Our last day of Egypt! It has been a whirlwind of temples, monuments, burial chambers, the wonders of the Red Sea and the challenge of Mt Sinai. History has been all round us at every turn. It was sad to part company with our Busabout travelling companions. Some went on to do a short tour of Jordan, but most were heading off either onto their next travels or home. We took a taxi for the one and a half hour trip to Sharm El-Sheikh, the closest airport. Sharm El...

 After a morning ferry ride of 3 hours and then a 2 hour bus ride we arrived at the Tropitel Resort at Dahab in the Sinai Peninsular. This was to be our home for the last 3 nights of our Eqypt trip. The next morning we signed up for a camel and snorkel tour and it turned out to be a fabulous experience. First we were taken into town to get fitted with our snorkel gear and then taken to a spot on the beach where camels were waiting. We had a leisurely lurch alon...

We arrived at the hotel at Hurghada in the dark and there seemed to be a bit of a reservation problem as we were relegated out the back to an old holiday apartment block separate from the hotel. Our room had no power, no hot water and was quite dirty - maintenance had the power solved OK, but not the hot water - not too worry, we would make do.There is a mantra we use in times like this "it's only one night". It's got us through all sorts of accommodatio...

 Following our two nights on the Felucca we visited two more amazing sites, Kom Ombo and Edfu, after which we checked into a hotel and then it was right back into the whole temple sight seeing thing, with Luxor and Karnak temples.Karnak is much more than just a temple - it is a mind-boggling spectacular complex of buildings, obelisks, sanctuaries and Pylons. It has been added to, used and decorated by different Pharaoh's and cultures and covers a massive ar...

 After a long, long train journey of 18 hours, which threw out our schedule of sight seeing, we finally arrived at our hotel for the night and following very quick showers we all met downstairs to go off to a restaurant for a combined lunch and dinner. It was a beautiful meal of Egyptian food on a floating restaurant on the Nile. The long hours on the train were quickly forgotten - well until Hany our guide advised that those who had taken up the option to go t...