Day 6

Another early start. This was the start of our Trafalgar Tour stage of our holiday. An early wake up call and early breakfast had us on the bus and to the airport for our flight to Luxor to start our Nile river cruise. It had been a few days since we had been on a plane, so we welcomed the usual feeling about being at an airport and in the air. The flight took about 1 hour and we entered our bus and strait away went to our first of many temples that these ancient Egyptians liked to build. Nowadays they seem to like to build multi story brick / concrete unit complexes, which don’t ever seem to get finished, but that’s another story.

Our first Temple was magnificent, huge etc etc. Luxor is the site of many temples and other Egyptian relics dating back to 3,000BC. These temples were grand in the extreme with most Kings trying to outdo the previous one, you know – “mine’s bigger than yours”.







We finally made it to the boat. The boat reminds me of a Mississippi river boat, 5 Levels but without the big paddle steamer thing at the back.
Ken and Vanessa De Garis caught up with us today following their own pre tour hot air balloon ride. Our balloon ride was booked for the next day an early start 4.45 am. Ouch!!

On another note, Anne had started to show signs of an allergic reaction. The night before she had stated to feel a hot sensation in her face and our first day on the boat her face had swollen as if she had been stung by a bee. Her face was burning up and the fact of being in the hot Egyptian sun everyday wasn’t helping. It took till the last day on the Nile for her face to get back to some normality.