CAIRO – As many as 20 European ambassadors and their spouses, including EU Ambassador Christian Berger, spent 36 hours shuttling from Cairo, Alexandria and Kafr el Sheikh amid heavy rains and low temperature to see Egypt’s most famous tourist destinations in the three cities.
They European delegation was fascinated by the ancient civilisation.
Among the destinations they visited is Virgin Mary Church in Sakha town in Kafr el Sheikh where the rock featuring the foot print of Jesus was preserved.
Jesus Christ, as a child, hit the rock with his foot and water split from it after he entered this city accompanied by his mother, the Virgin Mary, during the Holy Family’s Trail in Egypt after they fled from the oppression of the Roman King Herod.
The Holy Child’s foot-print is one of the main stops of the Holy family’s journey in Egypt that started from Bethlehem then to Gaza where they proceeded to El Zaraniq (also known as Floussiat), some 37 km west of El Arish; then they threaded their way along northern Sinai until they reached Farma (ancient Pelusium) mid-way between El Arish and present-day Port-Said.
The European diplomats also visited the Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria as well as Lake of Burullus and fish farms in Kafr el Sheikh.
