Gaddis Hotel Luxor

... After about 3 hours, we found out that they were both Property Valuers and Shazza went to RMIT and remembered Rob Webster and James Baxter, the lecturers I had, how freaky is that!!! We got to bed at about 2am and slept like babies until the train arrived at Aswan.
We met our Aswan tour operator - Ahmed a 22 year old guy who spoke excellent english and he took us to our 5 star cruise ship - it was fantastic, we were waited on hand and foot and all the meals were ...

... It was a pleasant hotel and clean and friendly so we had no criticisms at all. It had many rooms and a nice rooftop area but sadly empty.

Tuesday 7th July. Up and on the roof at 7am we had a pleasant breakfast of the usual egg, cucumber, tomato, cheese, flat bread, yoghurt and jam and black tea to start the day. The minivan was full of us backpacker types and we headed across river to the Valley of the Kings and our guide rote like did a speedy synopsis of the site for ...

... there. Melissa teaches science to 7th graders, which as I said are from 11 to 17, in Cameroon in an Anglophile area. She is totall issolated, as is Kat, as it seems are most Peace Corps volunteers. The nearest other foreigner is 2 hours away. She deals daily with the awful hassle of being known simply as "white man" to all around her. At least she speaks the language...Kat lives in a francophone area and upon arrival in Cameroon spoke no French...

Luxor, Egypt jimmyandkristen

... its not a souvenir, its an investment! So then we decided to see Karnak during the daytime, and it was really something. There are more hieroglyphics here than any other place we\ve been to, really easy to walk around and there really wasnt all that many people there. Lots of pics, lots of footage, lots of heat, but we\re used to it now! So were leaving for Cairo on a sleeper train due to arrive at 5 and have only 3 more days in Egypt before Jordan. I have to say its ...

5am wake up to take the boat ride and pick up our donkeys for the 7km trek to the Valley of the Kings. While I was hesitant at first it was a lot more comfortable than I thought it would be. The guys on the other hand did not find it as comfortable and we joked it was the Egyptian version of a vasectomy. After 1km on my donkey, he got hungry so what does he do? cut across the entire group to eat a plant, seconds later I have 3 donkeys ...

An overnight felucca trip brought us up from Aswan to Luxor. We kicked back on the boat, went swimming in the Nile, camped on the banks and had a bonfire. We had bought some alcohol in Luxor to take with us (Volga Vodka, Gordoons Gin, Racardi, John Waller...the good stuff, clearly), so it was a pretty good night with lots of singing and dancing. Today was temple day because on the drive into ...

... temples are built stacked up on top of each other with the ancient Egyptian Luxor temple at the base. The second is a Coptic church from something like 30 AD and on top of that a mosque. The Coptics (Egyptian Christians) had used Luxor temple, and many others, as their churches when they still had to be secretive. Frescoes are painted on top of hieroglyphics in one corner and crosses carved into the stone. Sadly, the Coptics also damaged much of the carving done depicting ...

... Le soleil se lève à l'horizon en se mêlant au Nil. Des paysans cultivent leurs champs avec peu de matériel, un grattoir et leurs mains pour planter les graines.

Depuis la nacelle, nous apercevons quelques enfants à terre qui nous attendent pour tenter de nous vendre des poupées de tissus. Il faut redescendre… un regard circulaire révèle la présence de dizaine d'autres aéronefs autour de nous. La prise de conscience est immédiate, ce que nous ...

... horse and carriage driver offers you). If you can't tell by my tone the Tomb of Nakht, and in fact all tombs of the nobles, are not worth seeing.

I had children who were no older than 3 years old asking me continuously for "1 euro", damn they start young here! Anyway needless to say I was bitterly disappointed.
I know I probably sound like an a**hole complaining about the children asking for money, especially when they probably do ...

... 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’t improvisation…

We arrived in Luxor around 17:00 and by that time I felt well enough to go for a walk ...