Last day - what a week!!!! Today we have a really great final day. Starting with playing a round of golf at Katameya heights Golf Resort (http://www.katameyaheights.com/) What a GREAT round of golf - while Mom and Sis where at the pool. And then the final highlight...
Early start today at 4am to leave for Abu Simbel. But worth the hassle! Hottest day so far - 44° or more! Stopped at a Fata morgana at the way back. Afternoon: Visitin the nubian village. Dad petting some crocodiles and a nice sunset while sailing by the Old Cataract...
We started with the temple of Philae - in the „lake“. Amazing story that they „moved“ the temple when they build the dam! Then up to the high dam - impressive construction. Thinking about the dams in Austria/Tirol this is a different sports 🙂 My dad then bought ear...
Breakfast (Doris tried herself 🙂 ) - and then to Temple of Horus at Edfu - by carriage! nice… sooo many horses… 🙂 We had someone else in our group - but I don’t go into too much details - she was a bit tiring from time to time 🙂 Emad is great again - even though we...
Still in luxor, today we visited the Temple of Hatshepsut and the valley of the kings. It was hot. It was faszinating. We had Emad as our guide (owner of the tour company: https://www.reiseninaegypten.com/) I can only speak of him in the highest respect - you won’t...
We started in the morning again, Mohamed picked us up and checked out at Longchamps. On the way to the airport for our flight to Luxor we went to Mokattam to also see the „other side“ where tourists normally do not go (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabbaleen). We...
Getting up early for a full day of Cairo sightseeing!!! After having a brief chat with Hebba, Mohamed picked us up in the morning and we drove to Gizeh for the pyramids. NO TRAFFIC - due to the 6th of October is a big holiday in Egypt. I have been to Cairo before -...
So those entries are for the one week Egypt travel for my parents 50th wedding anniversary - which was exactly 50 years to this day. My sister and I were joining our parents. First time for them on a different continent 🙂 And there we go! Leaving Munich at...