Terri

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Terri

Just a girl from Aus, on a mission to see the world!



Africa » Egypt » Upper Egypt » Aswan January 4th 2011

A reasonably early start today. After breakfast we were straight on to a Felucca and made our way over to Qubbet El-Hawa, or Nobles' Tombs. Our first tombs!! Mike warned us about the stairs we could look forward to but when I saw them I thought, "Ahh it's not too bad, I can do that easy". Little did I realise that a lot of the steps themselves were quite tall so, for a shorty like me, the top could not come soon enough! Great work out for my legs though and completely worth it once you turned back around and saw the view of Aswan from on high! We made our way to the very end of the lineup so we could work our way back and it was an interesting path - we were essentially ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Upper Egypt » Aswan January 3rd 2011

We were allowed a bit of a sleep in today and it was definitely appreciated! Breakfast was at a very civilised 0900 and new to me was having lettuce, tomato and cucumber with natural yoghurt as a breakfast option! I also tried something new in 'Ful medames' (.."mashed fava beans served with olive oil, chopped parsley, onion, garlic and lemon juice".. thanks Wikipedia) and well... I can't admit to really loving it, but it was definitely edible. After breakfast, and before we were due to meet in the foyer, we were shown to the money exchange place by Amy, who had done this tour once before. It was no more than 50 meters from out hotel and the amount of tourist police planted along the way was quite amusing to me! I didn't really need any ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Upper Egypt » Aswan January 2nd 2011

It all started with the late "drinky" NYE with Dorianne and Jamie. I had intended on a very quiet night but how could you not bring in the New Year with some sort of celebration? We had the house to ourselves; we went in the pool, drank lots of bubbly, made some delicious experimental pizzas from scratch and eventually made cocktails, as the night's plan had intended. I have a small regret about drinking as much as we did, the night before an international flight, but it was a fun night so that definitely outweighed the flicker of a hangover I had the next day! A couple of Panadol solved the problem mostly and I spent the morning cleaning out the rabbit cages and finishing the last bits of packing that needed doing. Stuart and Erin ... read more
View from the Philae Hotel
Felucca on the Nile
Philae Hotel from the river




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