Blogs from Luxor, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa - page 31

Hi There and salam aleku, After having a first 'decent diner' I went with Achmed Safik and guests to walk around in the East Bank, drink some beer and be in a really puffy hotel....it got really late but still I took the ferry back to my little paradise to sleep between the donkeys and the camels and wake up in the fields....wasn't too awake though.....OEPS. Nevertheless, I biked to the Karnak temple and just had a GREAT time...it is so overwhelming...so huge...so...impossible almost! A lot of diversed un-centered energy. I was sort of just walking around, not trying to figure out who built what and when and magically I was guided to some wonderful places..Sekhmet room and statue and the sacred lake were places I felt a very powerful and nice energy in particular. Funny, ... read more

After a good swim in the nile and a healthy breakfast I sat down at the nile and just felt so GREAT! This place I am staying is such a special place for me....haven't seen any temple yet, but the energies are just there. I wrote a beautiful Nile song: Here I look at you, glinstering a thousand moments in the Now. Here I sit with you as I sat with you long before. Here I listen to you singing your sacred song and I need no ever more but Love you. Here I burry a little stone, healing the western greed for money, the eastern minaret tones of hardship honey. Here my heart is One with All. My heart liberated from exile. Here my heart is One with All and with you, my sweetest Nile ... read more

Oemf, where to start? Since my last blog from Aswan so much has happened! I am still alive and have all my belongings.....haha. Well, I went on a felucca trip with Captain Salahm (later I found out his is not really the captain.....), 2 australians and 2 Koreans (They left after 1 night). It was so spectacular to sail in silence on the Nile...just wonderful and it doesn't take much fantasy to really feel like an ancient Egyptian... I swam in the Nile and all thought I was crazy, but it was great after a night of shivering and sleeping in my clothes......brrrrr...We had great meals, great conversations and a lot of fun! After 2 nights I went (by car) with Salahm to a small temple of Horemheb in Gebel El Silsila. I put a gemstone ... read more

Came off the felucca fairly early and walked past Kom Ombo Temple on way to meet our transport. Had to wait a while as we had to join up with the convoy from Aswan to Luxor. Visited Edfu Temple, which is renowned as the battle site between the two Egyptian Gods, Horus (falcon) and Seth (his uncle). Again, very spectacular, however I wish we´d had a guide provided. There´s certainly a huge difference between exploring on your own and being taken in a group. You learn so much more about a place with a guide and although alot of information may not be retained, it certainly gives you a better appreciation and makes the experience more memorable. Ate a late lunch at the hotel, followed by a couple hours punching away on the computer. We´d arranged ... read more

Well quite a bit has happened since the last entry... we got on a train to alexandria at around 12pm and it took about 3 hours. Alexandria and Cairo were much different than I was expecting. I expected cairo to be a more world class city with skyscrapers and just more modern over all and I expected Alexandria to be a bit nicer as well since apparently a lot of european tourists visit alexandria but both places were a bit run down. The hotel in Alexandria was really nice, no doubt the nicest hotel in th city and we got a really good dinner at a restaurant called Tikka Grill which is right on the corniche (boardwalk)... After that we headed towards Fort Qait-Bay and met a group of 3 Egyptian men who just kinda came ... read more