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Luxor - Our stupidity made it hell on earth
Back onto the hot bus! my god, it was a nightmare. Andy seemed to enjoy it enough though by sticking his head out the window. I swear that boy was a dog in his previous life! So it took about another hour and a half, two hours to get to Luxor.
We were so happy to finally get inside our hotel, I read some pretty bad reviews on it before …
Luxor: East Bank
Luxor is a cute town, some great places to eat (a great place to eat was Oasis) and sit. There are some great markets too.
We stayed at New Everest Hostel and they picked us up from the train station and brought us to the hostel. It was very nice of them, even though it was like a 4 minute walk from the station to the hostel. But it was nice …
Luxor
Ah Egypt, where the minibuses take you where you don't want to go and tell you your hostel is closed/burned down/torn down to excavate a recently found ancient Egyptian road. Where horse carriage drivers follow you around and hassle you to take a ride ("you want carriage? very cheap, know how much? know how much? I can take you to market, big sale …
More Temples
... rendering of what the various rooms would have looked like when they were fairly new and everything in the temple was painted or gold/silver leafed. The temples were under construction for over 100 years with information from the various kings that ruled while the temples were active. With the Luxor temple our guide was also able to show how this temple (and many other monuments and ...
Then we crash landed in the sugar cane field
... and be totally sociable. Those were the orders from Alex! So naturally we obliged. Hope you like the few pics and short video of the bride & Groom walking into the reception which was held in a Country
House built in the early 1500’s. A truly wonderful event.
Now for the bad news. The tenants living in our house deliberately did their best to trash it just before they left. So Dyana & I have been hard at work for the last few weeks getting it ...