Transport central, Luxor to Khartoum and back to Cairo using every transport imaginable and living life like a local, glad I'm a Canadian.

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May 17th 2011

Published: June 1st 2011

Luxor is an amazing city. Luxor is a hot city and Luxor is a tourist trap. These things being considered I loved the city for its architecture but hated it for its cutthroat hassling. On my last day to Luxor I went to what is considered by many to be the nicest temple in all of Luxor and some would say also in all of Egypt. It was fantastic, you felt as though you were walking through a city b... Read Full Entry

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Statues of Ramses II

More elaborate statues of Ramses at Karnak

Abu Simbel

A view of Abu Simbel in its entirety

Two temples of Abu Simbel

this is a shot from far aback showing both temples at abu simbel beside one another, both were impressive.

Selling sheesha pipes

A fairly typical stall selling sheesha pipes in Aswan, only these ones were especially nice with Egyptian designs engraved around them.

Lineup of people getting on the ferry

View from on the ferry of others trying to get on ending up in about an 8 hour delay....joy

Another Sunrise Pic

Another ferry sunrise pic

Sunrise

Sunrise aboard the ferry

On top the boiler room

Myself standing atop the boiler room, the highest spot on the ferry to stand...and oh so hot.

Night market in Aswan

Life really begins to pick up at night, when the sun sets and the deadly heat calms down.

Empty houses

Many of these people must have emptied their houses and taken the contents with them aboard this ferry.

Toilet arrangements

Well nobody said it was gonna be pretty.

Typical view from Wadi Halfa to Karima

Basically there was no view...just desert and gold mines in the deserts of northern Sudan.

More of the pyramids of Meroe

Again these pyramids are different, they are skinny and on a much bigger slant than those at giza, also much smaller but still amazing pieces of ancient architecture.

Remains of Roman Ruins

It seems the Romans enjoyed these pyramids as well, seeing as there were remains of roman architecture in the near sorrounding area.

Climbing the pyramid

I like to think of myself as a monkey and climb anything possible, Giza was dissapointing in this aspect, Begrawiya was not :) Self timer for photo taken.

Typical police checkpoint

Sudan has police checks everywhere and if you don't have your visa and visitor permit in order you will have trouble.

Khartoums Amazing architecture

Khartoum has maybe 2 or 3 interesting highrises, this was one fo them.

Loading the truck

They really know how to load up their trucks here, no nook or cranny is left exposed.

Me and Alrasheed

In a park somewhere in Khartoum

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