But if you want to see whether the deep Red Sea is blue or red, you need to take a yacht out to sea. In addition to exploring, you can also fish, feed seagulls, and watch dolphins. The best thing is snorkeling. You can easily see more fish than in the Maldives swimming around you. Bring some bread, 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 there is almost no grass on the islands except sand. They are like the children of the desert and the Red Sea, with the loneliness of their father and the affection of their mother. They are tightly embraced by the desert and the Red Sea, but they can't stop their innocent beauty and playfulness.

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

This Memphis is not Memphis in Tennessee, USA, but the oldest capital of Egypt. It is located in the southern end of the Nile Delta in Egypt, in the village of Mit Razina, 23 kilometers southwest of Cairo. The earliest pyramid in the world was created in Memphis.

As one of the earliest birthplaces of human civilization, Egypt's Memphis is naturally one of the oldest cities in the world, with a history of nearly 5,000 years. In 3100 BC, Pharaoh Menes built the first capital "White City" after unifying Upper and Lower Egypt. It is said that the buildings at that time were covered with white plaster powder.

Later, it was renamed "Memphis". The capital of Egypt during the Old Kingdom never moved, so at that time, Memphis was the most magnificent and great city in the world. Even when the pharaohs moved the capital to Thebes during the Middle Kingdom and the New Kingdom, Memphis remained one of the important cities in Egypt and a famous city of Egyptian religion and culture.

After 1000 BC, the Kingdom of Kush, Assyria, the Persian Empire, Greece, and the Roman Empire successively besieged and occupied Memphis. But the worst thing was that when the Arabs conquered Egypt in the 7th century AD, Memphis suffered devastating damage. Today, the mini museum in Memphis is like the Old Summer Palace.

All that remains are broken stone statues and inscriptions for future generations to pay tribute to, but the overall area is less than one-tenth of the Old Summer Palace. However, the huge granite statue of Ramses II is still quite shocking.

The museum in Memphis is the smallest museum in the world. The most important reason for its fame is that it houses many relics of the first capital of Egypt. Among these relics, the most famous is the giant lying granite statue of Ramesses II.

The statue was originally 14 meters high. It was carved from a whole piece of granite and the carving is extremely delicate and exquisite. Although it has gone through more than 3,000 years of wind and rain, the peaceful face of Ramses II is still 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 horizontally in the museum. Chinese statues are mostly animals or gods, and most of them emphasize clothing and dynamic plots; while Egyptian statues, in addition to animals, are mostly pharaohs themselves.

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

It is said that there is another statue of this kind, standing in the square of Ramous Railway Station in downtown Cairo, which is very spectacular.

In addition to some incomplete stone sculptures, there is also a sphinx representing Amenphis II in the museum courtyard. It is 4 meters high and is also carved from a single piece of 80-ton rock.

Egypt is the child of the Nile. The mother Nile not only gave birth to and nurtured Egypt, but also carried all its civilizations. Today, in addition to the pyramids, temples, and colossi that were once invincible, the Nile has become more beautiful and colorful. There are fragrant songs and dances, and the bright moon is crescent-shaped.

When you come to Egypt and the Nile River, you will watch belly dancing on the cruise ship. Generally speaking, this project is a night cruise on the Nile River. Accompanied by cheerful music, you can taste the food on the boat and appreciate the exotic belly dancing. You can also climb on the deck and feel the river breeze. Cairo no longer looks so shabby under the night sky.

The lights of the tall buildings and the bright moon above are like watermarks on the Nile River, recording every night in Egypt.

Egypt is not a country where Islam and Christianity coexist, and Egyptians believe that those who believe in Islam and Christianity are brothers and should tolerate and love each other. Therefore, these two religions have always coexisted peacefully and harmoniously in Egypt. Most churches are concentrated in Cairo, while mosques are really scattered throughout the city.

Cairo is known as the "City of a Thousand Minarets" because there are more than 800 mosques in the city built in different periods and eras. There are many ancient grand mosques in Cairo that are famous in the Islamic world.

Such as the Amir Mosque, Al-Azhar Mosque, Sayyid Zaynab Mosque, Hussein Mosque, Sultan Hassan Mosque, Muhammad Ali Mosque, etc. The entire city of Cairo is a veritable Islamic museum.

