Pola Luxor

... Peter. Once they were gone I went back to writing in my journal. It started to get dark on the roof so I went back to my new room and had a shower before our last group dinner. We were supposed to meet on the roof and we still needed to organise our tip for Mohamed, I was supposed to write on the envelope but I couldn't think of anything clever so I decided to wait and ask Mark and Willy. I was upstairs waiting and Mohamed arrived but the rest of the ...

... It takes a good 5 minutes to cross it, and it was a pain for us since we did not notice the ticket counter the first time, and had to walk all the way back to buy tickets, then back again to the temple. For future note, the ticket counter is after the mini museum with the diorama of the site, 180 degrees around [looking back at the building] on the right next to the gift shop in a tiny window on the wall. Anyway, student tickets are 35 pounds, and ...

Early breakfast today and our bags packed as it was our last day aboard. We then got on our coach and headed to the magical Valley of the Kings. For 500 years Egypt's most well known pharaohs were buried in tombs all over the area and tombs are still being discovered today! We were now visiting the more popular tourist areas so the crowds were greater. Security was tighter with more rules about photography and lots of tourism police and guards ...

... 34.

Ben and Leslie are newlyweds from Vancouver...They are seriously newlyweds. They got married in Santorini the Monday before the start of the tirp, but they had quite a pre-wedding and a short true honeymoon in Greece before coming to Egypt. Leslie is a travel agent and Ben does tech crew professionally for a theater company. He has been on the crew on shows pretty much all over, including a tour of China. Leslie is 25, Ben is 27.

Emma and Lee are ...

... sense of peace and well-being. You can see it on Bonnie's face in the pictures I took. What a treat it was watching the sun set over the Nile, the sand hills bathed in the glow of yellows and reds. Earlier in the day, we had taken a motorboat to a Nubian restaurant which laid out a sumptuous meal of many dishes for us to sample. We felt like royalty as dish upon dish appeared. Capped off with an Egyptian beer to stave off the thirst of the day, not a bad way to dine ...

... and also to fill the bus up to the brim with passengers. Again we saw some 'tourist rage' as an English girl travelling alone refused to have an Egyptian male sit next to her as she said none of them could be trusted! Once they had sorted that out the rest of the journey was long and pretty uneventful apart from the obligatory security checks. We did stop at one place and play with a friendly puppy, the owner even offered for Cesca to take him with her.

... form of travel. I did start when the piolet said he was getting out. It was an Egyptian landing soft and on a road. Loads of adults and children came to see and chatted to us. Everyone practicing their English. After that we went to the valley of the Kings, so very hot. I even went into all three tombs the first being a nightmare which got worse when the lights went out. I did manage to control a ...

... know the flood was coming and how good it would be for the farmers. The priests at this temple also used it to catch crocodiles, which they then mummified to appease Sobek. The mummified crocs were really cool.

That night was dress up night on the ship so we haggled and bough our galabyas and headdresses and headed back to the ship. Our whole tour group was decked out, even little Chelsea the 6 month old Aussie member of our group, and we had a great time at the ...

... réverbérée de mauvaise qualité comme pour mieux simuler la réalité. Sans que je m’en rende compte, mon voisin de droite avait déjà entamé des basculements de tête sur sa tablette avant la projection, comme immersion, on ne pouvait mieux faire.

À la sortie de l'avion, les 31°C annoncés en cabine ne nous paraissent pas si étouffant. L'air est doux, légèrement moite ; il nous enveloppe comme une caresse, produisant une sensation très agréable. La navette nous récup ...

... the spectacular Luxor Temple (the one I visited yesterday) which as always was lit up at night. The food was actually great, the company was fantastic and the beers were cold so it ended up being an excellent night. Before we knew it taxi drivers were honking their horns like crazy so we then realised it was then 2008. We were eventually kicked out the restaurant around 2.30am when the place closed up. It will definitely be a New Years I won't soon forget.