Trip Updates
Below, explore all our special blogs. Our current active blog is Pr. Taran’s Sabbatical project blog. You’ll find older trips here too, such as the Egypt trip from earlier this year!
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Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Our Nile River time has come to a close. Today we visited the Philae Temple in Aswan (the furthest south in Egypt we are visiting. The Philae temple was submerged…
Monday, January 26, 2026
Today was very relaxing. We skipped the Temple of Horus at Edfu because we would have had to get up at 6am and join thousands of people off the dozens…
Sunday, January 25, 2026
Half of our group (those who need to be institutionalized) got up at 4am to go on a hot air balloon ride over/near the Valley of the Kings at Luxor…
Saturday, January 24, 2026
We started our day early today. We were up by 5 and went to the Cairo airport to depart for Luxor. It wasn’t a long flight, but between airport chaos…
Friday, January 23, 2026
Today we experienced our second and last day in Cairo. We began by visiting two Coptic Orthodox Churches. The first Church (the Hanging Church) is the oldest church in Egypt…
Thursday, January 22nd, 2026
Our first day of site seeing. After a two day journey to get here (arriving with our luggage in our rooms about 3am last night), we started off with a…