Wow! I had such a fantastic day here in Dahab, I got to sleep in and after taking a shower I got ready to go out and explore the area on my own. My first time really getting to do this alone since we got to Egypt and needless to say I was quite nervous being a girl walking the streets alone in this foreign place. I sucked it up however and after Lisa and Matt headed off to go diving I headed out in search of the beach! I found a little shop to get my water from ...

So this morning we got up super early to head over to the Nile and meet up with a man named Tayeb to ride a ferry over the Nile to the West Bank and go see the Valley of the Kings, Queens and Hatshepsut Temple. It cost us 1 LE to ride the ferry one way, we sat up on top and could see both Luxor and the West Bank, very pretty! We had arranged a taxi with Tayeb's brother for 25 LE, and it was air conditioned! YAY! I never knew I'd yearn for AC as badly as I have o...

The train was about a 9 hour ride, it was my first time being on a train like that and all I wanted was to sleep! I just couldn't get comfortable, everything hurt and I really needed to be able to stretch out. Lisa had told me the cabin would be extremely cold but the one blanket I took from our flight did the trick! When we got to Luxor we walked to our hostel/hotel called The Oasis. So many people were constantly bugging us for taxi's, hotels, carriage rides, ...

Our last day in Cairo was very uneventful, Lisa was very tired and still sick from being quite dehydrated so we both slept in, first time we've been able to do that! I woke up about 1-ish but she wasn't up, without her I wasn't really wanting to spend more money or time in Coptic Cairo so I stayed in and Mohammad and I had a nice LONG chat! 6 hours!!! We literally discussed anything and everything! Talked about families, politics, pricing differences between US ...

Another amazingly jam packed day in Cairo! We got up early to take the bus to the Pyramids for 1 LE. It was a bit of a drive but Cairo is such a huge city! I think our host said 18 million people live here! The pyramids aren't actually out in the middle of the desert like you would think (or at least like I did), they are right on the edge of Cairo. It was 60 LE for admission (would have been half price if I had brought my student ID but I didn't know that! Bumme...