{"id":78495,"date":"2019-09-26T13:53:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T19:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=78495"},"modified":"2019-09-26T23:19:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T05:19:34","slug":"last-chance-to-book-ultimate-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2019\/09\/last-chance-to-book-ultimate-egypt.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Last Chance to Book &#8216;Ultimate Egypt&#8217;!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33107\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33107\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/04\/800px-All_Gizah_Pyramids.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-33107\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/04\/800px-All_Gizah_Pyramids.jpg\" alt=\"Al-ahraamaat fi misr\" width=\"597\" height=\"397\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great as they are, there\u2019s actually a whole lot more to ancient Egypt than just these. And then there\u2019s Christian Egypt. And medieval Islamic Egypt. And Ottoman Egypt. And modern Egypt. The country is, without fail, fascinating.<br>(Wikimedia Commons public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I just now received a note from the folks at Cruise Lady, and I thought that I would pass it on for my reader or readers here:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001ppdHI7rABu_BgUOBx_XqzJfv9MEVQrJAO58k-R1UJTVPhnkK83dxqE0BSuhwZur7zLHbFxlNN5g2c2-PExKPwCiaJZYJ-1ig9EQFciVgCdAhHlocxWCqcKHsQal9uUI5zfDr80hPDylqBRNfXHAVdY2NLu8oFKHNvwPR3r2QuUVI8NanoJ013WBknf3r9bWW8T7l2yBh1Xeg4jgPAvyMfUInmWFPr0JC6N-VDCJMfgo=&amp;c=qPv7-X0mGu-L4J5O2EMk03tsnI2_g8g-HiROCsNQ4YSvB6SLK9_a1Q==&amp;ch=7fPNg2wDiQTIaqOBsIOk3agJI0avmgpOfpPNY5jzNHX0mcrxiEfgTA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\">Last Chance to Book Ultimate Egypt!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">We have been informed that tomorrow, September 27, will be the last day we can book space on our Nile cruise that takes place on our 12-Day Ultimate Egypt Tour. If you want to visit the stunning temples built by Ramses II for himself and for Nefretari (\u201cshe for whom the sun doth shine\u201d) at Abu Simbel, and if you want to visit Alexandria, one of the most historically significant cities in the world, this is your last chance!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">See everything you\u2019ve heard so much about, including: the Great Pyramids, the Step Pyramid at Saqqara, the Sphinx, and the great Temple of Karnak \u2014 but also see Christian and Jewish Old Cairo, Aswan, Luxor, the Valley of the Kings, The Temple of Philae, and much more! We will cruise for 4 nights along the Nile River in Upper Egypt, with stops at such remarkable places as the temples of Edfu and Kom Ombo.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Two of the unique aspects of this tour are visits to Abu Simbel and to Alexandria.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #993300;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #993300;\">In Alexandria, we will visit the only Roman amphitheater in Egypt, the modern Library of Alexandria, and the Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, one of the Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #993300;\">And you can read the fascinating story of how the temples at Abu Simbel were saved from inundation by being disassembled and moved uphill\u00a0<a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001ppdHI7rABu_BgUOBx_XqzJfv9MEVQrJAO58k-R1UJTVPhnkK83dxqMfrC1WU_6HDbes8fkgsEfxiSsJRW52CQeArqtLEqozPRC1kMCzEueqzkYnUPQFdC635IJsGRemO8oyVAa0EgXyWZH2D2Vg-3RQSwXsC6dBQnjp7tgrdwbXMNTdkyRY4dJMjUcKzxpe9lfMdLmVSiF9TC5Q7ThOYuNk6_duohOSEp3UrZLcHjf43-rjcUVB8LMbQHxS_6FiUUvsDWR3TfJFMw4jcAd3W3qGuiOAaatQb&amp;c=qPv7-X0mGu-L4J5O2EMk03tsnI2_g8g-HiROCsNQ4YSvB6SLK9_a1Q==&amp;ch=7fPNg2wDiQTIaqOBsIOk3agJI0avmgpOfpPNY5jzNHX0mcrxiEfgTA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\">here.<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tour Date: \u00a026 December 2019 \u2013 6 January 2020, with Hany Tawfeek and Steve Densley J.D.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hany Tawfeek is one of the foremost tour guides in Egypt, as well as a friend. \u00a0Steve Densley, also a friend, is both the vice president of Cruise Lady and the executive vice president of the Interpreter Foundation. \u00a0He has devoted considerable attention to visiting Egyptian sites and to the study of ancient Egypt\u2019s history and religious monuments.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, too: \u00a0Some have expressed to me their fear of traveling in Egypt. \u00a0Well, of course, bad things might happen there. \u00a0After all, bad things can happen <em>anywhere<\/em>. \u00a0But I can honestly say that I have never felt unsafe in Egypt during any of the many visits that I\u2019ve made there nor during the four years (1978-1982) that my wife and I lived there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, if you\u2019re inclined to go, if you want to enjoy the many wonderful things there are to see in Egypt, by all means <em>go<\/em>.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 I just now received a note from the folks at Cruise Lady, and I thought that I would pass it on for my reader or readers here: \u00a0 Last Chance to Book Ultimate Egypt! 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