The alarm went off at 3:00am yes that's right I am on holidays and I did say 3am however I knew in my mind that the early morning would be worth it, because we were heading to Abu Simble.It is a three hour drive from Aswan however you have to travel in a convoy with a police officer on board so there are only two departure times 4:00 and 11:00 by going in the morning we miss the afternoon heat at the temple and still have the afternoon free to relax on the boat o...

Today we visited two temples the first was straight after breakfast here in Edfu, the temple for the falcon headed god, Horus.It is the second largest after Karnak and is one of the best preserved ancient temples.It is also the temple that our guide Ibrahim grew up near and one that inspired his passion for Egyptology.Then we re-boarded the ship to cruise to Kom Ombo.Not long after recommencing our voyage we sailed past Ibrahim's village. He was very excited to s...

A 5:45 am pick up for our balloon ride over the West Bank ensured we were up early.The Balloon Company picked us up on the cruise boat and transferred us across the Nile on a ferry to a bus waiting on the west side.We then drove to our balloon that was right near the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut and all 19 of us got into the one balloon.We spent the next 45 min flying over the temple, the Valley of the Queens and Colossi of Memnon.We also had a great view of the cr...

We began our day by driving across the Nile to the West Bank and visiting the Valley of the Kings.To protect these tombs the Ancient Egyptians tried to hide the tombs of their kings in a desolate valley on the west side of the Nile just beyond the green, fertile strip of land on the river bank.Within this Valley there are 62 known tombs one of which is Tutankhamen's.Rene and I paid the extra 100 Egyptian Pound ($20 AUD) to go inside his tomb and see his mummy.The...

We had an 8:15 am pick up so we could make our flight to Luxor, there was a little bit of fog but nothing that would stop us flying in Australia.However it did stop us in Egypt, we had a 4 hour delay.This meant we had to rearrange the whole day.We had to miss Karnak temple because we were not going to have enough time to see it properly. (Ibrahim moved it to the morning of our free day).We went to the hotel first to check in and we were upgraded and had the best ...