Made it to Cape Town

I finally made it to Cape Town after 14 hours in the air and a layover in Doha (I had to check a map too). Nonetheless, I added a few pictures from Egypt to show you how beautiful it is.

Puff the Magic Dragon Lives by the Nile

Why was our carriage driver in Edfu high? I mean puffing the magic dragon, enjoying the good grass, getting lifted... you get my point.

One of our stops on the cruise up the Nile from Aswan was in Efdu. One of the couples on our tour group are corporate lawyers from Australia Nick and Simone. Between the four of us sarcasm was was at an all time high. I LOVED it. We were like the kids in the back of the classroom who needed to be separated for making too many jokes.

When we first got to Edfu and got off the boat, we started looking for a small van to take us to the Temple. That was not the case, we were directed to take the smelly touristy carriage that rides around carrying its own poop. Just imagine sitting behind a smelly horse, in the hot desert sun, and with THAT smell hitting you in you in your face. So the four of us crowded into this carriage made for two and we were off. Our driver thought he was Ben Hur because decided to race the other carriages through the streets (No one else was racing him). That should have been our first clue. Then when we got to the temple he crashed it into the side walk. While we were going there he kept on looking back at me, trying to grab my money, asking if we wanted to take a picture with it, and all the while doing a pitiful job holding the reins.

After the visit, the most rationally thinking individuals decided to get back on that carriage to go back to the boat. Three of the four of us smelt the aroma and Nick saw it (he was sitting in the front with him). As we rode away he drank the rest of Nick's soda and threw the can on the temple grounds... so much for keeping the place sacred. We're still alive and that's what counts.

Our last stop on the cruise was in Luxor. To me it was the best city in Egypt because was very peaceful and clean. Luxor was also the hottest of our five stops in Egypt. The temperature was somewhere between heat stroke and please kill me. At night is when the city really lights up.

Yesterday we took our last train ride up to Alexandria. Alex, as they call it there, reminds me of Barcelona. Also, the history is the perfect blend between Egyptian, Roman, and Greek mythology and culture. That part of the trip was very timely given what I saw in Rome and the rest of Egypt. I will be going back to Egypt.

Next stop South Africa.

The Valley of the Kings

Tour guide Mary for the upper part of Egypt.