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                    <title>My Last Day </title>
                    <description>Spent my last day going around to a few remaining places in town. The first stop was the Unfinished Obelisk. Since ancient times Aswan has been known for its quarries and most of the stone of all the Egyptian monuments originally came from this area. The Unfinished Obelisk was just one day abandoned because of a crack but it would39ve been the single largest obelisk made by the Egyptians. Th</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Upper-Egypt/Aswan/blog-731627.html</link>
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                    <title>Down to Abu Simbel </title>
                    <description>After the pyramids probably my favorite day in Egypt. Set off with a driver at 11ish for the 3 hour drive South to Abu Simbel. The landscape in this part of the country is nothing but desert  vast endless plains of sand. At one point it was 115 F outside the car and mirages were beginning to appear on the horizon. They really did look like water and you could see how they could easily lead y</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Upper-Egypt/Aswan/blog-731410.html</link>
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                    <title>Around Aswan </title>
                    <description>Convenient being already on Elephantine Island since this is the oldest part of Aswan. So today I basically just walked down the island. But some interesting things happened along the way. Once you leave the Movenpick you immediately hit two Nubian villages which are beautiful enough in their way  mudbrick houses with some farmland attached to them and a bunch of goats sheep and donkeys wan</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Upper-Egypt/Aswan/blog-731173.html</link>
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                    <title>Drive Down to Aswan </title>
                    <description>Same guy a nice older man drove me down to Aswan today which is about 4 hours away. We stopped at two places along the way. First in Edfu 2 hours from Luxor at the absolutely incredible Temple of Horus. This is so far my favorite temple in Egypt. While the other temples I39ve been to are truly openair the Temple of Horus actually has a roof and the play of light and shadow on the column</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Upper-Egypt/Aswan/blog-730976.html</link>
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                    <title>Last Day in Luxor</title>
                    <description>Finally slept in for once and in general had a very relaxing day. My last two places in Luxor were Luxor Temple and the Mummification Museum. The nice thing about both is that they are just down the street from the hotel. Started at Luxor Temple.This is the other great temple in town right after Karnak and while it isn39t as big as Karnak I think it is the more interesting ruin. It39s com</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Upper-Egypt/Luxor/blog-730772.html</link>
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                    <title>The West Bank at Luxor</title>
                    <description>Left bright and early to escape the heat and had a driver arranged through the hotel take me across the Nile to the West Bank. This is the land of the dead and probably the greatest burial ground in Egypt outside of Cairo. During the New Kingdom days nearly 1000 years after the pyramids were built pharoahs typically hid their tombs away in the hills surrounding Luxor or Thebes. All of this w</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Upper-Egypt/Luxor/blog-730507.html</link>
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                    <title>Karnak Temples</title>
                    <description>Set off today after a hearty breakfast for the 20 min. walk up the Nile to the famous Karnak Temples. This is one of the absolute largest religious centers in the entire world. To put it into perspective St. Peter39s in Rome and St. Paul39s in London could easily fit side by side and there39s still be plenty of room to spare.In its heyday during the New Kingdom period of Egypt 150010</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Upper-Egypt/Luxor/blog-730284.html</link>
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                    <title>Travel Day to Luxor </title>
                    <description>Another almost too easy day of travel. Left on a short flight South to Luxor around 1 hour from Cairo at around noon and then at Luxor a driver was waiting and drove me the 15 minutes or so to the hotel the Old Winter Palace. I39m still shocked by this hotel mainly because I wasn39t expecting the sheer opulence of the place.This is an old Victorian gem of a hotel right along the Nile</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Upper-Egypt/Luxor/blog-730120.html</link>
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                    <title>Day Trip to Alexandria</title>
                    <description>It39s an ongoing joke that started last year that whenever I take a day trip I first listen to the Beatles39 Day Tripper. I know the Beatles probably weren39t thinking of travel trips when they wrote this song but that doesn39t matter. What was even better today is that Ahmed knew and loved the song and he had an iPod hookup in his car so imagine this driving out of Cairo to the </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-729864.html</link>
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                    <title>A Day in Cairo </title>
                    <description>Had the pleasant surprise of meeting up with Ahmed while I was finishing my breakfast at the hotel which is a hearty falafel meal with bean paste and bread pitas. We set off around 9ish for our first stop Coptic Cairo. This is down the Nile from where I39m at in Garden City where all of the embassies are and is home to the old Christian churches of Cairo. People don39t often realize it</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-729636.html</link>
