Meeting review

Test dive 28.03.2003

 On Friday the 28.03.03 seven tall ones at the exchange school met "Diveteam" to a small training course in dipping.

We drove from there to the natatorium into Barsbuettel. Here we got the equipment only times shown in the dry one. Then it went into the water and the heavy equipment was put on. We should submerge now with the head and breathe by the lung automat.
I had a bad bad feeling thereby, but it went better than I thought. One could breathe air completely normally, exactly as over water. With the applying minutes also the breath rhythm normalized itself...


... and I caught the environment at me to regard. Now it continued to go into the deep water. The dipping teachers showed us slowly and carefully, how one moves under water. Thus it went down up to 3.5 meters.
 
 

And then it was already to end our Schnuppertauchen. Nearly too briefly, but we had at 22.00 o'clock from resound its. Thank you at Lutz Baumgardt for this mad experience and the organization.
Ralf Fritsche

 

Journey to the country of the Pharaonen 28.02.2003

 To 28.02.03 the KLM started its culture journey into the oldest realm of the earth. In the late evening 30 KLM travelers met in Cairo in a great hotel.  

Members and non-members from all parts of Germany and our KLM Europapraesident from Switzerland participated in the journey. On the early morning of the next daily it went then loosely to the inspection of the ruins from Memphis. Here approx. 3000 v developed. Chr. the first Egyptian realm and the time of the Pharaonen began. Subsequently, we visited the first stufenpyramide 2670 v. Chr. in Sakarra and then the famous three pyramids of Gizeh approx. 2500 v. Chr. with the sphinx. The taking fatiguing then in the evening still Cairo at night from above from a turning restaurant regarded.
At the 3. Day was visited then the large Egyptian museum, among other things with the grave treasure of the Tutenchamun. After the attendance of the largest Middle East bazaar "Khan el-Khalili" we flew this before 2 years activated Nile cruise ship in the evening to Luxor and went on board the ms Magic II. became for the remainder of the journey our exzellentes accomodation. The meal was so good and plentiful that so some Mitreisende must probably insert a chamfering cure after the vacation.
 		  
  In the next days Horus alternated -, Karnak and Luxor temples with Botani garden, Beduinendorf and Aswan dam. On the way we were with sailing boat (Felluke), kutsche, motorboat, camel naturally again and again and with our cruise ship. Sufficient time was by the travels on the Nile on sun-hits a corner itself between the trips to recover. Some of us made still another excursion with the airplane after Abu Simbel.
 
For this one had to rise at 3.00 o'clock, however we were punctual at 6.00 o'clock to the sunrise in the temple plant, which presents itself turned toward the east in a wonderful light. The entrance to the temple is framed by 20 m high Kolossalstatuen of Ramses II.. Also after 2000-3500 years the well received buildings of the Pharaonen with partly still well visible colors impressed us deeply.
 		  
  After 10 days it was called parting then for most of us takes and back in cold Germany. For four members of the group there was still another one-week extension in form of one bath vacation in Hurghada. We thank our travel guide Mustafa for clarifying all questions and Klaus Fey for the organization of the journey.
Bernd Rojahn