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After that we go to the next reatsaurant for another cup of coffee. We also buy some souvenirs, large papyrusses with beautiful paintings. We start haggling in Egyptian pounds, then we convert the amount into Euro's, round it off ...

Egypt, travelogue January 2004 [2]

Elisabeth & Teije
2004-03-06 13:23:11

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Sunday 11 January, mummification and Luxormuseum A brightly shining sun wakes us and today we are early for breakfast. After the exhausting day, yesterday, we will take it easy today. Every holiday we try to seek a balance between doing things, visiting museums and monuments, walking through the streets and relaxing It is quite clear to me that we easily can spend a whole week, just visiting ancient temples and tombs, but it is also a holiday and we have worked hard enough. What we don't see this time will have to wait for our next visit. And we have already given up hope that we are ever able to see everything in this world.

And therefore we start, like most other days, on the sunny terrace of the Metropolitan restaurant, along the Nile. We are not tempted by the many offers for a taxi, coach or felouka but enjoy our coffee. Still, it is fun to bargain, even for a newspaper one can get the price down. For a Dutch newspaper they start asking 6 Euro, but soon the price is down to € 2.
Quietly we walk along the Nile to the mummification museum on the boulevard opposite of the Luxortemple. This small exposition clearly shows the objects of mummification and the rituals that were used. There is not an overabundance of objects but it gives a coherent and orderly picture of the mummification process.

After that we go to the next reatsaurant for another cup of coffee. We also buy some souvenirs, large papyrusses with beautiful paintings. We start haggling in Egyptian pounds, then we convert the amount into Euro's, round it off and subsequently pay in dollars at which point the price goes down again. Quite convenient that the Euro is so expensive at this moment.
There are lots of feloukas (sailing boats) and many luxurious cruise ships sail away, probably to Aswan. Above the westbank we see one of the airballoons ascending. For € 80 one can make a trip of about one hour. Watching at the Nile is like watching the ...