Pharaohs Doki Cairo

... is where he is said to have climbed at the age of 120 to look out over all the lands just before dying. From this mountain you can clearly see the exact spot on the River Jordan where it is said that Jesus was baptized. It is one thing to read these stories in the bible and quite interesting to actually see these places close up. <br><br>From here we continued onto the Dead Sea itself. The Dead Sea has 30% salinity, compared to a regular ocean ...

... these days. He even asked Fahim (who is a convert to Islam) what it is like to be a Muslim in America after seeing Fahim's American passport. The other lines seemed to move very quickly. My bags made it to the baggage claim just fine though I was lucky they did. Two other students going to AUC from my flight had to go through about two hours of red tape to report their bags missing and to my knowledge they didn't get them back for a couple of days. I knew SOMETHING had to go wrong ...

... then visit Hatshepsut temple at Deir El Bahari and finally visit Colossi of Memnon, the tow massive statues of Pharaohs Amenhotep III. Overnight on board of the Cruise.<br><br>Day 8:<br><br>Disembarking from the Cruise- Drive via air-conditioned modern van to Hurghada- Transfer to hotel. Overnight in Hurghada.<br><br>Day 9:<br><br>Breakfast at hotel- Breakfast at hotel- Enjoy the marvelous sandy &amp; sunny beach- enjoy swimming- snorkeling ...

... and lack of money are now the end result. We made it to the train station and arranged our ticket to Luxor for tomorrow night on the sleeper train which cost us in US dollars 120 dollars for both of us one way as we planned to make our way to Jordan from down south. It was hot and steamy and the stifling weather takes its toll on energy levels so we had a cup of tea in the train station cafe which looked reasonably clean. We walked back to the hostel to gather our thoughts and plan ...

... gasp at the thougt that I might drop some of the beer...but I caught myself and did just fine.<br><br>Of course now I was about a half mile from the hotel with a 24 rack of beer concealed by a green bag, and I really didn't want to carry it back...so I did what any sensible miscreant would do: I hailed a horse drawn carriage for a ride to the hotel. It was 5 pounds, or about a dollar for the ride and Kat jumped in, offering to pay with her small change.<br><br ...

... the road should be a oneway.<br><br>Being a Woman in Cairo<br>I really don't think I had my own identity as long as I was with Jonathan. One example that clearly sticks out in my mind was ordering at the Starbucks in the Cairo airport as we waited for our flight. I didn't want anything but I still walked up to the counter with Jonathan as he ordered his tea. I did ...

... no stress of haggling. Finally, the shame of it all, we just picked up a bucket of KFC for dinner. The KFC had to go through security check to get into the hotel.<br><br>That night , we tucked into our KFC, watched movies, bathed in luxurious LOOCITANE toileteries and slept like a baby.<br><br>The next morning, chris and I had a lovely swim , then breakfast and then time to say goodbye. It was magical, adventourous, tiring, but definitely, we had a time of our life....