Friday, April 18, 2008

In Cairo

Here are pictures of Mohammed Ali Mosque in Cairo
The picture below is at the Coptic Orthodox Church built over the home where Mary and Joseph and Jesus stayed when they fled into Egypt from Herod.
This Sign marks the entrance to the home of the Holy Family


Thursday, April 17, 2008

We visited a Papyrus shop where they showed us how they make papyrus. Papyrus was used like paper and some of the Bible manuscripts were written on Papyrus
Here you see the mixture of traffic in Cairo. Cairo is an amazing city of 17 million people and it has no traffic lights. Traffic moves smoothly and we saw no accidents or major traffic jams.
Below is the Pyramid of Sakkora south of Cairo

Our Trip to Bible Lands

On March 25th, 2008, Sherryl and I flew from Saskatoon to Toronto where we met up with 30 other Canadians for an 18 day Pilgrimage to Egypt, Jordan and Israel. Here are all 32 of us Canadians in front of the Sphinx and the Pyramids. Most of our group was from Calgary and Cochrane.


Here I am standing on the Pyramid at Giza. The Pyramids are on the edge of Cairo.

This was the view from our hotel window of one of the Pyramids.


And a picture of us on the other side of them.