It was everything I wanted it to be and more. It was unreal to go down the nile and see a bank of palm trees with donkeys and small houses and naked kids running around jumping into the nile and then the desert mountains behind it all. Our boat had a small pool that I spent too much time at getting burnt. The tops of my feet are so tan its ridiculous.
During our 4 night cruise we would go on all day excursions to incredible places. The valley of the kings, luxor temple, edfu temple,al-deir temple, kom ombo temple, and karnak temple. A lot of the people that I was traveling with were studying archeology; they were getting sand and rocks from every place. It was a world wind tour of so many temples and things that I'm overwhelmed. Amazing hieroglyphics and carvings in every temple but all very different so I never felt like I was seeing the same thing a million of times. Its so crazy to think that this stuff is over 4000 years old... Damn! Since its all stone everyone is touching everything and climbing over these ancient ruins- its incredible.
There was one day that was ridiculous hot, like 100 degrees hot... It was painful and there was no escaping the heat we all just sweated all. day. long.
Everyone on the boat was getting sick with weird stomach problems. I kept taking theses weird pills my tour director was giving me. My roommate was out for an entire day- its brutal. The water is completely non drinkable to the point where I'm not brushing my teeth with it. So I'm not quite sure what we're digesting. The locals drink the water like its nothing. I would love to know what the locals think of all the tourists with our big bottles of water and our over sized suitcases that fit more things than they own. The tourist are probably the ones contributing the most to the huge trash problem in Cairo.
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