Dad and Kim Go to Egypt
July 20- August 1, 2001


Kimberly and Jon Paulien

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        This has been a scattered summer for the Paulien family.  Mom was down at Disney World in Florida working on her internship in Horticulture (she is assigned to EPCOT landscaping).  Tammy (19) went to the Sacramento, California area to earn scholarship money for college through a book sales program (both mother and daughter did well).  Joel (15) was content to spend lots of time at his grandma's house (Gertrude Paulien), playing sports and computer games and fattening up on home cooking.  So when the opportunity arose for Jon to do some speaking in Egypt and in Germany, saying yes was no problem.  And Kimberly (13) was delighted to tag along.  The first leg of the trip (the whole trip lasted until August 23) involved ten days in Egypt, from July 20 to August 1.  This included both a Nile Cruise and a van trip to Mt. Sinai.  Use the links below to see some highlights from the Egypt trip.
Luxor: The West Bank
 Luxor, the site of the most spectacular capital of ancient Egypt, was divided into two parts by the Nile River.  On the West Bank of the Nile was the "city of the dead" where they buried the Pharaohs and memorialized them.  This included the Valley of the Kings.
Luxor: The East 
Bank
 The East Bank of Luxor was the "city of the living."  Instead of tombs and mummies, the ancient Egyptians produced magnificent temples here, which continue to enthrall visitors today.  The center of the modern city, and of the cruise ship industry, the East Bank is the location of the mighty temples of Luxor and Karnak.
Cruising the Nile
 What is delightful, affordably priced, and never gets you seasick?  Why a cruise on the Nile River, of course.  A truly relaxing experience that enables you to see some relatively remote structures of ancient Egypt.  
Abu Simbel
 The fabulous, remote pair of temples which would have been lost forever due to the lake (Lake Nasser) created by the massive Aswan Dam (world's largest artifical lake), had they not been taken apart piece by piece and reassembled on higher ground.
The Pyramids
at Giza
 At the edge of Cairo, awesome and unfor-
gettable, the great pyramids of Giza have survived largely intact for 4500 years.		  
Mount Sinai
 A holy place to the three great religions, and starkly beautiful in its own right.
Aswan
 The southernmost and remotest of the major cities of Egypt, Aswan boasts a dry and healthful climate.  The city is home to the massive Aswan High Dam, the magnificent island temple of Philae, and the Nile River Island of Elephantine (of great interest to biblical scholars, as it was the location of a Jewish garrison who built a temple to Yahweh there around 400 BC.
Family and Friend Shots
 Kim and Jon not only enjoyed each other's company, they traveled along with Jon's friends, Peter and Christa Zarka.  Peter is President of the Egypt Field of Seventh-day Adventists.  Peter and Christa have a delightful son, David (7), whom Kimberly found immensely entertaining even when the adults got a little boring.


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