In the shadow of the pyramids

This morning we checked out of our hotel in Aswan (the cruise boat Moondance) and took a pleasant felucca ride on the Nile River. The felucca, a wooden sailing boat, is widely used in Egypt on the Nile River.

About 11:30 we left the cruise boat and went to the Aswan airport for the flight back to Cairo. On the way to the hotel in Giza, near the great pyramids, we stopped at a papyrus shop to see a demonstration of making "paper" from papyrus. Remember that our earliest manuscripts of the New Testament were written on papyrus. Of course, the shop had lots of artistic works on papyrus to sell.

Our hotel is in the shadow of the pyramids -- just a few blocks away.

Tomorrow we will leave early to visit the land of Goshen, the area where Jacob's family settled and grew to a great nation of people.

I think everyone in the group is doing well.