Home » Egypt » Egypt travel stories

Egypt travel stories

Day 14. Fri 26th September Abu Simbel and the Nubian Village

We are getting to know the staff on the Doma now, and they are all very friendly and helpful. Osama the barman very kindly presented me with a scotch on the house last night, and it seems to have w...

Day 13. Thu 25th September Edfu and Kom Ombo

So much for being a relaxing week - this morning we are up at six o'clock to visit the temple at Edfu, which is much newer than the others we have seen, having been started by Ptolemy III in ab...

Day 12. Wed 24th September The M. S Doma sets sail

This is the first day of the entire trip that we don't actually have to get up, but Oisìn wants to go and photograph the Luxor Temple in daylight, so we all, except Jo who has more sense, are ...

Day 11. Tue 23rd September Luxor Village.

The six of us get up at eight to take a calesh ride to Luxor Village while the newcomers do the Valley of the Queens and Karnak. It is market day in Luxor, and we drive through a chaos of people bu...

Day 10. Mon 22nd September Balloon ride. The Valley of the Queens.

Today we say goodbye to Chris, Beverley, Jenny, Ian and Isobel. They are only doing the one week "Sinai Insight" module, and are flying off home. We have a "lie in" until six o'clock, when we p...