Blogs from Hurghada, Red Sea, Egypt, Africa - page 5

After Luxor we arrived 5 hrs later by bus to the red sea coast, in Hurghada. we arrived at night, so we didn't get a chance to peek at the famed waters until morning, when we woke up and took a look on our balcony. wow! if expectations were ever met, this was it! gorgeous crystal clear tourquoise waters were spread out on the horizon. the end of february is still a little early for full fleged beaching, but nonetheless the tourist were there. the entire coastline is bought up by 4/5 star hotels/resteraunts/bars, so there isnt a public beach, unfortunatly. strange...right? so instead we would go to hotels and pay a fee to soak in the nature, or go to a restaurant and drink/eat their mandatory fees away. it definately had the packaged 2 week ... read more

THe last Month and a half have been a whirlwind and I feel like one big sigh of relief now that it is over. As I mentioned, I had a blast with family visiting on and off for four weeks!!!It was a great visit and the only negative thing is that it opened up some homesickness that I really hadn't felt before. During that time I also went through my first report card experience, two Pro-D days at school in preparation for our accredidation by the BC Ministry of Education in January, and three days of parent-teacher interviews. We also have the school play going on, and I am still coaching all the soccer teams!!! WHEW! Christmas break comes in just over a week and then its off to Greece. Report cards were crazy...12 different classes ... read more

Ok, so we are all ready to begin the trip across the desert, we have our water, we have some food, we have stored stuff in the truck and eaten our last ice cream cone. Oh, wait, we need a driver. Ours broke himself jumping off the third floor balcony into the swimming pool. Broke both his legs. Fortunately, this camp is the home base for Oasis' trucks--and another tour going the other way just arrived a couple of days ago. So we get to go on the trip after all, with a new driver!! Picture is Greg with his casts and crutches. Now we have to listen to him whine for two days while we drive from Aswan to Hurgada where he will fly back to England. ... read more

Visited Karnak Temple for a couple of hours in the morning before we were due to leave Luxor. The temple & surrounding area was just such an amazing thing to see. It is quite an awesome structure to have survived this long & I am sure would have been an even more spectacular sight in it´s heyday. It is just such a pity so many ancient relics have been built upon & are now probably lost forever. Caught our local bus mid morning, which thankfully wasn´t actually very local at all. It had all it´s windows, comfy seats, a clean floor & even curtains! It was a six hour drive to Hurgada on the Red Sea & we cabed it to the hotel & rested for an hour or so before dinner. We ate pizza at ... read more

A new chapter to my travelblog!! (Slightly delayed posting as usual) Me and Simone (younger sister) had decided it was time to take a break from our busy studies and booked a lastminute - splurged a little - and that's how we ended up in Egypt 2 weeks later! Being two girls on holiday alone in this male-oriented society was (how shall I put it) interesting, and we certainly got enough attention to give us an ego boost. Especially at the bazaars (markets) there was a lot of hissing and Arabic whispering and they said "Shakira" or "Hello- you are like two beautiful cats!" and "Marry me I will pay 100,000 camels" (a good offer) We felt we should stay reasonably covered up for cultural reasons even though it was HOT (30-35 degrees) not that everyone ... read more