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Edfu, Kom Ombo and Discovering the Ancient Egyptians used ice compresses…
December 31, 2004
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Edfu Temple on the Nile River
Edfu was our first stop as we made our way south towards Aswan. Here was where we met our new guide. He spoke English better than our first guide, but overall was not much more competent then the first guide.…
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Abu Simbel, the High Dam, the Unfinished Obelisk, Philae Temple and Staying at the Arabesque Hotel (or “Using Towels the Ancient Egyptians Might Have Used…”)
December 31, 2004
Abu Simbel Early the next morning, we left for Abu Simbel. Abu Simbel borders Sudan, and there is heavy security. Tourists from Aswan are forced to join an early morning motor convoy to the site, several sleepy hours away.…
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Kom Ombo to Aswan: Ditching our Tour Guide for Good, Tombs of the Nobles
December 31, 2004
Life along the Nile River.Kom Ombo to Aswan isn’t a very long trip. At this point, we’d had it with our tour guide. We were supposed to be taken to the Unfinished Obelisk, the High Dam, and Philae Temple.…
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Karnak Temple Sound and Light Show, Ditching our Tour Guide and Getting Stuck in a Cruise ship Line Up
December 30, 2004
Vaguely re-assured, we headed out that evening by ourselves to the Karnak Temple sound and light show. There are various shows throughout the evening in various languages – although to be honest, the language was sort of irrelevant.…
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Our Nile Cruise Begins…
December 29, 2004
Our boat was called the Aton and was run by Selection Hotel. It's not a conventional cruise boat, it's more like a floating hotel. The next day the horror of our cruise began.…
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Getting from Hurghada to Luxor and the Happy Land Hotel
December 28, 2004
The Upper Egypt Travel bus we took from Hurghada to Luxor. The bus to Luxor was half an hour late. We were lucky to get seats. You can’t buy seats in advance (as it’s not an originating point), so there’s just a mad scramble to get seats as the bus pulls in.…
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Hurghada
December 27, 2004
The Sheraton had arranged a taxi for us to get to the fast shuttle boat to Hurghada. We had to go through security as if we were getting on a plane.…
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Sharm-el-Sheikh: Sheraton Sharm-el-Sheikh and Snorkeling in Ras Muhammad National Park
December 26, 2004
There are no direct buses to Sharm-el-Sheikh from Mount Sinai- it’s necessary to go through Dahab. The one bus for Dahab leaves at 1pm. We took a taxi down from the Monastery (which doesn’t accept credit cards by the way, but does accept US$), and instead of taking 2 buses
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St. Catherine’s Monastery and Mt. Sinai
December 25, 2004
We took the Upper Egypt Company direct bus to St Catherine’s. It’s a 9 hour trip. It took us about 2 hours to get out of Cairo, owing in large part to a 1 hour stop at another bus station on the edge of the city.…
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