Egypt Time flies. Much time preparing the trip to Egypt, and that's it, come and gone. I can say the trip .... fantastic. It was fantastic. Hard, because he will most little relaxing holiday, but it was worth.
flew to Luxor, where we took to the boat "Ramses of Egypt." Dinner and sleep, because the next day we had to get up early. We visited the Valley of the Kings (enter the tombs of Ramses I, III and IX), the Temple of Hatshepsut, the Colossi of Memnon and the temples of Luxor and Karnak (impressive, the photo is in Karnak). Needless to say, when we returned to the boat were dead. Menudo first day.
The second was much more relaxed.
not pass the Esna lock until the afternoon, so we spent all morning in the boat resting (we need to), and later visit the temple of Edfu, very well maintained (except that the early Christians sought "delete" the body was shown in the reliefs). At night on the boat prepared a feast costume (or party, Chile).
Thursday was also a very busy day. Morning visit the Temple of Kom-Ombo (very interesting) and headed for Aswan. We visited the High Dam, a plant essences, we took a felucca ride and saw the island of Elephantine. Docked near a Nubian village and went to him in camels. We were invited to a tea (which wonder of mint tea, it tastes!), They told us their history and customs and we made a small henna tattoo he wanted. We returned to Aswan and there some went for a carriage ride through the city. We saw the great mosque, the market and stopped to drink tea and smoke a pipe water. That night the ship had a dance Nubia, but we were not any for lots of fun and we left quite early to bed, especially since the next day we had to leave at 3:30 in the morning and headed to Abu Simbel.
So at 2:30 in the morning we got up to be on track at 3:30, all our white pillows on the bus. What awaited us there is more than I could imagine. Not only the fact that this marvel was built between 1284 and 1264 before C, but (like many other temples) was dismantled and rebuilt in its current location between 1964 and 1968 (going to be submerged under Lake Nasser) . It is truly sobrecojedor.
And back to the boat to wait out our flight to Cairo. We were late, so it was get to the hotel (the Conrad, which hotelazo, when we arrived there we raised us) and go to sleep, because the next day we had another long day ...
And on Saturday morning we went to see the pyramids of Giza.
Huge, beautiful, fantastic. The Sphinx however I was expecting a little bigger, I think the image of the pyramids behind always gave me the wrong idea about its size. I liked muchÃsmo Saqqara, mastabas saw there also two very interesting, but only highlight the beautiful Memphis statue of Ramses II. From there to eat and then to the hotel. From the pyramids at the hotel cost us 2 hours, the mad trade of Cairo. So he went to the hotel, get some rest and prepare for dinner. We went to a site that highly recommend "Felfela." He is most famous, most tourists just there, but the fame he deserves. The food was delicious, though the drinks were pricey and had therefore acted show "
The Dervishes of Cairo ." Left us all fascinated with music and dance.
On Sunday morning we went to the Egyptian Museum (museum store more, I hope to repeat the visit more time when building the new museum near the pyramids) and then visit the Alabaster Mosque. From there we went to the Coptic quarter, where we visited the church of S. Sergio, on which is supposed to be the crypt where the Holy Family hid while fleeing from Herod. Also visit the Ben Ezra Synagogue, where Moses was supposedly saved from the Nile After lunch we went shopping at Khan Al-Khalili, a huge bazaar and a real burden! Because there is "Jordan" where there is no need to haggle ...
On Monday we walk around the hotel until the time the bus picked us to take us to the airport. And at night we were in Barcelona, \u200b\u200band our small Egypt holidays were over ... (