Visiting the lands of
Pyramids, Petra, and Prayers
Egypt, Jordan and Israel in 13 days
19-Jul-2020

The Tour
• Cairo  Alexandria  Cairo
• Cairo  Giza  Cairo
• Cairo  Aswan
• Aswan  Luxor
• Luxor  Cairo  Amman
• Amman  Jerusalem
• Egypt: 13th to 20th February,
2020
• Jordan: 21st to 23rd February,
2020
• Israel: 23rd February, 2020 to
26th February, 2020
• Agency: Travel Triangle

The Team of 9 Sujit Bose
Anamitra Bose - Noyonika Bose - Mou Chaudhuri-
Chandreyee Das - Malabika Bose
Partha Bose – Partha Pratim Das – Abhimanyu Basu

About Egypt (Arab Republic of Egypt)
• Transcontinental – spanning the NE corner of Africa and
SE corner of Asia by a land bridge (Sinai Peninsula)
• Capital: Cairo, 30°2′N 31°13′E
• Language: Arabic
• Area: 1,010,408 sq. km.
• Water (%): 0.632
• Population: 100,075,480 (2020)
• Dialing code: +20
• Currency: Egyptian pound

Egypt is all about..
Pharaos or
Kings
The Gods :
Isis,
Ra,Osiris,
Horus ,
Anibus,
Sobek
Pyramids
and the
Ruins
Sarcophagi
and
mummificat
ion
Brown
and Grey
Cities
Nile : the
key of life
Scarabs
and
Cartouche

Egyptian Civilization Spans …
250000
BC
Earliest
human
traces in
Egypt
1ST DYNASTY
4500 - 3100 BC
Local cultures
appear in the Nile
Valley
C 3100 BC Memphis
founded as the
capital of united
Egypt
4TH DYNASTY
Early 2500 BC
Era of the great
pyramid builders at
Giza & Saggara
404 - 343 BC The
last native
Egyptian dynastic
332 BC - Alexander
invades Egypt
31 BC
Anthony &
Cleopatra
defeated -
Ptolemy reign ends
with Cleopatra’s
death

Day 0: Cairo
Sujit and Nita Bose arrives …

Saints Sergius and Bacchus Church
Coptic Church: Abu Serga
• Coptic Cairo is a part of Old Cairo
• Babylon Fortress,
• Coptic Museum,
• Hanging Church,
• Greek Church of St. George and many others
• Coptic Cairo was a stronghold for Christianity in
Egypt both before and during the Islamic era, as
most of its churches were built after the Muslim
conquest of Egypt in the 7th century
• Coptic Church dates back to the 4th century
• Built on the spot where the Holy
Family, Joseph, Mary and the infant Jesus Christ,
rested at the end of their journey into Egypt
A The Hanging
Church is one of
Cairo's most
famous Coptic
Orthodox Churches,
first built in the 3rd or
4th century AD

The well which the holy family drank from

Carved wood wall
and doors, an
iconostasis( wall of
icons and religious
paintings) , in
the Coptic Church

Day 1: Cairo
Rest of the party arrives

Cairo City
• Capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world.
• Associated with ancient Egypt, as the famous Giza pyramid
complex and the ancient city of Memphis are located in its
geographical area
• Located near the Nile Delta, Cairo was founded in 969 AD by the
Fatimid dynasty
A rendition
of Fustat from A. S.
Rappoport's History
of Egypt
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933). On the Way between Old and
New Cairo, Citadel Mosque of Mohammed Ali, and Tombs of the
Mamelukes, 1872. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum

…..and arrive
the Das-s too

Dhusho..r
Misho…r
While Egypt
was golden
and colorful
..today it
mostly dons
brown and
grey because
people live in
houses under
construction
so that they
can escape
taxes

………With
some
touches
of colour

The quintessential Nile

Paris
of
the
East
…..
Down
town
Cairo

El Tahrir Square, also known as "Martyr Square", is a major public town square in
downtown Cairo, Egypt.

La Poire Café in
downtown Cairo

Dinner here

Dinner at Giza - the first glimpse of lighted
Sphinx

View from the Hotel room

Day 2: Alexandria
Catacomb Necropolis, Roman Theatre, Pompey’s Pillar, Citadel Quitbay

Alexandria
• Second-largest city in Egypt and a major
economic center for natural gas and oil
pipelines from Suez
• Founded in c. 331 BC by Alexander, the
Great
• Capital of Ptolemaic, Roman and Byzantine
Egypt for almost 1,000 years, until the
Muslim conquest of Egypt in AD 641
• Hellenistic Alexandria:
• Lighthouse of Alexandria (Pharos), one of the
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
• Great Library, largest in the ancient world
• Necropolis, one of the Seven Wonders of the
Middle Ages
• Modern Alexandria:
• Coptic Orthodox Church
• Greek Orthodox Church

Way to Alexandria
Teymoor – Our Guide in Cairo

Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa
• One of the 7 Wonders of the Middle Ages
• Necropolis, the city of the dead, having series of Alexandrian tombs,
statues and archaeological objects of the Pharaonic funeral cult
with Hellenistic and early Imperial Roman influences
• Used as a burial chamber from 2nd to 4th century, before being
rediscovered in 1900
• 3 Sarcophagi (box-like funeral receptacle for a corpse, carved in
stone) along with other human & animal remains
• Hall of Caracalla contains the bones of horses of Emperor Caracalla

The antique carved sarcophagus at the entrance to Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa archaeological site, containing
objects of Pharaonic, Greek and Roman funeral cult

Roman Amphitheatre at Kom El Dekka
• In Arabic, means the hill of rubble or the hill of the benches,
and it was named by a famous historian, El Neweir at the
beginning of the 20th century
• Was discovered by coincidence in the year 1960
• Constructed in the 4th century AD and was a common feature
of the Greco Roman period
• Features a marble audience section which is symmetrical
with extended wing and could host up 600 spectators

Open Air
Museum

Pompey's Pillar
• Roman triumphal column in Alexandria
• Set up in honor of the augustus Diocletian between 298-302 AD, the
giant Corinthian column
• Originally supported a colossal porphyry statue of the emperor in armor
• The erroneous name and association with Pompey stems from historical
misreading of the Greek dedicatory inscription on the base
1799 cartoon by James Gillray
Pompey's Pillar in 1911
Commander John Shortland, R.N. atop the pillar (1803)

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stairs…..…

Head
replacement
????

Done with history … lunch calling

Citadel of Qaitbay
• A 15th century defensive
fortress located on the
Mediterranean sea
coast, in Alexandria
• Established in 1477 AD
by Sultan Al-Ashraf Sayf
al-Din Qa'it Bay
• Situated on the eastern
side of the northern tip
of Pharos Island at the
mouth of the Eastern
Harbor
• Erected on the exact site
of the famous
Lighthouse of Alexandria
– one of the 7 Wonders
of the Ancient World

The Mediterranean

El-Gaish Rd,
Al Mazar,
Qesm Al Gomrok,
Alexandria
Governorate, Egypt
Fish
Market
Marina

Day 3: Giza
Great Pyramid, Great Sphinx, Egyptian Museum, Khan El Khalili Bazaar, Travel to
Aswan

Great Pyramid of Giza