As part of our Christmas break, Kaddee, her mother and I flew to Luxor and boarded a Nile cruise boat for a 4 night, 5 day fun filled adventure.
The cruise includes sight seeing at some temples as well on board entertainment Which we mostly slept through since we were all tired from sightseeing and coming down with colds.
I can’t say I was sorry to miss the “galabaya party” or the “nubian drumming”. The belly dancer might have been interesting in a bad-train-wreck sort of way. But alas.
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I started to type up a “we went here and did this” sort of post, but that seems like too much work. So instead, some highlights and lowlights.
We basically sat on the boat, watched the sunset
We went to Medinat Habu
which is spectacular.
It is also where Kaddee got to take a motorcycle ride.
We went to the Valley of the Queens which was only mildy interesting. There are only 3 tombs open and the most famous one, Queen Nefetari’s tomb, is closed to regular tourists due to damage caused by humidity and dust.
We skipped the Valley of the Kings tour (we did that last year) and decided to stay on the boat to ride through the locks at Esna.
That was neat in a we-are-such-geeks way. I have never been through locks before. We have spent many a sunny Sunday afternoon at the Ballard locks in Seattle, watching the boats pass, but this was my first time through a set.
Next time:
- Edfu and the Temple of Horus
- More cruising and drinking on the sundeck.
One reply on “Luxor and the cruise”
Heh.
This summer, C and I went through the Ballard locks for the first time evar in our own new 30-year-old sailboat. Took days to get the tension out of my shoulders. We had to pass through the big lock because we locked through with a probably 100-foot mega-yacht (easily bigger than the Argosy cruise boats). Truly frightening.
We went through the locks again going back out to saltwater in October…much less stressful. Now the boat’s in Edmonds, far away and safe from further locking action.