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Posted: Thu 26 Feb, 2009, 14:03 pm Post subject: Only one place.....
If you could visit only one place in Egypt, where would it be and why? ______________________________________ I believe the children are our future
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Posted: Thu 26 Feb, 2009, 17:02 pm Post subject:
Is that a "Where is your favourite place?" question, or a "Which place would you most like to see that you haven't already?" ______________________________________
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Posted: Thu 26 Feb, 2009, 19:25 pm Post subject:
Horus wrote:
Is that a "Where is your favourite place?" question, or a "Which place would you most like to see that you haven't already?"
Either. Maybe you've already visited it or maybe you've always wanted to visit but not yet got there.
OK, let's try to reword it........
If in your lifetime you could only visit one place in Egypt, where would it be?
Why do you have the desire to visit this particular place. ______________________________________ I believe the children are our future
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Posted: Thu 26 Feb, 2009, 20:48 pm Post subject:
In that case I think my answer to that would have to be the Giza Plateaux, why? well because it sums up almost everything there is about Egypt. There is the awe inspiring moment when you first see the Great pyramid, then even more awe and wonder when you get up really close to them. This is rapidly followed by more disbelief when you try to imagine the effort and organisation that went into each of them for the glorification of one just man. The sense of timelessness, you know that they have stood for millennia and will stand for many more, whilst on their timescale your life is but a brief moment in time. You can touch them and feel a connection with people of different era’s, you are standing in the same place and looking at the same things as the great pharaohs that built them and possibly many later rulers who came to gaze upon them and reflect upon their own worldly power. The Greek historian Herodotus stood where you are standing, as did Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, and Napoleon to name but a few. They were standing before the birth of any modern religion and may well outlast them all. There is mystery, what is the Sphinx? Who built it? And why? Enough questions and answers to fill many scholarly books. They inspire imagination, at night with just the illumination of the Son et lumière, they once again become the things of beauty that they once were, standing proudly on the plateaux with the light reflecting off their smooth sides of gleaming white Tura limestone, reminding the world that they are the resting places of gods.
Well enough eulogising, I’m off for my dinner. ______________________________________
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Posted: Thu 26 Feb, 2009, 22:15 pm Post subject:
Thats much how I felt Horus when I first visited Giza but for me there's only one special place that pulled me from my terrific life, family and friends in New Zealand all the way across the world to live in a town that could not possibly be more different - and thats Luxor.
Then in the midst of living my life's dream - I gave it up for love and have never regretted it. But for that I would never have contemplated ever leaving Luxor, and when I'm there I rarely feel the desire to venture far from home - except for day trips fossicking. ______________________________________ Obstacles are all you see if you take your eyes of the goal.
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Posted: Fri 27 Feb, 2009, 2:31 am Post subject:
I think it would be the White Desert for me,would just love to see the sunset and then the rise again, came close back in 2006 when we did a desert safari from Luxor,went to Dush then worked are way up to Kharga, while on the trip the guide asked if we would like to join himself and the 2 lads who were doing the trip and travel up to the white desert then on to Cairo, i was up for it but her ladyship turned it down (lack of clothes), so it still on my things to see list
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Posted: Fri 27 Feb, 2009, 2:46 am Post subject:
Never mind Bigken, something to keep in reserve for another day, it wouldn't do to have all our dreams fullfilled. ______________________________________
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Posted: Fri 27 Feb, 2009, 16:37 pm Post subject:
Theres too many places to visit but I would quite like to see Siwa, the Giza area, the name escapes me just now, but where Akenhaton city was, the list is endless! ______________________________________ A day without laughter is a day wasted
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Posted: Fri 27 Feb, 2009, 19:46 pm Post subject:
Karenh wrote:
Theres too many places to visit but I would quite like to see Siwa, the Giza area, the name escapes me just now, but where Akenhaton city was, the list is endless!
Tell el Armana, Karen.
Mmm, there and Saqqara I think. ______________________________________ Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain.
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Posted: Sat 28 Feb, 2009, 11:10 am Post subject:
If I had only one place it would be the pyramids. They are magnificent and the main reason I first visited Egypt. But my favorite place was the temple at Philae. ______________________________________ "A man who has had a bull by the tail once has learned 60 or 70 times as much as a man who hasn't."
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Posted: Mon 08 Mar, 2010, 16:49 pm Post subject:
PRchick wrote:
If I had only one place it would be the pyramids. They are magnificent and the main reason I first visited Egypt. But my favorite place was the temple at Philae.
I'm with you PRC, but then there are so many places yet to see
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Posted: Tue 09 Mar, 2010, 17:47 pm Post subject:
Yes Philae.Historically speaking.
BUT my first love is Luxor, so sat right down on the banks of the Nile, cold beer in hand watching the felluca's moor up as the sun sets............ bliss
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Thats much how I felt Horus when I first visited Giza but for me there's only one special place that pulled me from my terrific life, family and friends in New Zealand all the way across the world to live in a town that could not possibly be more different - and thats Luxor.
