Section 1114 Pure beauty

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But if you want to see whether the Red Sea is blue or red in the depths, you need to take a yacht to go out to sea, in addition to fishing for sea fish, feeding seagulls, and watching dolphins. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info∮ the best part is snorkeling, you can see more fish swimming around than the Maldives without much effort, bring some bread and they will love you!

Paradise Island is also a good place to go, there are many islands in the middle of the Red Sea, like sack islands, but the difference is that the islands here are almost non-organic except sand, they are like the desert and the children of the Red Sea, with the loneliness of a father and the affection of a mother. They are tightly surrounded by the desert and the Red Sea, but they can't stop the innocent beauty and playfulness.

The Red Sea is sandwiched by tropical deserts on the east and west sides, and the air is hot and dusty all year round, and there are few super bright days. The precipitation is low, but the evaporation is very high, the salinity is 40.1‰, and the surface water temperature exceeds 30C in summer, which is the highest water temperature and salinity in the world.

This Memphis is not the Memphis of Tennessee, USA, but the oldest capital of Egypt. It is located at the southern end of the Nile Delta in Egypt, 23 kilometers southwest of Cairo. Rasina village. The world's first pyramids were born in Memphis.

As one of the earliest cradles of human civilization, Memphis is naturally one of the oldest cities in the world, with a history of nearly 5,000 years. In 3100 B.C., Pharaoh Menes built the first capital, the White City, after unifying Upper and Lower Egypt, because the buildings were said to be covered with white plaster.

It was later renamed "Memphis". The capital of the Old Kingdom of Egypt never moved, so at that time, Memphis was the most magnificent and great city in the world. Even though the pharaohs of the Middle Kingdom and the New Kingdom moved their capital to Thebes, Memphis is still one of the important cities in Egypt, and it is a famous religious and cultural city in Egypt.

After 1000 B.C., the Kush Kingdom, Assyria, the Persian Empire, the Greek and Roman Empires besieged and occupied Memphis. But the bad thing was when the Arabs conquered Egypt in the 7th century AD. Memphis was devastated. Today, the miniature museum in Memphis is like the Old Summer Palace.

All that remains are broken stone statues and inscriptions for posterity to hang on, but the overall area is less than one-tenth of the Old Summer Palace, but the huge granite statue of Ramses II is quite impressive.

Memphis' museums are the smallest in the world. It is famous for its many relics from the first capital of Egypt, the most famous of which is the giant granite statue of Ramesses II.

The statue was originally 14 meters tall. It is carved from a single piece of granite and is extremely delicately carved. Despite more than 3,000 years of wind and rain, Ramses II's serene face remains intact, and even the hieroglyphs on the statue are still clearly visible.

Unfortunately, in an earthquake, the statue's legs and left hand were broken, so now Ramses II can only lie sideways in the museum. Most of the statues in China are animals or fairy figures, and most of the statues attach importance to costumes and are crowned with dynamic plots; In addition to animals, most of the statues in Egypt are based on pharaohs themselves.

Sitting or standing, albeit static. But the bones, muscles, and appearance are enough to convey affection, judging from the remaining thighs of the statue of Ramses II, Yunluo really can't believe that this is a work made more than 3,000 years ago, if his leg is not broken, Yunluo really thinks that the realistic leg muscles can make him walk!

It is said that this statue also stands in the square of the Ramus railway station in downtown Cairo and is very spectacular.

In addition to some broken stone carvings, there is also a sphinx representing Amenphisii in the courtyard of the museum. It is 4 meters tall and is carved out of a single 80-ton block of rock.

Egypt is a child of the Nile. His mother, the Nile, not only gave birth to and nurtured him, but also carried all his civilizations. Today, on the Nile, in addition to the pyramids, temples, colossias and other stone records that were once unforgettable, have become more soft and colorful. Fragrant songs and dances, bright moon hooks.

Come to Egypt, come to the Nile, and watch belly dancing on a cruise ship in the metropolis. Generally speaking, this project is a night cruise on the Nile. Accompanied by cheerful music, taste the food on board, and enjoy the exotic belly dance. You can also climb the plywood and blow the river breeze, and Cairo will no longer look so shabby at night.

The lights of the tall buildings and the bright moon overhead are like watermarks on the Nile. Record every night in Egypt together.

Egypt is not only Islam, but a country where Islam and Christianity coexist, and Egyptians believe that those who believe in Islam and Christianity are brothers, and that they should tolerate and love each other. Therefore, the two religions have always coexisted in Egypt and lived in harmony with each other. Most of the churches are concentrated in Cairo, and the mosques are really scattered all over the city.