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                    <title>The Great Pyramids and Around Cairo</title>
                    <description>Last year the highlight was standing in awe under Michelangelo39s ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. But that was Number 2 on my long list of travel goals. Number 1 I did today the Great Pyramids at Giza By far the best safest and easiest way to get to Giza and around is by arranging a driver for the day. The hotel I39m staying at has a set number of drivers they trust and w</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-729415.html</link>
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                    <title>Flight to Cairo </title>
                    <description>I can39t believe I39m actually in Africa Wow And really today was extremely laid back and low key. I left Iraklio in the morning and landed in Athens at around noon and then waited until 5 to take the hour and a half flight to Cairo. Went very smoothly. And EgyptAir is quite the airline. One of the best I39ve been on with great food very comfortable spacious seats and extremely n</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Egypt/Lower-Egypt/Cairo/blog-729127.html</link>
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                    <title>My Very Last Day in Greece</title>
                    <description>You always reach a point where you39re just done with a country like you39ve wrapped it all up and are ready to move on. Today that best explains how I39ve felt about Greece for a couple of days now. Yes I enjoy the new places and sites but I39m sick of classical architecture and ruined palaces. I need pyramids and the tombs of pharaohs now And if I have to eat another moussaka I m</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/Crete/Heraklion/blog-728888.html</link>
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                    <title>Last Day in SantoriniFerry to Crete</title>
                    <description>Today was a very good day. I set out in the morning for Oia eeyah which is just up the coast from Fira. This town is the complete opposite of Fira. Where Fira is busy and extremely touristy Oia is truly quaint laidback and the type of place where you could spend a week just sitting and admiring the view. I can honestly say that this is probably my favorite town in all of Greece. The views </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/Crete/Heraklion/blog-728653.html</link>
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                    <title>Around Santorini </title>
                    <description>A wonderful day around the island  though brutally hot topping out at 40 C what is that in fahrenheit. Started with a taxi down to one tip of the island Akrotiri. This is home to the famous archeological site. Akrotiri back in its day during the 1600s BC was one of the great cities of the world and had established trading routes all throughout the Meditteranean. It also produced some of t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/Fira/blog-728463.html</link>
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                    <title>Ferry to Santorini</title>
                    <description>To me Mykonos is just okay. It39s extremely beautiful and the town is fun to get lost in but if it honestly wasn39t for nearby Delos I probably would39ve skipped over it and gone maybe to Naxos or Paros instead. Mykonos is just too hung up on its party animal image which is a shame because it has so much more to offer. Same reason why you can39t spend more than 3 or so nights in V</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/Fira/blog-728240.html</link>
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                    <title>Sacred Delos</title>
                    <description>Set off in the morning for the 30 minute ferry to Delos. This is by far the most sacred island in the Cyclades and explains why these islands are called the Cyclades in the first place. Delos is at the very center is the heart of the islands which therefore surround it in a large circle they are placed cyclically around Delos. In relation to mythology this supposedly was the birthplace of Ar</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Mykonos/blog-728026.html</link>
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                    <title>Ferry to Mykonos</title>
                    <description>One of those absolutely great days of travel that makes all of the little problems along the way seem not only worthwhile but essentially meaningless in the big scheme of things. Set off from Piraeus on the 735 ferry to Mykonos. And really I don39t think ferry is the right word. These are basically cruise ships that are huge and have restaurants bars gift shops you name it. So the 5 12 ho</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Mykonos/blog-727760.html</link>
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                    <title>Back Down to Athens</title>
                    <description>Not much to report today. Left Kalambaka on the 10 o39clock bus and traveled the 5 12 hours back down to Athens. Beautiful drive allinall finally making it down to Piraeus where I39m spending the night at about 4ish. Piraeus is the port of Athens and is actually the busiest port in the entire Mediterranean. While it39s a bit sketchy down by the docks once you head inland 5 or so </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/Attica/Piraeus/blog-727473.html</link>
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                    <title>Last Day at Meteora</title>
                    <description>Wow Today marks one month of travel. It39s funny though once you get going you don39t really think about time and travelling becomes second nature. That being said I only have 20 or so days left. I need to make the most of them.I feel like I definitely did that today. I caught a taxi over to the neighboring town of Kalambaka which is larger by far than Kastraki and has the bus and tra</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/Thessaly/Meteora/blog-727254.html</link>
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