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...

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...

Today we headed for the great Pyramids of Giza which were not very far from the hotel at all. When we drove up to them, being in the back seat of the 4 wheel drive I could not actually see them until I got out of the car. When I did I was in shock. I jumped out and we had parked right in front of the great Pyramid of Khufu. I thought we may have had a little bit of a walk but, no we were only about twenty five meters away! I charged off in the direction of the p...

I finally arrived in Egypt today after a very long flight and 7 years of waiting. After getting settled we looked into going out to the Grand Bazaar "Khan el Khalili" and managed to hire a private driver for 180 Egyptian Pounds. We changed some money, that was fun there are four Egyptian Pounds to the Australian Dollar and the money is very interesting, but very old and dirty. We got no coins only notes and it kind of reminded me of monopoly money, very...