So at first Egypt was quite hellish! Cairo wasnt so much fun because of all the people and the other reasons we had listed. Getting down to Aswan was the perfect change. The train ride down was very nice with some excellent air conditioning. It was 23degrees inside the train, and turned out to be 45 Degrees in Aswan when we got out. The biggest difference was having air conditioning in our room. When you have somewhere that is 10x cooler as an escape it makes things much, much better. We woke up at 3am and had a hugh trip that started. We had breakfast packed up and some crackers and stuff from the night before. We got to see Abu Simbel which was a 3 hour drive from our hotel. We drove straight through the desert towards the Sadan border. There is 1 trip a day that goes so there were about 20 buses/mini buses that all had an escort from the police down to the sites. Terrorist attacks from some years ago made the security measures go up ten fold here. Police are everywhere with their AK-47's dangling from their necks. More guns in a stretch of 20 feet then i'm sure we have in all of Canada put together. We continued to an Island called Philae which has the Temple of Isis and was one of our favorites of the trip so far. The next day we started our Felucca ride up towards Luxor. We expected the heat to get very high again , but also though the nile would keep us cool. Between the hours of 1-4 pm the heat was extremely taxing. The sun rises, the food the captain cooked, and the sun sets were incredible. We paid $20.00 Canadian for 2.5 days of relaxing and sleeping on the boat. We stopped on certain islands and slept for the night, and got to explore a little. The Nile's water was quite cool and refreshing, and was cleaner then the majority of water we had seen (though we would never , ever , drink it). We saw some more temples once we got off the felucca ride. One is the Temple of Edfu which is dedicated to the old god Horus. It was preserved extremely well.
In Luxor we are staying in a hotel called Nefertiti. It seems ok so far, pool table up stairs, internet access. We will be starting some site seeing tomorrow, Luxor musuem, Valley of the Kings, and many tombs. We will be happy to stop with the moving around so much. After Luxor we will head to Dahab and see if we can find a comfortable spot for a week or so, then off to Jordon to see Petra. We are both very excited to see Petra as it is supposed to be one of the best spots in the middle east, site wise.
We will update again soon!
Love Skyler and Rinah
10 comments:
looks great! I could go for that trip on the nile, sounds about my kind of pace right now.... Actually, I have a small trip next week to sagada, but it is more of a "business trip"..I'll just have to make the most of it. Glad to hear you guys are still having a good time. Nice pictures.
It is official, I am jealous. You guys keep it up out there and see everything you can. I think if you shaved your head (Rinah), and kept the camera about 30 feet away I could tell people it is me. Just a thought.
That is one of the wierdest things I've read today... and I feel a bit uncomfortable thinking about it!!
This is Skyler by the way.
I do apologize for Yavon writing that. She is a little on the strange side. I mean, she hasn't even met you guys yet!
You will pay Jesse.. You will pay!!
don't you think the fourth picture down makes you look like "giants"? uhh. yeah. I was loling, but then again, I am stressed out and tired of school, so whatever.
oh wait. i get it... i clicked on the pic to enlarge, and discovered that you really are giants. that explains everything now.
You guys do look like giants. that is really weird.
Looks like a wonderful and interesting place... but too hot for me.....we will email you as to when we are arriving in Israel.
Be well, have fun.
UM & as
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