Luxor is where we based ourselves for the 2 week holiday which was good as there was lots to do in this town. We also stayed at a small hotel not on the Nile to save money which was good because we had a really good view of Luxor temple from our window. One of the first things we did here was the Luxor temple which was really interesting as it had only been rediscovered in the 1800s and only fully excavated by 1960. It also has only one obelisk because the othe...

These blogs are just to make our whole blog a complete collection of where we have been travelling together. This was our first holiday together aged 16 with mum and paul. We went to Cairo for a day trip and to be honest it was a horrible experience from start to finish. I think we all would agree we wouldn't do it like that again if we were to do it again. Hopefully Thomas cook has changed this trip by now but I highly doubt it. Firstly we arrived off the pla...