Amarante Osiris Luxor

... Al Fustat" as a capital of Egypt. The monuments of this era appeared clearly .The famous and most important of them are the citadel of Salah al-Din and also a distinctive group of mosques in the heart of Cairo Crossing over the beauty of design in the Islamic era. Egypt has a great fortune of the Islamic civilization signals. Let us see el sultan Hassan mosque<br>from www.traveldealsegypt.com

... the middle of the road with oncoming traffic. We drove through this seedy looking lane and stopped at our hotel, we looked at eachother and didnt know what we got ourselves into. The hotel was actually quite nice but at 4am the celebration for the muslim ramadan (a religious fasting month) ended and the mosques were belting out all these prayers and songs. We had to be up to meet our guide at 9am so didnt get much sleep at all.<br><br>We woke and had a great view of the ...

... egypt, to enter we had to walk through an "Metal Detector" and put our bags through an "X Ray Machine." The metal detector beeps anytime someone walks through it, but the guard never looked twice. The "X Ray Machine" was a conveyor belt that had a looped image of the same fake bag. It made us all feel really safe. In the end, we thought the 25 pound entrance fee was worth it because we saw a mummified ram, alligator, cat and ibis and best of all we stood in Airconditioning for an ...

... and cooling down and reading up on our destination tomorrow. <br> I couldn't face much of dinner due to unsettled stomach..didn't drink any tap water I swear! Dan has the same problems, lucky we have medical supplies ..although 6 Gaviscon tablets later and Dan is still in some pain. In search of milk, our tour guide Mohammad gave Dan a ranitidine tablet and that seems to have done the trick. Late start tomorrow morning with 7am wake up call :)

... the West came to power. Nor could he support a fight for democracy that shakes up the Egyptian state. His risk aversion allows him to accept the state for what it is: a keeper of stability allowing Western tourists to feel "safe." To be quite honest, I don't feel that safe with the submachine guns in the street...but I do feel safer than I'd probably feel looking at the submachine guns in Syria...<br><br>But anyway, now that Obama's speech has happened, I will say I ...

... cheesy as it sounds but gave us a flavor to see it in the daytime later. So today was a freaking long day. Got up at 5 to make it to the other side of the Nile where we boarded donkeys to the edge of the Valley of the Kings. First time on a donkey, what fun!! They are surprisingly obediant and although I was starting to feel numb towards the end, not that uncomfortable. So the Valley of the Kings was interesting. We saw the tombs of Tutmosis 3rd, Ramses 1st and Ramses ...

... visit every day and marvel at the ancient ways and their dedication to their Gods. We also visited the other sites in Luxor, between finding shade from the 102 degree heat, tried not to get coerced into every shop and stall to look at the handicrafts of every local craftsman. Loved the valley of the Kings and crawling down into the tombs as well as seeing the Collasus of Memnon enroute to the temples on the west bank. Next we go off to the ocean and snorkeling in Dahab

... and about the Jews' flight from Egypt to Israel. It's appropriate that today I've booked my own flight from Egypt to Israel, three days earlier than expected, because I want to get away from Egyptian people as fast as I can and into the land of my own people. In spite of this, the ancient sites in Egypt are awesome, and the rest of the group look to be having an exciting time after I leave - relaxing in Dahab on the ...

... statues of Amenhotep III which stand close to 70 feet tall. They are all that&#8217;s left of a massive temple that didn&#8217;t survive the power of the Nile over the years. Why is it named after Memnon and not Amenhotep III? Good question. It used to be a popular tourist attraction in Greco-Roman times because of the belief they were really statues of Memnon, King of Ethiopia who was killed by Achilles during the Trojan War. After that we drove into the spectacular Temple of ...

... Finally a dockworker came with a palm frond and whipped them away (without really hurting them). The boys were well equipped. They had empty film cases they threw up to the boat, and then they motioned and yelled for "dinero" to be put inside. This obviously wasn&#8217;t improvisation&#8230;<br><br>We arrived in Luxor around 17:00 and by that time I felt well enough to go for a walk ...