Egypt! - Part 2
We docked in Luxor, which is a gorgeous city with great market places. Here we went into the desert on donkeys to see Valley of the Kings, Queens & Workers. That was a lot of fun, there were no proper saddles and the donkeys liked to canter and trot.The temples in Luxor were huge, the biggest and oldest ones of the lot.
After Luxor we drove across the desert again to Hurghada, we stayed the night there and the next day took a boat to Sharm el Sheik. From there we drove through the Sinai desert this time until we reached Dahaab.
Dahaab was my favourite city in Egypt. It's a new development, it was a small beach town full of fantastic restaurants and shopping. We had 5 days in Dahaab and we were pretty much left to our own devices - this was the relaxation part of the tour.
Except for the night we were supposed to climb Mount Sinai. I opted out of that wee adventure. To do it they left the hotel at 11pm, drove for three hours until the reached the base of the mountain. Then it took them about two - three hours to walk up the paths and the final stretch was a half hour walk up a flight of stairs that was originally built to punish people. Then they had to wait on top of the mountain in freezing temperatures below zero for the sunrise. The sunrise takes approximately 30 seconds, and you're up there with hundreds of other tourists. Then you face the climb back down the mountain, and the three hour drive back to Dahaab. All for a 30 second sunrise. I was happy with the sunrises we saw on the Nile - i didn't need to kill myself climbing a mountain to see another one.
Instead i went diving. I'll tell you about that in the next post.
Unfortunately blogger is not letting me upload any pictures, but here is the link to where i keep all my travelling pics if you want to take a look: http://michelleinlondon.spaces.live.com/
posted by ... @ 3:11 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home