread grilled on open fires, cole slaw, dill pickles, hummus, tahini, pickled red beets, roasted potatoes, and, for dessert, Egypt’s amazingly sweet bananas.
• Observing first-hand the beyond-congested streets and highways of Cairo, the world’s second largest city with a population of 24 million. “The [traffic] rule is no rule,” admitted the Fellowship’s Egyptian-born tour guide Emad Samir. With very few traffic lights, and no established or honored lanes, brave drivers careen through a mass of curb-to-curb vehicles – which include tour buses, taxis, personal vehicles (mostly outdated, beat-up vans), carts being pulled by donkeys, and bicycles – plus pedestrians who cross the streets and expressways wherever and whenever they like.
• Shopping for souvenirs at Mondy Bazaar in Cairo. Qualifying as best shoppers for the first day were Melissa Lichtenwalter of Grand Rapids, Mich., Tara Lichtenwalter of San Jose, Calif., and Maxine Darensbourg of Bakersfield, Calif.
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