Author: Minion-Chris

Reflecting on Africa – Muscles!

ByMinion-Chris July 18, 2016 0 Comments
Last week, Gimpy gave us her thoughts on our African Adventure. This week Muscles gives us his reflections on this trip! 1. What were your top 3 highlights of the trip? Highlight #1: The pyramids!  Seeing them in person, posing in front of them, touching them, climbing them, entering them, and marvelling at the magnitude of how they were all constructed by hand. Highlight #2: Seeing the beauty...

Reflecting on Africa – Gimpy!

ByMinion-Chris July 9, 2016 1 Comment
Now that we've had a little over a week to to settle back at home, I thought it would be great to give my travelling companions an opportunity to share some of their thoughts on this great adventure we've been on. I sent them a list of  questions for them to talk about and so without further adieu here' Gimpy's take on this amazing trip! Gimpy will be the first so give us her take on this...

Return to Cairo, Travel to London, and an ENGAGEMENT!

ByMinion-Chris June 29, 2016 3 Comments
  I woke up in the sleeper train refreshed about an hour outside of Cairo and I was greeted with the attendant giving me a tray for breakfast. I got changed and enjoyed four different servings of bread (It seems like this is the standard breakfast when it comes to Egypt!). We arrived a little late into Cairo due to another train on our track having some issues and having to switch tracks, so...

Valley of the Kings, Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, Statues of Colossi, Lunch with local Luxor Family, Final Dinner

ByMinion-Chris June 27, 2016 0 Comments
We woke up early again today, we wanted to beat the midday heat again so we set off early to cross the Nile to the west bank of Luxor. We hopped in a water taxi to cross and caught some great views of the Luxor water front early in the morning. To get up a hill and closer to where we would meet our bus, Mudi had arranged for us to try riding donkeys, It wasn’t very different from riding a...

Temple of Kom Ombo, Edfu Temple, Luxor, Karnak Temple

ByMinion-Chris June 27, 2016 0 Comments
I woke up early to the sounds of people around me, I saw most of my felucca mates up and popped up quickly! I was glad that I conked out and slept through the night without interruption, I guess relaxing in the sun can be a tiring! We had a good number of sites to visit today so we needed to get washed up quickly. Though I did take some time to enjoy a morning on the Nile We were dropped off at...

Sailing on a Felucca, Swimming in the Nile

ByMinion-Chris June 27, 2016 0 Comments
We got to sleep in a bit later today (10AM) as we had a pretty “uneventful” day planned. Our itinerary for the day saw us sailing down the Nile in a traditional Egyptian Felucca sail boat and spending the night under the stars on board. The idea of it sounded amazing when we first booked this itinerary. But as we learned very quickly in Egypt, it is insanely hot and I had started to dread...