A Travel to Ancient Egypt

Once you have arrived to Egypt, first you find yourself in another world, another type of civilization, that of the Arabs, with their deep indifference to any form of cleaning. Dirt of metropolitan Cairo, counting 16 million inhabitants is hard to describe in words, there are no hygiene authorities, no consumer protection. A large part of the city cannot be photographed. You travel by bus horrified by the idea of eating something that is produced or sold there.

There are unfinished houses and buildings without roofs. Almost 90% of the buildings are like that, because the next generation needs housing built above the existing one. Their agriculture is primitive, which reminds you of ancient Egypt. The donkey is of great price, the cows are skinny, just the camel seems better fed, maybe because it can make more money from tourism. While all this is displayed with maximum indifference, Egypt is full of tourists. Hordes of Japanese, French, American, Polish, etc. are teeming like ants on Mount Sinai and the great ancient Egypt temples.

Groups are mixed and if you are not careful, you may get lost among the visitors ... And Egyptians learned to make big money from their ancestors, the Pharaohs. Almost everyone on the street speaks a little English, everyone says "Welcome to Egypt," and if you request information, you do not receive it unless you pay for the service. Bazaars and colored souvenirs, the Nubian blouse cost 15 local currencies and you can buy it for four if you master the art of negotiation...

The Nile is majestic in its flow, aware that it gives life to the desert, as for centuries yearly Egyptian calendar consisted of only three periods. These periods in ancient Egypt were Nile overflowing, working the land, and drought. You can see actually from the cruise ship that at a few hundred yards behind the green area surrounding its bed, the desert begins. You can row the boat on the Nile. Indeed, the feeling of psychical relief is amazing; you may think that this water is something magical!

In addition, the great temples of ancient Egypt are placed all along the Nile valley. They are Kom Ombo, Edfu, Esna, Luxor, Karnak. There are giant statues, impressive columns, drawings depicting the story of their gods, of crafts, the calendar, etc. At the beginning, for a ruler who died and who would become a god, people built a pyramid tomb.

Cheops Pyramid, the 137 m high, built about 2500 years BC and which to Eiffel Tower - 1889 - was the tallest building in the world. Egyptians considered it better to hide tombs of ancient underground and created what will be called the Valley of the Kings. Huge stone temples were erected for glorifying gods and pharaohs. They are buildings with religious purpose, built to make mortals feel insignificant. Instinctively, you think about the personality cult, about how little soul must have a man to believe that he deserves such worship, such a tomb. However, people in ancient Egypt considered they deserved pyramids. Maybe yes, maybe not, maybe unpredictable mysteries are hidden in pyramids...