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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Of the 110 pyramids found in Egypt – pyramids that date to 1,000 years before Moses – the Great Pyramid reigns supreme. Built day and night over 20 years by 100,000 workers (who were paid with beer and bread), the magnificent pyramid is 451 feet high and contains 2.3 million rocks – rocks sufficient to build six buildings the size of the Empire State Building.
By day’s end, Journey Home Tour participants viewed more than 20 other smaller pyramids – some showing signs of considerable erosion, others showing actual collapse. Out tour guide, Emad, pointed out that no mortar was used in building the pyramids – instead, a vacuum process continues to serve as the adhesive.
The Sphinx, with its limestone body and darker sandstone head (measuring 15 feet from ear-to-ear), provided a perfect backdrop for the tour’s group photograph.
Other Day Two highlights included:
• Individual 15-minute camel rides on the sands of the Sahara Desert with the major pyramids as background. Most of the amateur camel jockeys, including Lynn and Barb Doerschuk of West Chicago, wore huge grins as they bounced up and down on the camels. Donald Sydow of Chicago summed up his riding experience in one word: “Fun.” C.J. Corbett of St. Robert, Mo., agreed, saying, “It was cool, very cool.”
• An engaging and informative presentation about how papyrus is made at the Abu Simbel Papyrus Institute
• A visit to the ruins of Memphis (translated “Beautiful Place”), an influential city 600 years before Noah’s flood.
It was there where Moses said, “Let my people go.”
• Observing the memorable scenery and hustle and bustle
of daily life from Giza, through Cairo, to what was Memphis. Goats, sheep, camels, water buffalo, donkeys, dogs, cats, pigeon houses where pigeons are raised to be a delicacy, and irrigated fields with cabbage, cauliflower, watermelon, tomatoes, and onions provided some of the Kodak moments.
• Amusement over the never-ceasing chaos known as Egyptian traffic. Two sightings were particularly eye-catching – one a truck bed stacked high with flats of very-breakable raw eggs, the other a motorcycle with a Chicago Bulls bumper sticker from the dynasty years of Michael Jordan.
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