Oh no... now that I've discovered St. Catherine's monastery in Sinai, I'll just have to go there. After all, if I am going to Cairo, Alexandria, Luxor and Aswan, what's a little trip eastward to the shores of the Red Sea and then to Mt Sinai???
LP and I spent 3 hours at Borders last Sunday after church so we could pore over every single travel book on Egypt that we could lay our hands on. We wanted to get the Lonely Planet (the ultimate travel bible), but the last print was Jan 2004's and the next one will only be published in May. So we piled up all the other travel guides, settled on the sofa and started ploughing. Of course the staff were none too happy when we turned our sofas to face each other, but they didn't stop us. Hah!
Result - must-go places: Egyptian museum (yay!!!), Islamic & Coptic Cairo, Pyramids of Giza. Fayoum Oasis. Thebes. Karnak. Valley of the Kings (yipee!!!), Temples of Seti, Rameses, Hatsheput, Abu Simbel (if we can make it that far... it's near the Sudanese border).
LP thinks I am nuts. I think she's a killjoy. All I could think of when I turned the pages of colourful artifacts and landscapes were how and when I am gonna get there to photograph them; and all LP said was, "how much is this gonna cost, how much do we have to pay..." I guess we come from different planets. But complementary ones, mind you.
Anyways, I would love to be able to get to Sinai, climb up the mount and do some camping. After spending more than a year studying the life of Moses, a field trip would be a perfect wrap to that experience. :)
Wow... imagine just standing at the shores of the Red Sea and facing the vast impossibility, like what Moses experienced before the parting. Ok, ok... so I am a hopelessly romantic dreamer, but hey, it's free and who knows, maybe I will get to stand on the ground where Moses once stood and relive in my mind's eye the miraculous deliverance of the Lord.
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