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Travel Blogs from Luxor
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Ok, the title says it all. Non-stop hassel from the locals for taxi, horse and cart, tours, hotels, food, souvenirs, felluca. But the sights were incredible!
Talk like an Egyptian
... There was a roof top restaurant with gorge view of the Nile. The lounge was equipped with internet stations. Woohoo! Looked like we were going to have our stay-cation here.
Our hotel was a true island of tranquility in Luxor´s steamy environment. Sometimes we would walk to the "local" part of the city which looked like India without the curries. Garbage, traffic, vendors, dilapidated buildings and pollution. There were no ...
Then we crash landed in the sugar cane field
... the word guardedly, because if you’d have seen them, you would also use the term ‘bus’ very guardedly). So another ten minutes in this rickety vehicle later we all arrived at the allotted launching site.
WOW! What seemed like total chaos. There were seven big shapes on the ground with men shouting and gesticulating with their arms as they tried to get some sort of semblance of normality from the chaos as balloons were being slowly inflated with ...
Hot day in Paradise
... away. We walked along the main rd, we stopped at a silver jeweler and I bought a beautiful Egyptian silver bangle for a fraction of the price in South Africa, jeweler said business is very slow since the revolution.
We were going to do a tour with the group this afternoon but the is no fuel, they are striking so we will do it tomorrow with the fuel that was set aside for tomorrow when we go to the western side to see the valley ...
Cairo, Giza, Aswan, Luxor & Dahab Egypt
... we also saw an amazing sunrise. When we landed the crew got me and said my car and guide were waiting for me, my Guide was Peter, ( he was amazing) very professional and never out of line. He took me to 3 ancient sites that day, walked with me and explained the history and significance of things we were looking at. He always gave me time alone to explore, he knew his stuff, so at the end of the trip I asked him to call Adel and tell him I wasn't feeling well and didn't need a driver ...
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