Cairo is known as the "Ancient City of a Thousand Pagodas" because there are more than 800 mosques in the city built at different times and eras. The city of Cairo is home to many ancient mosques that are famous in the Islamic world.

Such as the Amir Mosque, Al-Azhar Mosque, Saeed Zanabo Mosque, Hussein Mosque, Sultan Hassan Mosque, Muhammad Ali Mosque, etc., the whole city of Cairo is a veritable Islamic museum.

I've been to the church, but I've never entered the mosque, so I'm still quite excited about Nalan Shiqi who entered the mosque for the first time, although the weather is so hot that getting off the bus is like entering the oven, and as a foreign woman, you must also wrap a ghost-like green robe when entering the mosque.

The Amir Mosque was built in 642 A.D., and when Nalan Shiqi and the clouds fell, it was not the time of worship, and it was empty, with a few Muslims listening to the imam's sermons. The red-patterned carpets, round arches, simple chandeliers and ceiling fans really give people a sense of awe.

Everyone sat around the tour guide Su Hai and listened to him explain the religious customs of Muslims. Every Muslim, male or female, must pray five times a day, and Friday is a public holiday in Egypt, and in the afternoon everyone prays in the mosque, and men and women are divided into different areas. The pious Su Hai started to worship seriously after he finished speaking to everyone.

After seeing churches and mosques, Khan El Khalili Market was Nalan Shiqi's last stop in Egypt this time. Khan El Khalili, also located in Cairo, consists of thousands of individual shops spread along dozens of small streets, many of which are said to date back to the 14th century AD, as the place was originally the burial place of the descendants of the three dynasties of Fatme.

In the 14th century, Khan Khalili, the ruler of Egypt at the time, ordered the demolition of the cemetery on the grounds that Fatme was an apostate and had no right to build a cemetery, and financed the construction of a market there. Today, Khan El Khalili Bazaar has become a symbol of Cairo's ancient culture and the Islamic colors of the East, attracting tourists from all over the world who must visit it.

Khan Hari Market is a narrow road lined with small shops selling your own jewelry, copper plates, stone carvings, spices, sedge paintings or all sorts of traditional Egyptian handicrafts.

Girls, if you like jewelry, perfumes, and colorful bottles of perfumes; Men, if you like pyramids, golden camels, and large copper plates; If you're still worried about what to bring home for your friends and family, then buy it all here!

And it's amazingly cheap! But keep in mind that this is the result of a lot of bargaining. If you pay attention to buying things, please pay attention to the next part of Nalan Shiqi, Nalan Shiqi will tell you what is worth buying in Egypt~

What to buy in Europe to buy bags, to buy jeans in the United States, to buy cosmetics in South Korea, to buy in Egypt?

If you think there's nothing worth buying in Egypt, you're very wrong! There are so many things to buy in Egypt, but none of them have anything to do with luxury, and it would be wrong to say that it has nothing to do with it at all, because in Nalan Shiqi's view, many of them are higher than luxury, because they carry endless vicissitudes and civilizations.

Papyrus, also translated as yarn grass, is a plant that grows in water, mainly in the Nile Valley. The stems are slender and erect, triangular in shape; The head resembles a green ear of corn. The paper made of sedge is called sapir paper, which has excellent toughness and is an aquatic plant.

Coupled with repeated processes, even if it is soaked in water, it is still intact after cooling and drying. The earliest Bibles were copied on papyrus and circulated everywhere.

Paintings made with special pigments on papyrus are naturally famous papyrus paintings. In the rectangular pool in front of the Egyptian Museum, there is a "sedge" representing Lower Egypt, and there are many long-standing sedge paintings in the museum, and the magic is that with the passage of thousands of years, the colors on the sedge paintings are still bright and moving.

Although Yunluo is a little lost, because if you don't count the physical changes, Egypt was the earliest paper invented before China. But looking at the beautiful sedge paintings, no matter what, human civilization is praiseworthy. As a half-artistic background, Yunluo must bring home a sedge painting that is love at first sight!

The painting is good, and the price is good. There are usually two places to buy sedge paintings, one is in the local shop where the tour group is taking and the other is in the Khan El Khalili market. The advantage of the shop is fidelity (it is said that there are also untrue), and the painting is delicate, and the disadvantage is expensive; Of course, the quality of Khan Khalili's market is reversed. (To be continued.) )

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