Day 75: Cairo, Egypt....

Day 75: Today I arrived in Cairo. Cairo reminds me of a bit of NYC . The people look a mix of African black and middle eastern (greek, roman, etc..). The people generally have brown to light brown complexion with curly to wavy hair. They look very similar to the Brazilians that are an african and portuguese mix. Went to the great pyramids of egypt today. Learned that the great pyrmaids of giza are for one of the noble families of egypt and the sphinx are the guardians of the pyrmaids they are half human and half lion. Then had a great egyptian dish called kosery, which consist of noodles, macroni, lenitls, brunchy potatoe, topped off with hot sauce and vinegar. This is represented of the roman influence. Then headed off to the Egyptian museuam and learned that the north and south egypt was once divided into upper and lower egypt. the determination of upper and lower egypt was from the direction of which the nile river flows which is from south to north, thus upper egypt is southern egypt and lower egypt is northern egypt. The head dress of the egyptians represents this, rounded for upper and square for lower. Also the kings type of beard, which I learned was fake, represneted whether he was alive or dead. The square beard is for someone being alive and the curly is dead. also if the kings feet are together they represent him being dead if one foot is in front of the other than he is alive. Heilogric's the agent egyptian language is based on animals and human organs. The egyptians believed in the afterlight, thus their treasures were buried with them and they even had small minature carvitures of their servants to take with them in the afterlife. That night took an overnight train to Aswan, which is in the southern part of Egypt, by Sudan. As we entered the train station I noticed that some of the people were praying, as it's customary to pray 5 times a week, the train station accomodates for these services. There was a blanket spread out and people were praying. The 1st class overnight train was pretty comfortable big reclining seats with airconditiong.