I have been to church but never to a mosque, so Nalan Shiqi was quite excited about entering a mosque for the first time, even though the weather was extremely hot and it felt like entering an oven as soon as I got off the bus. And as a female outsider, I had to wrap myself in a ghost-like green robe to enter the mosque.

The Amir Mosque was built in 642 AD. It was not prayer time when Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo went there. The mosque was empty except for a few Muslims listening to the imam's sermon. The red patterned carpet, round arches, simple chandeliers and ceiling fans really gave people a feeling of awe.

Everyone sat around the tour guide Suhai and listened to him explain the religious customs of Muslims. Every Muslim, regardless of gender, must pray five times a day. Friday is a public holiday in Egypt. In the afternoon, everyone must go to the mosque to pray. Men and women are divided into different areas. After the pious Suhai finished his explanation, he began to pray seriously.

After visiting churches and mosques, Khan El-Khalili Market was Naran Seqi's last stop in Egypt. Khan El-Khalili is also located in Cairo. It consists of thousands of small individual shops distributed in dozens of small streets and alleys. It is said that many shops can be traced back to the 14th century AD because this place was originally the cemetery of the descendants of the three dynasties of Fateme.

In the 14th century, the then Egyptian ruler Khan El-Khalili ordered the demolition of the cemetery on the grounds that Fatmeh was an apostate and had no right to build a cemetery, and funded the construction of a market here. Today, the Khan El-Khalili Market has become a symbol of Cairo's ancient culture and oriental Islamic colors, attracting tourists from all over the world to come and visit.

The roads in Khan Khali Market are narrow and lined with small shops. The vendors are eager to sell you their own jewelry, copper plates, stone carvings, spices, papyrus paintings or a wide variety of traditional Egyptian handicrafts. Of course, they are no longer handmade now, and it feels very much like the old Dashilan!

Girls, if you like jewelry, perfume, and colorful bottles of perfume; men, if you like pyramids, golden camels and big copper plates; if you are still worried about what to bring home to give to relatives and friends, then buy as much as you want here, there is everything here, everything is included!

And the price is surprisingly cheap! But remember that this is the result of a big bargain. If you are interested in shopping, please pay attention to Nalan Shiqi's next article. Nalan Shiqi will tell you what is worth buying in Egypt~

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Go to Europe to buy bags, go to the United States to buy jeans, go to South Korea to buy cosmetics, what should you buy in Egypt?

If you think there is nothing worth buying in Egypt, you are totally wrong! There are so many things to buy in Egypt, but none of them are luxury goods. It is not right to say that they are completely unrelated, because in Nalan Shiqi's opinion, many of them are higher than luxury goods, because they carry endless vicissitudes and civilization.

Papyrus, also known as sedge, is a plant that grows in water and is mainly distributed in the Nile River Basin. The stem is slender and upright, in a triangular shape; the head is like a green corn ear. Paper made from papyrus is called sedge paper, which has excellent toughness and is aquatic.

With repeated craftsmanship, even if it is soaked in water, it will remain intact after drying. The earliest Bible was copied on papyrus and circulated everywhere.

The paintings made on papyrus with special pigments are naturally the famous papyrus paintings. In the rectangular pool in front of the Egyptian Museum, there is the "papyrus" representing Lower Egypt, and there are many papyrus paintings with a long history in the museum. The amazing thing is that after thousands of years, the colors on the papyrus paintings are still bright and moving.

Although Yunluo felt a little disappointed, because if physical changes are not counted, Egypt invented paper before China. But looking at the beautiful papyrus paintings, no matter what, human civilization is praiseworthy. As a half-artist, Yunluo must bring home a papyrus painting that he fell in love with at first sight!

The paintings are good and the prices are good. There are usually two places to buy papyrus paintings, one is the local store brought by the tour group, and the other is the Khan el-Khalili market. The advantage of the store is that it is authentic (it is said that some are not authentic) and the paintings are delicate, but the disadvantage is that it is expensive; the quality of the Khan el-Khalili market is of course the same. (To be continued...)