The Breakers Diving & Surfing Lodge Soma Bay

... actually did get off the ground (seemingly, an 8-stage-or-so process toward lift-off)! For the first several seconds of the ride, I was tempted to throw in the towel and get down to find the walkers; I was separated from Murray and the rest of the camel group, skirting around other camels and walkers in the dead of night, and barely able to stay on top of my ridiculously tall, uncomfortable camel. But, for some reason, I stayed with it.

I wish I ...

... its base three times each for good luck (if you want to get pregnant, you must walk around it seven times! Don’t think anyone in our group did the seven times…).

After the Temple of Karnack, we drove the short distance to Luxor Temple, which also was beautiful and massive (yet seemed small in comparison to Karnack!). Largely built by the pharaohs Amenhotep III (1380-1352 BC) and Ramses II (1279-1213 BC), the Temple of ...

... 6 years ago. It's dirty, and there are alot of russian prostitutes running around with egyptian men. Our hotel was definatetly not worth the $21.60 Us we paid, but at least we had a swimming pool.
We couldn't wait to wake up early at 6am to catch the ferry to Sharm El Sheik!! We got to the port and we were told that the ferry was broken for a week!! I was ******! I crushes my water bottle in my hand and yelled ****! hahah... I did.

Soo we took a taxi back into ...

... And the good thing is that because our hotel had an agreement with the nice resort hotel across the street, we could use the amenities there.
Our breakfast was included today and we went across the street for it plus we could also use the pools (yes there were several) plus the hotel had its own patch of beach along the sea.
We had the morning to ourselves with most of us taking the time to just chill out.
We left Hurghada at 2pm with a long drive ahead of us. We were ...

... good photos because of the dust in the air. There was a submarine moored just near our ship and we kept an eye on it but it didn't go anywhere.
We were sitting around the bar because it is out of the sun and we get a little breeze every now and then but it wasn't open, so about midday Pam and Bob and Graeme and I decided it was time to have a drink, so we went down to our cabins and got some beers, ouzo, sangria, red wine and ...

... us in comfort and safety to our hotel for a fraction of the local taxi cost. We used him as our driver for the whole of our stay and even arranged trips to Cairo and Luxor through him again with courteous safe drivers and at a fraction of local/hotel costs.

This service made all the difference to our holiday and I would thoroughly recommend it to all visitors to Egypt. The website is: www.goldencar-eg.org

... in plaster and painted with pictures and hieroglyphics that told about the pharaoh and his life, as he had wished it to be told. The burial chambers were normally located near the end of the tomb along with satellite rooms to hold the pharaoh's processions. We viewed the two recommended tombs. The first was KV8 - Akhenaton and the other was KV9 - Ramses IX. The valley was sand, dirt and rock that was baked in the hot Egyptian Sun. Besides making the site extremely hot, the sun also ...

... are sure there must be a towel folding school somewhere. I relaxed on the beach, read, and snoozed. The cubicle in front of me had two loungers with towels on them. Along comes a man, wife and son. He picks up the towels and puts them on another lounger. An older woman comes over and says to the man, this is my sister's spot, the man says no one is here, she says they have just gone to their room for a moment and will be back shortly. They continue talking and the woman is ...

... to a bazaar to stock up on souvernirs. After Luxor we headed to Hurgada by the red sea where we partied the night away on the beach. The club was so close to the sea you could hear it and I went paddling a couple of times to cool off. In the morning we caught the ferry to Sharm-el Sheik from which we are heading to Dahab.

... keep getting so much better and better, i cant get over how lucky i am. The marine life we saw was like nothing i´ve ever seen. It was seriously like something from ¨finding nemo¨. I swear. Our diver guide took us to many deserted spots and we saw Moray eels- 2mtrs long and an octopus stole one divers camera and they had to chase it to get it back. The visibility was amazing but all very salty.