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- 1. “ FOOTSTEPS OF MOSES” EGYPT TOUR JANUARY 2011
- 2. From JFK New York we landed first at Cairo and transferred to a smaller jet to Aswan. The next day we took a prop-jet to El Simbel returning to Aswan in the afternoon. El Simbel
- 3. Waiting for taxi boats to cross the water to the hotel.
- 4. The Movenpick Hotel on Elephantine Island, Aswan.
- 5. Felucca boats on the Nile River at Aswan.
- 6. View of Felucca boats on Nile River from lounge at top of Movenpick Hotel, Aswan.
- 7. Typical of bulrushes (reeds) along Nile River, Aswan.
- 8. The unfinished obelisk, Aswan
- 9. Temple of Ramses II at El Simbel
- 10. Statues are 67 ft tall. With the higher water level of Lake Nasser, from the 2 nd Aswan Dam, the temple was dismantled and reassembled 200 ft higher with its original orientation to the sun.
- 11. Temple of Nefertari, wife of Ramses II, at El Simbel
- 13. Helmsman on Lake Nassar near Philae ruins.
- 15. Note the engine value stem used to secure the keel.
- 16. Boy paddled out to sing for money.
- 18. The boat directly above is similar to the river cruise boat we were on to Luxor.
- 19. Kom Ombo temple 30 miles north of Aswan.
- 20. Kom Ombo temple circa 230 BC
- 21. Carriages waiting to take us to the temple ruins at Edfu.
- 24. Downtown Edfu
- 27. Temple of Horus at Edfu Circa 200 BC
- 32. Riot police ready in Edfu .
- 33. Following another cruise boat through the locks at Esna on the Nile River half way between Edfu and Luxor.
- 34. Locks at Esna on Nile River.
- 35. Soldiers “guarding” the locks at Esna.
- 36. Sunset on the Nile River
- 37. Decision was made to leave Egypt six days after arrival.
- 38. Our “exodus” route Luxor to Tel Aviv.
- 39. Here we are getting on the charter plane middle eastern style: Take a bus from the airline terminal to waiting plane parked far out on the tarmac.
- 40. Our charter aircraft is unmarked except for the small Jordanian flag. The “stewards” all carried guns.
- 41. END OF EQYPT TRIP BUT AS A RESULT OF OUR EXODUS WE HAD A FULL DAY IN JERUSALEM (So a few pictures of Jerusalem follow)
- 42. Temple mount and gold Dome of the Rock as seen from across the Kidron Valley.
- 43. Wailing wall
- 44. Bette and Walt in rain at the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem .
- 45. Old Jerusalem
- 50. THE END