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Last week, I visited a kindergarten. The children in this kindergarten are a little different, they all have problem in hearing. The kindergarten is actually a pre-school teaching them how to properly pronounce and speak.

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From July 2nd, a ferocious heat clamped down Beijing. That was the 1st hot day in 2010, I was out in the street for a whole day, by 7:00 PM, the sky came to be like this.

Hurghada, Alexandria and Memphis were my last three days schedule, I just put them together here. There was about 4 hours drive from Luxor to Hurghada, all the way north east to the Red Sea, there was almost nothing but desert, by the sunset we were at the hotel. The next day was totally free, we joined a tour on a not very new yacht for the Island of Paradise, on the way back, the yacht stopped for snorkeling.

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Luxor or Thebes, the “world’s greatest open air museum”, was the ancient capital of Egypt. If there is a counterpart of a city in China, I would say Xi’an. Our local guide told me, any dig into the ground, you will find some antiques, private archaeological evacuation is totally forbidden!

Personally I would say Luxor is the most pretty city in Egypt, but it is also the hottest city, not only in the sense of tourists attraction, but in temperature as well, the last rain was 6 years ago.

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Horus, the protector, was one of the oldest and most significant deities in the Ancient Egyptian religion.

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I will go to Egypt again two days later, my second time to Egypt within a month! I will take more photos, and hopefully get up some more touch about this amazing country.

By the way, my site has reached its limit in space, as I was very reluctant to reduce my photo’s quality during the processing, the result… those photos have taken up too much space in the server, it seems I have to make a mass re-process in the coming weeks.

Come back with more and better photos.

Temple of Philae in the year of 1800.

The temple was built for Isis, the goddess of Love and Beauty, originally on a small island called Philae. With the completion of Aswan Low Dam in 1902, most part of the temple was submerged, from 1960 a UNESCO project was carried out in order to relocate the complex, more 40,000 pieces were reestablished in another island Agilkia, situated on higher ground some 500 meters away.

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We arrived in Cairo in an early flight (05:40 AM) on 29th of April. While everyone in Beijing said we have a late spring this year, no problem in Egypt, it was already in hot summer, hot but not humid. I cannot sleep during the flight, my head was still dizzy, we met our local Egyptian guide Yasser at the airport. This was my first time to have a local but not Chinese guide, who supposed to speak Chinese, after some chat with him (a little test), I found that his Chinese was just next to me… by 2 miles…

Yasser told me, he graduated from Cairo University, majored in Chinese, and his teachers were not Chinese but Egyptians as well, wow! He has been doing as a Chinese-speaking guide for some years, and I can see that he is very proud of his job, why not!

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I got to know this proverb from an American lady, all together 6 of us had a 2 days tour around Beijing, the first day 24th was just fine, but still a little foggy, the second day on 25th, the weather was gloomy at first, by evening it was raining and cold.

I am going to Egypt today, there will be very hot. Hopefully when I back, Beijing will be in a real spring.

See more photos of Egypt when I back.

P.S. Today I check the google maps, now it provides GoogleEarth view.

I was trying to make Philadelphia a separate part, but our short stay there makes it impossible.

We checked out from our hotel at New Jersey at 9 am, before lunch time, we found ourselves at the square where erected the Liberty Bell. Philadelphia is holy city in the sense of revolution, just like Yan’an in China, I saw many school kids were organized in group tour.

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