Archive for April, 2006
Friday, April 14th, 2006
Luxor – The Tourist Mecca
Luxor is a huge tourist mecca. The city is quite small and is actually separated in two parts. The old Luxor is where people live and all the backpacker’s hotels are located. The other part of town is kind of lifeless with a bunch of luxury hotels, trendy restaurants and pubs and overpriced souvenirs shops. [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Egypt by david
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
First pictures of Egypt
I uploaded a bunch of pictures of the different sites I visited in the pictures gallery and added links to them in the previous 2 entries. Enjoy and let me know which one(s) you prefer!
3 Comments » - Posted in Cool Stuff,Egypt,Interesting by david
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
Il Etait Un Petit Navire
While the Nile does not flow only through Egypt (It goes through Ethiopia and Sudan), it is difficult to separate Egypt and the Nile because without it, life would be hard, if possible at all, down here. The ancient Egyptians were even more dependant on it than today’s Egypt. The Nile would rise and drown [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Egypt by david
Thursday, April 6th, 2006
Priceless
Taxi ride from the hotel to the bus station and from Abu Simbel town to the temples: 13 EGP Round-trip ticket Aswan – Abu Simbel: 41 EGP Entrance ticket to the Abu Simbel temples: 70 EGP Spend 2 hours completely alone around the great temple of Rasmses II and the temple of Nefertari: PRICELESS Yes, [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in Egypt by david
Monday, April 3rd, 2006
Egyptian Museum
I met with Karim, the friend of Jacques-Alexandre and Raphaele, last night. I called him at 6PM and he just cancelled his plans to meet me at 7PM. He took me around (shisha and fruit juice first and then dinner followed by shisha and tea) and helped me plan a bit my trip. His first [...]
