so we have arrived in Egypt our 15th country in 5 months and the last on our epic adventure booooooooo!!! after spending about 17 hours on the ferry from Wadi Halfa it was quite fun the boat claims to have a capacity of 600 people and thats how many are crammed on at times but looking at it i think its more like a capacity of 300! luckily for us not many people are going ointo Egypt they are all heading out back to Sudan mostly from Libiya so we only had to squeeze in with about a hundred or so passengers we boarded and almost immdiatly got served dinner which i took one lookmat and ran away (taking my orange with me) we camped out on deck in the fresh air all snuggled up in our sleeping bags (except LP in his 2 season who was just a tad cold in the night) around 10pm we sailed past Abu Simbil which was all lit up and looked spectacular unfortunately we didnt manage to get a photo by the time we grabbed the camera it was to late! after that we settled down to sleep...in the middle of the night i woke up chocking on fumes it seems a tiny hole in the wall by my head was some sort of exhaust so after poisining myself for a while i decided to put my head at the other end this worked in that i didn't die of fumes poising but i was no longer sheltered from the wind and so had a bright pink wind burnt face for a few days! any who next morning we woke up and chilled on deck until we arrived by which time there was almost no shade nd the sun was intense we had to wait on board for ages whilst our passports were taken to be checked through immigration eventually we were on our way in a bus to our hotel (the truck goes on a car ferry so we are without it until about Sunday) so anywho in Aswan we checked out the Nubian museum well worth a look especially the section about moving all the tombs and temples to escape the rising waters of lake Nasser (we have seen the temple of Isis in Madrid that was moved from here) we also went to see the unfinished obelisk very cool but not worth the E£30 entrance fee! and we walked through the Fatimid cemetery unlike any cemetry we have ever seen its very cool but there is absolutly no logic or order to where graves are! in the afternoon we checked out the souk and got a things (including a new bag to carry home all our new stuff haha) the rest of the time in Aswan we spent wandering along the Nile and eating frigging cheap and tasty falafal! then we bused it to Luxor yesterday we went to Karnak temple in the morning spending hours just wandering around the site feeling absolutely in awe of it all! after a long lunch in the shade we went to the souk and got some saffron and indigo...the indigo mostly because i cant understand how washing white clothes with blue powder makes them whiter so i have to try it! then at sunset we went to Luxor temple we missed the good light by a matter of minutes but it did look really impressive all lit up in the dark! tomorrow we head for Cairo and then back to London in about a week....my how time flies by!!!!.....
No comments:
Post a Comment