Magical Egypt

Arrived in Luxor 36 hours ago. People on the plane ride over here were amazing. I had sinus issues from the week long cold I've had and a few people banded together to give me sinus medication and chewing gum. We were escorted to our hotel by travel talk, out tour company, and met our tour group who had all started their tour in Cairo two days before. We didn't realise we were joining a group that had already started but it didn't matter as we arrived on boxing day and had wanted to spend Christmas with Brett's brother, Sean in England. We got the boring intro and payment stuff over and done with and met a couple of our fellow tour travellers in a local 'Irish' pub. We got a shish kebab each and headed off to bed for some sleep after our 3am start!

We awoke and got onto our mini bus which drove us to Amenhotep III statues. It was pretty amazing to see as they were soo tall and so old! Next up we were off to the Valley of the Kings which I absolutely loved. I paid extra to go and see King Tutankhamen's tomb and boy was it worth it! It was the first time I had ever seen an unwrapped mummy! His head and feet were not covered by cloth and the man in the tomb gave us a lot of information (for a fee of course) and gave us his torch to shine on the body. Tut's body was in a glass, thermoregulated coffin and on the other side was his sarcophagus which he was buried in for thousands of years. Although it was the smallest tomb it was really awesome and by far the highlight of my day. The tombs were pretty awesome with hieroglyphics and paintings on the walls that were beautifully preserved through time buried beneath the earth.

We continued on for Queen Hatshepsut's temple where we saw more Egyptian statues and wall art. There was a tour of Egyptian school boys who took photos of us, the girls, and constantly stared at our boobs. 'So beautiful shakira, shakira' was a common phrase heard from school boys to grown men alike. We then made our way to Aswan on a minibus and arrived on our cruise boat on the Nile river. The place was nice and after a mix up of rooms we got settled in and chatted to some newly made friends. Dinner was served from 8-9pm which was late and we had to be up at 3am this morning so we headed to bed straight after! I am currently sitting on a bus taking us to Abu Simbel which I am quite excited about going to see!