We met another guide and were taken to Aswan airport for our short flight to Abu Simbel. We boarded our Egypt Air flight, a much smaller plane than the one we had arrived on six days ago, which was almost empty. We flew over the dead and desolate desert and over Lake Nasser, which was absolutely amazing. Giant pyramid like landmasses rose from the accidentally manmade lake and I wondered if these landmasses had always looked like this and whether or not this was ...

The next day was another early start and the first item on the agenda today was the Aswan High Dam. Again we boarded our bus and went off to the dam. The dam was past a military area so no cameras were allowed. I managed to take a few sneaky pictures of the dam, including one of the Egyptian guards who stopped us to ask who we were and what our intensions were. The dam was very impressive but I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed when I saw what it had d...

Another early morning and off to another temple, the temple of Horus at Edfu. This temple is the most intact temple ever found, its enclosure mud brick walls still survive and its pylons are extremely impressive. It is a Greco-Roman temple and was built over a period of 180 years. Ramez showed us around and pointed out some interesting features of Egyptian temples that I had not previously known about. It was interesting to see that as you moved further and furth...

We had another very nice lunch and I had a swim and a sunbake. At this time the boat had started its journey down the Nile. I lay on the sun lounger in the glorious heat watching the Egyptian scenery go by. I then went and had a bit of a lie down, to catch up from the early morning wake up. When I woke up I could hear people yelling and went up onto the deck to see what was happening. As I walked out onto the deck I noticed that we were in the Esna Lock waiting f...

We arrived at the Valley of the Kings and my breath was taken away by the isolation of this place. It was stark, dead and desolate. We got off the bus and of course were immediately attacked by souvenir hawkers, we then boarded a small train into the Valley. Before we could enter we were told that video cameras were not allowed, I managed to get mine in anyway and do a few seconds worth of filming. We were given a ticket that let us into three tombs, the first to...