Comments for Egypt http://www.langwitches.org/blog/travel/egypt Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:38:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on Luxor Temple by p8 http://www.langwitches.org/blog/travel/egypt/?p=79&cpage=1#comment-120 p8 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:38:44 +0000 http://www.sjeds.com/blog/egypt/archives/79#comment-120 Hi I whant to know did the Luxor temple used by the christains?

]]> Comment on Saying Goodbye to Omar by p13 http://www.langwitches.org/blog/travel/egypt/?p=83&cpage=1#comment-169 p13 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:51:59 +0000 http://www.sjeds.com/blog/egypt/archives/83#comment-169 I am sad that you have to leave Omar and I am very sad that you have to be leaving Egypt so soon! I hope you have enjoyed your time though! I am glad that you got to meet Omar and that we back in Jacksonville could hear all about him.

~p13~

]]> Comment on Snorkeling in the Red Sea by stolisano http://www.langwitches.org/blog/travel/egypt/?p=72&cpage=1#comment-139 stolisano Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:32:01 +0000 http://www.sjeds.com/blog/egypt/archives/72#comment-139 Dear P4,

I can’t compare the fish from the Red Sea to the ones that we have around here, since I never went snorkeling here. :(
We are bringing back a fish chart that are common to the Red Sea and maybe you can tell us, if the fish species are similar to the ones here in the Atlantic. We did not see any octopus nor squids. I was watching out for dolphins and turtles, since they are supposed to be common in the Red Sea, but did not see any that day.

Can’t wait to see all of you soon.

]]> Comment on Snorkeling in the Red Sea by stolisano http://www.langwitches.org/blog/travel/egypt/?p=72&cpage=1#comment-138 stolisano Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:28:53 +0000 http://www.sjeds.com/blog/egypt/archives/72#comment-138 Mrs. Inclan: We did not see any information about the preservation of the coral reefs. Although while listening to our diving guides, it was made clear to the divers to respect the reefs and not disturb the life under water.

Brittany: The waters were nice and warm, similar to the ones in the Golf of Mexico in the summer.

Christian: We did not see any disguised fish or they were so disguised that we did not notice them :)

Jessica: See our response to Ryan in the previous comment regarding the depth of the water.

Alex: I think we saw some clown fish. We will have to double check our fish chart of the Red Sea, when we get back.

Ryan: We were not aware of any poisonous fish.

]]> Comment on Snorkeling in the Red Sea by stolisano http://www.langwitches.org/blog/travel/egypt/?p=72&cpage=1#comment-137 stolisano Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:23:35 +0000 http://www.sjeds.com/blog/egypt/archives/72#comment-137 Mia: Our diving guide took the photo of the two of us. He took a very deep breath and dove down a few meters. He took the shot as he was coming back up.

Maggie: Mrs.Tolisano’s favorite fish was a huge Rainbow fish. Mrs. Menger liked them ALL.

Paola: Thank goodness, neither one of us got stung by the fire coral.

Nick: We did not see anyone fish, since we were snorkeling in a National Preserve.

Ryan: The depth varied in the different snorkeling spots we went. The first spot was the deepest with the divers going down to 35 meters. The others were only about 5-10 meters deep.

Olivia: The temperature of the water was very comfortable for us. We did get a little chilly towards the end of afternoon.

Audrey: It was a little scary the first time we jumped into the “big blue sea”, but the anxiety disappeared immediately once we emerged into the water and saw the beautiful world underneath the surface.

Jimmy: We did not see any sharks.

]]> Comment on Mount Sinai by stolisano http://www.langwitches.org/blog/travel/egypt/?p=80&cpage=1#comment-153 stolisano Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:11:38 +0000 http://www.sjeds.com/blog/egypt/archives/80#comment-153 Dear P2
We are so happy that you followed us to Egypt through the blog. Mrs. Menger and I estimated that there were probably around 40-50 camels on the path to Mount Sinai. Imagine this tall animals trying to climb the rocky pathway in between thousands of humans, who are flashing their cameras and shining their flashlights into their eyes or start screaming when they turn around to see a camel staring them into the eyes.

]]> Comment on Mount Sinai by stolisano http://www.langwitches.org/blog/travel/egypt/?p=80&cpage=1#comment-152 stolisano Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:07:13 +0000 http://www.sjeds.com/blog/egypt/archives/80#comment-152 Mrs. E’s class,
We had to travel through the night in order make it to the top of the mountain by sunrise. We were very tired after the climb, and still had to descend the mountain after that. After we returned to our hotel, we had just enough time to shower and then we were taken to the airport to fly back to Cairo.

]]> Comment on Mount Sinai by stolisano http://www.langwitches.org/blog/travel/egypt/?p=80&cpage=1#comment-151 stolisano Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:03:28 +0000 http://www.sjeds.com/blog/egypt/archives/80#comment-151 Britain: yes, the temperature dropped dramatically as we slowly climbed our way up the mountain. Mrs. Menger and I had brought a blanket with, which we had to wrap ourselves in, plus our sweater and a scarf.

Kitty: The mountain path was not caved in.

Danielle: We only saw birds and a few donkeys besides the camels on the way up. There was also some cats at the monastery.

Christian: We don’t know if a river made these mountains. Our guess is not, since it is in the desert. Maybe you can research that questions more in detail and let us know what you find out?

Joey: We did not see any sink holes.

Amanda: Look at the photos we posted carefully and you will get an impression how steep the mountain was. It was very tiring to climb such a steep, winding incline for 5000 meters.

Ryan: The mountain is 2285 meters high.

Nathan: We did not see any quick sand.

]]> Comment on St. Catherine’s Monastery by stolisano http://www.langwitches.org/blog/travel/egypt/?p=85&cpage=1#comment-166 stolisano Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:55:53 +0000 http://www.sjeds.com/blog/egypt/archives/85#comment-166 It looks like “hay”, because there are thousands of tourists streaming by the bush EVERY day and pulling at it. What a shame.

Jimmy: No one was required to take their shoes off in the monastery.
Denver: The plant is actually as tangled as it looks on the photo.

Mrs. Inclan: The information that we found was that the specimen is “a very rare plant, Rubus Sanctus, a non-fruit-bearing relative of the blackberry bramble” that can live for thousands of years.

Kyle: We did not see that anyone was guarding the bush. But then again, there were soooo many people pushing and shoving around us, we probably would not have noticed them.

]]> Comment on St. Catherine’s Monastery by stolisano http://www.langwitches.org/blog/travel/egypt/?p=85&cpage=1#comment-165 stolisano Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:55:21 +0000 http://www.sjeds.com/blog/egypt/archives/85#comment-165 We were surprised that there was no supervision near the burning bush. The bush is located on the inside of the monastery in a courtyard with a wall on one side. It was so crowded, similar to when you try to get into a ride in Disney World, that we just felt being pushed and shoved while passing by the plant. One man seemed to have gotten real upset when he saw people ripping leaves and roots off the bush. We don’t know if it was another tourist or someone working at the monastery. He charged forward as fast as he could through the crowds and told them to quit ripping anything off. Not everyone wanted to listen to him though. We can imagine that people wanted to take part of the plant home as a souvenir, so they could say that they had a piece of the burning bush at home.

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