Egypt

5-Sep After a great week with the kids, grand kids, family and friends it is now time to start the Egypt and Jordan tour. Today everyone on the tour will arrive at the hotel, as I got here a day earlier (last night at 23:00) I had the opportunity to Continue Reading

6-Sep First stop today with the complete tour group is back to the Giza Pyramids, perfect opportunity for me to shoot a few more pictures as you can never have enough 😊 We are in total with 36 people, and it looks like we will be having a lot of Continue Reading

7-Sep Today was an early start and will be a long day. First visit was the one of the oldest churches in Egypt, the Hanging Church which dates to the third century. It belongs to the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, it’s called the Hanging Church because it’s built on Continue Reading

8-Sep We arrived in Luxor around 10 PM and by the time we got to the hotel and checked in it was around midnight. But, not to worry, we only had to start today at 8 o’clock. We started with a visit to Karnak Temple. The Karnak Temple or rather Continue Reading

9-Sep This morning I had to get up early for the hot air balloon ride over Luxor. We had a group of 28 people doing this adventure. When we arrived at the spot where the balloons were launched we were even more excited as there must have been at least Continue Reading

10-Sep Today we will first visited Edfu temple which is one of the most striking and complete of ancient Egyptian temples and is dedicated to the worship of the god Horus. Situated on the western bank of the Nile, its construction began during the reign of Ptolemy III (246–221 BC) Continue Reading

11-Sep As promised in my previous blog, here are a few images of the dancers that entertained us last night. The male dance, called a Tanoura dancer (or whirling dervishes was very good, the belly dancer not so much 😊 Anyway, back to today, another early rise, just so we Continue Reading

12-Sep Today we will be spending a lot of time in the bus, it is quite a way to visit Abu Simbel, but it was worth the ride. The Great Temple of Abu Simbel, in Nubia near Egypt’s southern border, is amongst the most awe-inspiring monuments of Egypt. It was Continue Reading

13-Sep We have one more day in Cairo and most of our tour members will visit the new Grand Egyptian Museum. Back in January of 2002, the Egyptian government announced a worldwide competition for the design of a new museum complex to house, display, and preserve some of the world’s Continue Reading

14-Sep This will be a short post 😊, we are now settled for two days (3 nights) in this resort right next to the Red Sea. We will do a desert safari tomorrow so I will post that experience later and add some pictures here from the resort as well. Continue Reading