http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Talene/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Talene en-us Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:59:08 +0000 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:59:08 +0000 I am writing from Basma Hotel in Aswan which means that I survived the 14hr train ride. Once we arrived we were given a chance to freshen up before we left to make the most of the day.Most of us still felt like zombies but the felucca ride along the Nile washed away the sore eyes from the train. Feluccas are wind powered sail boats and they're dotted all along the Nile. They're slow but they're http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Upper-Egypt/Aswan/blog-303883.html We met with our tour group last night. There are two others doing our tour a couple from Singapore. There are three others women doing 'Essential Egypt' which is the same as our tour without the last few days on the Sinai Peninsula. Our tour guideEgypologist's name is Victor he gave us a brief rundown of our tour and all of the additional costsoptional activities and he gave the expected http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-303817.html Part 1 of 2Leon Jodie and I arrived at Cairo airport at around 11pm tonight yeaahhhh. Despite 19 hours of flying with a 5 hour stop over at Changi Singapore airport I didn't even get a wink of sleep. I guess I was still buzzing because the trip was actually happening while my head was still stuck in replay mode from the previous nights' farewellantics.After exiting the plane we followed http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-297429.html