Egypt to Palestine part 2

Egypt to Palestine part 2

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 Cairo, they watched boats along the Nile in the evening, and examined Egyptian agricultural methods of threshing, irrigating cotton by hand, and the use of a water wheel. They also witnessed a part of a three day wedding ceremony with fancy riding of Arabian horses, a caravan transporting building stones, and "taxi cabs" (camels) waiting for customers.
From there they returned to Alexandria and traveled to Port Said where they saw coal being loaded onto a ship at the entrance to the Suez Canal, playful dolphins, the train from Cairo passing along the canal, and the statue of DeLesseps, the French engineer and builder of the canal.
It was then on to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, a panoramic view of the city of Jerusalem, a tour of the British world war military cemetery, the Mosque of Omar and a view of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, and a visit to the Garden of Gethsemane.

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

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