My Sacred Journey To Egypt 2009 - Our Journey Throughout Egypt Begins

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Today we begin our journey throughout Egypt and we will be joined again by Dr Morad as he shares his interesting and informative stories and of course his humor.

So lets begin!

On our trip you will see Cairo is very crowded, especially those of you from Australia....when you drive sometimes 6 hours and you see a person...a kangaroo.

Here you find between a person and a person...another person...between a car and another car ...a car.

Then we have the traffic attention together... and the people who are planning to sit in the front...I advise you don't have weak hearts because you'll have strokes about every five minutes and heart attack from driving in Cairo.

And of course this will be a good chance for the healer's to work with you when you have your heart attack....then some will be happy with me today.

Our driver will give alot of heart attacks and a lot of business.

While we're driving in Cairo we'll talk about subject here...subject there.. and after leaving Cairo we'll travel a short distance...in kind of desert really.

Then we'll reach the delta...the delta is the most fertile area of Egypt and we see countryside there and villages till we reach our first stop...which will be the Temple of the cat Goddess...she was called Bastet....there we'll see the Temple and talk about it ....spend a period of time there and we'll return to Cairo.

And then people who got a heart attack in the front can switch with the others....to have another heart attack for them as well ...and they can have the experience and the healers can make more money.

When we come back we'll have sometime between the arrival of Cairo and the overnight train to Aswan.

Then we'll go to see a Papyrus institute and see a demonstration of how the Ancient Egyptian's made papyrus paper.

We can see the papyrus paper almost 4,000 years old in the museum and we know how this was in very good condition.

Then we'll see the real ones because in the street they say there banana leaves....they don't take as real papyrus...these are banana leaves when they come to do that.

But we'll go and see the real ones on our return back from our trip today.

How long will it take....estimated time of going there is two and half hours or three days depending on the traffic in Cairo.

Traffic rules are non existant and people do not use their indicators, instead using their car horns and flash their lights.

The roads are shared between horse and buggy's, cars, buses and older trucks.

Some trucks would have like a open back with a canopy over it and people seated inside and then there would be more people standing holding on to the rails of the truck.

We took this photo when we were sitting inside the buggy

I think we would call it rafferty's rules in Australia.

Everyone for themselves....stopping and starting in the middle of intersections and roundabout's.

What you see around you ....look you will see fields and green fields and then ugly houses.....you see these ugly buildings here and there.

The law in Egypt is this land which is cultivated land...is completely to build on it... any buildings because our land is limited.... less than five percent of our land is cultivated....the rest of it is desert and this five percent is not enough to feed the people here.

We import alot of our food from abroad especially the wheat ....but what happened ... Cairo expanded and expanded and came to the pyramids.

The city of Cairo with the Great Pyramid in the foreground

All this area was empty one day.

When it came near the pyramids...the price of land here to be building land...raised incredibly high.

Then the farmers found out...there was a chance to sell it to build on it and he can make alot of money...more for those farmers for the next hundred years....he can make it in one shot by selling it.

But... its against the law...who cares...its a crime you understand me.

The crime amount is nothing compared to the money they are making.

Then they do it tricky way...they sell it to the builders and the one bought it is building it...then the buildings are unfinished....look at them...it is a sign they are for sale ...apartments here.

They make them unfinished complely in and out..cheap..and then they can find buyers...buy this price quickly and those buyers buy and they finish them for themselves inside.

Everybody is finishing his flat from inside and they don't care about outside because it cost them more money...then they finish it from inside only.

Second its against the law...they are buildings here without plans...they cannot make plans until the government gives the plan....then there are built haphazard.

There are no home loans in Egypt, people buy a piece of land and bricks and build themselves.

If they run out of money it may take them years to build the next floor.

You will find the streets are very narrow....the sewage system is not supplied and they force the government to supply them clean water and electricity....then you see satellite dishes and every one like that but actually sewage system is one of the problems of this place.

The streets are not paved there muddy and when it rains..it never rains in this country...they become muddy and so on.

Thats why they look ugly for this again.

The newspapers by the government ...they would like to commute all those people in other healthy houses and demolish the area and then its new things here.

I doubt...because they can't move about a million people living in these places.

Next we visit Tanis ( Bubastis)Temple to meet Goddess Bast.

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My Sacred Journey To Egypt 2009 - Our Journey Throughout Egypt Begins