{"id":279,"date":"2005-04-14T10:07:01","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T02:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2005\/04\/2005_04_14_1007.php"},"modified":"2005-04-14T10:07:01","modified_gmt":"2005-04-14T02:07:01","slug":"egypt-day-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/14\/egypt-day-04","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: day 04"},"content":{"rendered":"

WARNING: these posts have not yet been proof-read. It’s difficult to find decently priced internet connections here. The actual<\/strong> posting time of these entries is April 22, in Jerusalem – in the Olive Tree hotel… with free WiFi!<\/em><\/p>\n

2005.04.13<\/p>\n

\n\"\"<\/a>\n*Pilgrimage Day 4*\n<\/center>\n\n

Day 4<\/h1>\n

Philae Temple<\/h2>\n

We kicked off day 4 by going to Philae Temple,<\/em> a temple made in the Greco-Roman period… contracted by no less than Alexander himself. Apparently Alexander had claimed to be the next Pharaoh and created this temple as a tribute to Isis and Osiris.<\/p>\n

Essences<\/h2>\n

Next, we visited some perfume place. Actually it was an essence<\/em> place. For those who don’t know. Essences are fragrances extracted from natural oils of their respective sources. They have a number of benefits because of these inherent properties they possess:<\/p>\n

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  • Non-flammable as they have no alcohol whatsoever<\/li>\n
  • Not subject to evaporation as they are oil-based<\/li>\n
  • Perfumes are actually derived from them by adding 9 parts of alcohol for every one part of essence<\/li>\n
  • I would assume the effect\/smell would last longer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    To the egyptians, these essences can be used for various things – fragrance, healing, sexual enhancement, etc. Sort of like what Chinese have, only difference is that the Chinese have a single<\/strong> solution for every<\/em> ailment. I took home the essence that matches my favorite scents (and work well with my body’s chemistry): CK Be<\/em> and Daviduff’s CoolWater.<\/em> Too bad they didn’t have Bulgari.<\/em><\/p>\n

    Of particular note, was that I was finally<\/em> able to smell (and journal) Frankincense<\/em> and Myrrh.<\/em> Myrrh is supposed to be a healing essence (for allergies, Mom actually bought some for me), Frankincense I forget. Frankincense smells like those vanilla fragrances women use, and doesn’t degrade well – or maybe it just doesn’t agree with my body chemistry. Myrrh on the other hand, was a blast from the past, as it smelled like those little scented “kisses” we used to have in our pencil cases in the 90s.<\/p>\n

    In any case, I know what gold is, and I now<\/em> know about the other useless gifts Jesus received from those three wise men\/kings.<\/p>\n

    Motorboat-ing in the Nile<\/h2>\n

    On our way back to the Liberty,<\/em> we had a motorboat ride around this island in the Nile. I forget the name and why it was important in the first place (I was busy trying to get a decent bird-in-flight-shot<\/em>). But as far as I recall, it had some sort of Mausoleum some dude made for someone. And that according to Fr. Vic, the island was one of the places in Egypt the Israelites had settled in.<\/p>\n

    Liberty<\/h2>\n

    Upon returning to the Liberty, we decided to take a dip in the pool. It was a hot day, but windy. You couldn’t really feel the “cold” of the wind because of the sun, but let me tell you that once you get in that pool it would be a mistake to even try to get out. Not to mention that the pools water was a tad too cold for Filipino tastes – it was The Pool of Hypothermia.<\/em><\/p>\n

    The other night there was some circus\/freakshow in the form of bellydancing, etc. Tonight however were free cocktails. Now I don’t drink, but even I would have to say that they sucked. Egyptians simply don’t do food. The first day in the restaurant (and hotel) seemed to have gotten our hopes up, but it was all downhill from there starting from that stupid Chinese restaurant. Apparently these Egyptians, even after having “spices” as a commodity for export, can’t quite put any flavor in foreign food they try to make. So far, we only had 3 good meals: The dinner from the first day, the breakfast (in the hotel) of the second, and our lunch in Giza. A fouth “meal” could be considered on day 03 where we had the impromptu excursion to some shawarma place and smoked some shiesha.<\/em> The rest of the time, we even would consider airline food to taste better.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    WARNING: these posts have not yet been proof-read. It’s difficult to find decently priced internet connections here. The actual posting time of these entries is April 22, in Jerusalem – in the Olive Tree hotel… with free WiFi! 2005.04.13 *Pilgrimage Day 4*<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[380,920],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-egypt","tag-pilgrimage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}