Philae temple	feluca on Nile Aswan
temple at Luxor	ramsheads at Karnak
column Kom Ombo	columns Karnak
Colossi	Cleopatra bas relief Kom Ombo
child on donkey	with children at Elephantine

Moses the camel	and kissing camels
Western Valley of the Kings	tomb Aye high priest later Pharaoh
C by Aye's sarcophagus with guide	skull by tomb at Western valley
Aye's tomb sarcophagus	at Ramesseu West Luxor

Sphinx - photo by Enrico F, on camel Superjet from my trip 1987
Sahid's mother & family with C, our driver Sahid & brothers

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Sahid helped save a young village woman's life.  She had fallen and was in danger of losing her baby in advanced pregnancy, as well as her own life due to a large loss of blood.  He drove her to the Hospital in time to save both mother and baby. We were much relieved and were glad to have visited the village when we did, after our visit to the tombs at Valley of the Kings, since we were the only wheels around for miles. The large wheel of life and death goes on. - Ivan

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Date: 17 Nov 1999
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EGYPT
By Ivan on Wednesday, November 17, 1999 - 03:34 am: Cinzia and I just got back from a trip to Egypt, though she's still in Rome, where we traveled down/up the Nile to visit various temples and tombs, pyramids, etc. mostly to do with the 18th dynasty, about which I am planning to write a novel set in that time period of ancient Egypt. Quite a fabulous journey, but I sense that religious tolerance and the values of human freedom and compassion are being lost in today's Moslem fundamentalist revival taking place there. A pity, since at the same time the Egyptians are very eager to join in the information age and progressive developments of the West . We found a very heavy military presence there, which makes the streets safe to walk, even at night, but is a bit oppressive to be around soldiers with loaded sub-machine guns, even if they are very friendly. We'll post pictures on the web at HumanCafe /Author's gallery, when they are ready. Generally, the people of Egypt are very friendly and hospitable, especially the Nubians further south. We had a wonderful time visiting with them, and Cinzia even became pretty good at riding a camel around the pyramids. We stopped at a couple of internet cafes to check our mail, but the computers were down. Progress comes slowly, I guess. We did help out a very lovely young village women near the Valley of the Kings who was very pregnant and had fallen, losing a great deal of blood. She was going into shock and was in danger of losing her baby. The villagers were all in alarm, since there was no transportation available other than donkeys. Our taxi was the only other transport for miles, so we commissioned our taxi to take her to the local clinic, about three miles away. The villagers got her into the car, with much blood, and we all drove away to see a doctor. By then she was listless and faint. Her husband held her hand all the way. Cinzia and I sat in the rear, while the whole village, it seemed, was in the front with our driver, Sahid. The doctor felt he was not up to the situation and referred her to the general hospital in Luxor, so we all packed back into the bloody car and took off for the bridge across the Nile and back to Luxor, about 20 miles away. We got her to the hospital and she was still alive, where they gave her a massive transfusion of blood. We found out the next day that she was fine and her baby was saved, so we were much relieved. God works in mysterious ways, and we were sure that if we had not been there at that time in that village visiting a lovely rural family, this young woman would have died, with her baby. Funny, but we never knew her name.

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