Luxor
The streets of Luxor. I remember a butchers shop where the carcasse was just hung up outside the door and they butchered it an sold it almost instantaneously to the gathered customers. Bit grim! Setting off on the donkey trek to the Valley of the Kings. Sadly Sue could not do this due to her […]
Egypt:Aswan to Luxor
This is the inside of the infrastructure to house the temple in its new location. “Abu Simbel – Dave’s day as ‘guide’. (Whole thing raised 200ft to avoide erosion by Nile waters)” “The Abu Simbel temples were relocated in 1968 to higher ground to prevent them from being submerged by the rising waters of Lake […]
Egypt – Cairo to Aswan
This was our first ever Explore trip in August, 1989! It was very successful for various reasons as you will soon see. This will be quite a long post as I will cover the whole trip in one go ( I think). The photo album we made is quite descriptive so I will use that […]