We had a mammoth day of travel to get to Dahab.  We left our hotel in Aswan at 2pm and took a ferry, then a taxi to the train station.  We caught a 3pm train, first class, to Luxor, and…

Hubs and I caught a 10.30am flight from Aswan to Abu Simbel.  From the airport, a free bus shuttled us to the site of this amazing temple.  Ramesses II had the temple carved into the cliffs of the Nile Valley…

Mahmud, the assistant manager of the cruise, gave us a tour of the ship as we were approaching Aswan.  He had taken a shine to us and made sure we were always looked after. He also lived in Italy for…

I was up at 4.40am to do a balloon ride over Luxor. My first balloon ride ever!  None of the others wanted to come so I did it alone with a bunch of other people. It was awesome – we…

After the craziness of Cairo,we were all bracing ourselves for an even crazier time in Luxor.  Hubs said about a hundred times that Luxor was bad for touts in your face trying to sell things.  And it was hotter than…