I had a reasonably early start this morning and Dad and I went to visit the Luxor museum. We paid the extortionate 80 EGP to get in and were directed around the rather small museum by the guards, which was annoying, because I had only gone there to see one thing and was forced to see everything. Compared to the Cairo museum, this place was virtually empty, I did manage to see the Talatat blocks, which once formed Amenhotep IV's Gem-pa-Aten temple at Karnak which...

We had an early start today to go see the temple of Karnak. We met our guide Tony and then walked to the temple as it is not very far from where we are staying. It was a really hazy horrible day and the haze seemed to trap the heat in, making it muggy as well as hot. We reached the temple and Tony showed us around, despite the fact that I had been here before I still followed the guide around and Tony actually had me reading some of the hieroglyphs off the walls...

Epic. That's the way I'll describe today. We started out by waking up at 5:30am and then crossing over to the west bank for my second visit to the Valley of the Kings. Our guide Toni had picked three tombs, first we went in the tomb of Ramses I, which I had never had the urge to go in before, but didn't object to because it was something new. The crowd to get into the tomb was overwhelming and there was no real feeling down in the burial chamber, because it was s...

We left Aswan at about 9:30am this morning for our drive to Luxor, which would only take us until about lunch time. We got there at 1:30pm and just as the truck pulled in, I got a call from Ramez, asking me if I was in town yet. I told him I had just pulled up and we agreed to meet up at about 2:30pm so we could catch up properly, as he had the whole day off today. It was nice to spend a bit more time with him and we had fun testing each other's knowledge about ...

We boarded our ship "The Nile Ritz" and had to wait an hour or so for our cabin to be ready as we had gotten there so early. I walked up onto the deck and looked out at the magnificent scenery, I could see, desert hills on the opposite side of the river and yelled out to my parents as soon as I realised what I was looking at, The Valley of the Kings. It doesn't matter where you go in Egypt there is always something truly amazing to look at. We finally g...