Well, what an awesome time we have had so far. Since our last blog, we caught an overnight train from Cairo (north Egypt) to Aswan (south Egypt). In the early 60's the Egyptians built a huge dam in Aswan so that they could control the flooding of the Nile and also power Egypt (and a few other countries) with Hydroelectricity. After that we took a 15 minute boat ride to an island just down stream of the dam. On the island was an ancient Egyptian temple called Phil...

We are writing this from an internet cafe in Cairo. Kerry and I arrived in Cairo (from Heathrow) at about 2am yesterday morning. We were thoroughly spoilt in the BA lounge before our flight. Kerry and I necked quite a bit of booze before our flight and continued on with good food and wine during the flight. Our Cairo cabbie taught us quite a bit of Arab lingo during our 25 min cab ride, it has been really helpful as i notice that the locals are suprised (and plea...