http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Yazmin/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Yazmin en-us Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:19:50 +0000 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:19:50 +0000 OK... its been a long 24 days.We stayed in Hampi for a week. The second day we were there the rain let up and I didn't throw up. We took the coracle over the sacred ford... translation we took a the small falling apart ferry across the river... We found a cheap place and decided to move the next day. On the way back Rue got in a little bit of a disagreement with the boy that collected the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Madurai/blog-352955.html OK... so we arrived in Mumbai on Monday November 3 at dawn. Since this is our third international airport arrival on this trip we are already hardened to the taxi and hotel offers and were very put off by the man that overcharged us for using the public phone and the man that swore to us that we would never find a room in Mumbai for under 2500 rupees... we did find one for 500 rupees. Sidenot http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Goa/Arambol/blog-345335.html Well first I must apologize that it has been quite some time since I have written... I will try to summarize as much as possible all the things that have happened since my last entry...In Luxorwe spontaneously rented a motorbike to get to the other side of the Nile and visit the Valley of the Kings. We did not intend to rent a bike but when we left the hotel that morning there was a foriegner ou http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Goa/Arambol/blog-343592.html Adrift on the Nile is the novel I am reading now so appropriate no The author is the Egyptian Nobel prize winner Naguib Mafhouz. It takes place in the late 60's and centers around a group of friends mid forties all very successful... that gather every evening on a houseboat on the Nile to smoke kif from the water pipe and chat about nothing really except the matters of seriousness versus http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Upper-Egypt/Luxor/blog-337740.html We have been in Egypt for an entire week now. But first back to Maroc for a moment. Tangiers gets a bad rap... everyone and the guidebook told us to expect a seedy place with not much to offer except the ferries to Spain. But it was very nice. The beach the scene the medina. We were there for the last day of Ramadan and splurged and went to a bar for one very strong Vodka tonic and a beer f http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-333216.html Yes it has been quite some time.Well we enjoyed our long stay in Essaouira and headed through Marrakesh once again to get to the Cascades de Ouzoud. It took us two buses a grand taxi and a long downhill hike to get to the camping place.In OUzoud we slept in a Berber tent had a beautiful lunch overlooking the falls and a cliff with at least 3 troops of Barbary Apes which are actually monke http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Tangier-T-touan/Chefchaouen/blog-327958.html When we first decided to come to Morocco I was doing very brief research online and read a short paragraph about Essaouira and was instantly enticed. Now we are here and we are in love.We arrived Tuesday morning and immediately found a penthouse flat near the bus station and outside of the medina. We negotiated a good rate and we think we got quite a deal for a full apartment with a kitchen and http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Marrakech-Tensift-El-Haouz/Essaouira/blog-322817.html Ok very quickly an update.We arrived in Agadir yesterday. Since my last entry we left Marrakesh and traveled by bus through the Atlas mountains to Ouarzazate everybody try to pronounce that 5 times slowly. This is the town where they have filmed Gladiator Lawrence of Arabia Alexander the Great and Kingdom of Heaven. Very interesting place. We actually quite a efw characters here one old l http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Souss-Massa-Dra-/Agadir/blog-321039.html Ok here it is folks so many of you requested that I do this while abroad so I am trying this blogging thing out then you guys can read at your leisure and not be bombarded with constant update emails from me while you all work frantically to forget me.first forgive my spelling and typos as I am trying to get used to the frencharabic keyboards.Speaking of french and arabic LaRue and I speak ne http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/blog-318213.html