After the trip to Jordan, I took the bus from Dahab back to Cairo to spend a couple of days before catching my flight to New Delhi, India.  I hadn’t taken a bus in Egypt, so that was another new experience.  Penguin Village arranged a taxi and sent someone along to get the bus tickets […]

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From Luxor, I flew to Dahab on the Sinai peninsula for some beach time, and a side trip to Jordan. The Red Sea is known for diving and snorkeling, and it really is spectacular. I stayed at a place on the beach called Penguin Village. There is a long stretch of hotels […]

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One of the other sites in Luxor is Karnak Temple. If you’ve seen the James Bond movie “The Spy Who Loved Me”, you’ve seen Karnak Temple, since there were scenes for the movie filmed there.

It was used as a temple for over a thousand years.  It’s really impressive to walk around.  I spent a […]

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I have out of control eyebrows and a hairy upper lip, so I go to the salon every few weeks to get my eyebrows and upper lip waxed. Well, it’s been a while and I was due for a visit to the salon. I’m at a beach community in Egypt right now, so […]

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I spent several days in Luxor visiting the ancient monuments there. Luxor is where the capital of Egypt was during the New Kingdom era, over a thousand years after the pyramids were built. By this time, the pharaohs had decided that building a big pyramid over their grave was just putting up a […]

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