Cairo, Egypt, Africa Today started out horribly when the train worker knocked on our door at 7:04am. First of all, he didn’t really need to knock on our door at all because I was still wide awake from the night before. The train ride was just as bad as the first one, so neither Ryan or I got a wink of sleep. It was hot, uncomfortable, REALLY bumpy and unbelievably loud. Apparently Egyptian trains just aren’t for us, but at…
Luxor, Egypt, Africa Today started out with another 6am wakeup call on the boat, but this time we had to be packed up and ready to leave the ship. We headed off the boat at 7am to go to the Valley of the Kings. We arrived to see that loads of tourists were already there and it was hot as hell! We made our way up to the first tomb and learned all about the area we were seeing from…
Edfu, Egypt, Africa This morning started with a 6am wake up call to go see the Temple of Edfu. The interesting thing about this temple is that structurally it is still completely intact. All of the other temples have had parts or most of it missing and is left in ruins. This temple was buried by silt from the Nile River for thousands of years and was perfectly preserved until it was excavated. This meant that we were able to…
Aswan, Egypt, Africa Today we had (what we hope to be) the earliest wakeup call of the trip. After going to bed around 12am a nice gentleman from the ship was knocking on our door at the completely uncivilized time of 2:15am! He must have been knocking for a while because I know I heard the knocking a few times before I realized what it was and answered the door. It was not easy getting up or getting Ryan to…
Aswan, Egypt, Africa Today started with our “wake up” call at 7:45am from the train. I hesitate to call it a wake up call because neither one of us actually got any sleep, but regardless, we were now up and getting “breakfast” in bed. Again, I hesitate to call it breakfast because it was a dinner roll, a pastry and an orange juice, but it got us moving anyway. There were no shower facilities on the train, so we all…
Cairo, Egypt, Africa Today started out with our earliest wake up call on the trip so far, 5:45am. We went downstairs and finally got to meet some of the people on our tour, since we’d missed the meeting last night. We signed up for some extra trips along the way, and then set off on the bus for our first stop in Egypt. We pulled up to the Egyptian Museum at around 8:40am and got a brief history lesson from…
Cairo, Egypt, Africa There’s not really a whole lot to write today because all we did is travel. We woke up in Rome, packed up our stuff and headed straight to the airport for noon. We made sure to leave early to get the car back in time. We followed signs for “Car rental returns” and it said that we had to go to Garage B. So we drove through Garage B like a couple of idiots before finally asking…
Rome, Italy, Europe With today being our last full day in Rome, we had to make it count. We woke up early and headed straight for the Coliseum as we hadn’t been over to that side of town yet. We were approached by LOADS of tour operators trying to sell us on a tour of the Coliseum but we brushed them all off because we figured it probably wasn’t worth it. After finding out that the wait to get a…
Rome, Italy, Europe Today was an early rise for us as we had a lot of traveling ahead of us. It was today that made me really thankful that Ryan agreed to drive in Italy! We first drove 2.5 hours down to Pompeii which was the easy part. We spent a few hours walking around the ruins of Pompeii which was pretty impressive. It’s amazing how big this city was, considering it was built in 2nd century BC. Plus, it…
Rome, Italy, Europe Today was the day we were dreading this whole trip: Laundry day! Luckily for us we found a Laundromat just down the road from our hotel, so we bagged all our stuff up and went down there expecting to spend the next few hours waiting and folding. We showed up and fortunately there was a guy working there who said that it would be the same price to leave the clothes with him and just come back…