Egypt to Palestine part 1

Egypt to Palestine part 1

Iowa State College landscape architecture professor Philip H. Elwood took students on a tour in the summer of 1930. This video covers highlights of the Egypt and Palestine portions of that trip. In Alexandria, Egypt the group makes a visit to an outdoor restaurant pavilion that was typical of all Oriental and European parks in this modern summer resort and shipping center. Also shows a typical crowd at a railroad station as they prepare to depart for Cairo.
The next stop was Heliopolis, a modern suburb and sporting resort of Cairo. By camels they visited the pyramids of Gizeh and stopped to rest in the desert near the Sphinx. Returning to Cairo they viewed the city from the heights of the Citadel, watched the English Tommies who were standing guard, and examined the Moorish architectural details. Traveling back out into the Sahara where it was 120 degrees, they viewed the site of the Metropolitans Museum's recent excavations, the Great Step Pyramid and site of the tomb of Pernab.
Back to Heliopolis the group sees the Heliopolis Palace Hotel, modern apartments, the grandstand and Sultan's Royal Box, and the Indian Palace.

P. H. Elwood (Philip Homer), b. 1884

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