Wednesday morning…3:07 AM
Dear Friends and Family,
I am discovering that writing a blog is a challenge in a foreigncountry for two reasons: Time and the Internet connections! Time because you have so much to see and do and little free time to write and internet connections which are weak and temperamental!
Internet: The best place to get a connection here is on our balcony but with the temperature and wind you need a winter coat and gloves. We are spoiled in the states with super fast connections that allow your iPhone and iPad to talk to each other and to download photos and text with ease. My roommate, Audrey sent me a photo on from her iPhone that took 6 hours to arrive! WOW!
Time: It is 3:00 AM + and I find that after only 4 hours of sleep I am up and excited about beginning my new day. It’s 10:00 PM EST and my internal clock said it was time to get to work. My afternoon free time yesterday was spent trying to discover a good place to send information about this trip to you. I worked on just what to say, included photos then hit publish just before going to our 6:00 lecture…At 9:00 after dinner it was still trying to publish…Then I uploaded three photos and they went on-line quickly. A writer’s challenge to make the information work!
Therefore, I am going to give a short summary of our plans for tomorrow, later download photos individually and hope it makes sense.
We are to leave for Dahshur and Saqqara by motor coach at 8:00 am after breakfast. We will explore the pyramids of Dahshur, the Bent, Red and Step Pyramids said to be the oldest monumental structures in the world. They predate the pyramids here in Giza. Dates 2600 BC!
We will visit the new Imhotep Museum and explore the pyramids of Zoser and Teti. If you are interested in who they are, you can check on the internet .
How many pyramids in Egypt, no one knows! probably more that twice that they have found are still undiscovered. Sand is the enemy of monuments and it covers even large structures quickly.
Most of the pyramids here were made of mud bricks or small stones, The three large pyramids in Giza are still standing because they used stones weighing thousands of pounds. As our guide said, too difficult to move. Using smaller blocks meant that the following generations could take them for their houses, temples or the next pharaoh’s pyramid.
Base of the Great Pyramid of Giza
I now have three bars of internet so I will close for now. Let me know on What’s App or with a comment here if you get this or the last blog page from T
From Tuesday!
Ellen
Ellen’s Travel Journal 2016-2025 