The Great Egyptian Adventure

Its been a while...I know. Please keep your expectations low as I am guaranteed to be deficient in my updates. I went to Egypt in May, it was amazing! Since it would take too much effort to recap the whole incredible two weeks I will post some pictures and fill in with some captions.

We spent a few days in Cairo, visiting the Pyramids and the Sphinx. We rode camels, sometimes voluntarily, other times forcefully being lifted onto the camel and then being expected to pay for our unwilling ride upon descending the camel. We learned our lessons quickly, Egyptian men have no real respect for women, believing we seek the obnoxious attention they harass you with. I am also pretty sure that Egyptians in general do not understand the meaning of the word NO.







We took a trip up to Memphis where the believe they have only discovered about 10% of the treasures and ruins buried there.


This one of Elba is a favorite!

We flew to Luxor and proceeded through Egypt by way of the Nile on a river cruise. We stopped at many sites as we headed south...






Our southern most stop was in Aswan, we were able to see the dam there as well as Philae Temple. We went sailing on the Nile and we did lots of shopping.






From Aswan we took a short flight to the two temples of Abu Simbel built by Ramesses II, one for himself and one for his favorite wife Nerertari.




It was HOT!

We cruised back up the Nile, again stopping at a few temples on our way back to Luxor where we spent a few days going to the Valley of Kings, The Valley of Queens, the Temple of Hatshepsut...







...and finally Karnak Temple.





When we left Luxor we headed to the Red Sea for our last few days. We spent some time on the beach, took a tour of the beautiful reefs on a glass bottom boat and even had an amazing Turkish Bath at the resort we were staying at.

It was an incredible trip, I feel very lucky to be able to see so much of the world and its history. If you are interested in seeing all 400+ pictures, you can click the link to the right for my PICASA and go to the EGYPT folder...