SJEDS Travels to Egypt

Luxor Temple is located along the banks of the Nile, in the middle of the busy and modern town of Luxor. In ancient times Luxor was known as Thebes. The temple is located on the main street that parallels the Nile, and the ancient structure juts up amid shops, apartment buildings, and businesses. At night […]

The temple is located in the small village of Karnak, which is 2.5 kilometers north of Luxor. During the height of Theban power, the temple was the main place of worship for Egypt. Everything at Karnak is on a grand and huge scale. Standing in the temple you feel like a mere spec or a […]

Watch the symbolic exchange of St. Johns River water from Jacksonville, Florida with water from the Nile River.
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Hot as blue blazes. It’s one hundred degrees in the shade. You could fry an egg on the sidewalk. These sayings and more were running through my head during our visit to the Valley of the Kings. The Valley of the Kings is a scorching hot place where finding something green is about as easy […]

Dear Mrs. Menger and Mrs. Tolisano,
Wasn’t the Temple of Hapshetsut simply incredible? I really liked this female pharaoh. Especially because she reigned in peace and her mission was to make contact with other cultures to share tools, food, animals and other resources. I would have loved to be a travel bear on her expedition. […]

Mrs. Tolisano and I were eager to head out to the temple of the first female pharaoh in order to see if Jose and Omar would be there.
The air-conditioned bus ride to Deir-al-Bahri yielded views of rural life as farmers worked the land in the early morning to avoid the intense heat that would soon […]

After three nights and four days on the Nile, we have arrived in Luxor. We are starved for an Internet connection only to find out that our hotel here only offers “Dial-Up” in the room. That means we have to use a very slow telephone line to connect to the Internet.
We wanted to let all of you […]