Arrival in Egypt

Our group arrived safely in Cairo this afternoon at 4 p.m. I think we had cleared all the formalities and were at the hotel about 5:30 p.m. We are tired, but enjoyed a good dinner and now look forward to a good night of rest. Joe and Doris flew separately from California, arriving yesterday. They already looked fresh tonight.

The representative from our good tour company, Nawas International Travel, met us at the airport and took us through all of the formalities flawlessly. Egypt is a different world than most of our American friends can imagine. If you find the right one you can get anything done that needs to get done.

Internet access at the hotel is about $28 for 24 hours of use. Maybe I should pout a "donation" box on the blog.

Jessica mentioned blogging tonight, so I hope you will check her post as well. See the link to the right.

For this first blog I will include the post from last night's Ferrell's Travel Blog, but I will not be doing this all the time. I hope you will check that blog as well. It will be more biblical and historical, but we will probably not be mentioning persons on the tour.

The first biblical reference to Egypt is in Genesis 12:10.

There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe. (Genesis 12:10 NET)

Untold multitudes of people have traveled to Egypt before and after the time of Abram, and for a variety of reasons — to find food, to find refuge, to conquer, to search for treasures, to study history, to make photographs, naming just a few. Our purpose in going to Egypt is not only to enjoy the culture of Egypt, but to study the history at it relates to biblical history. In the next couple of weeks we will try to highlight some of these things. We hope you will travel with us through this blog.



We may not be able to post every day, and due to the time change, it may be at an unusual time of the day. Our non-stop flight is scheduled to depart from New York in less than two hours. The flight takes about 11 hours.