Day 7
Luxor
Packed next day and bussed to Luxor, driving across miles of dessert and went by the red sea. Beautiful sight, the water is bright blue and green like Kalamalka Lake, only much brighter colours. Followed it for miles and saw dozens of ships waiting to go through the Suez Canal. They had to wait up to 2 days and it cost them up to $200,000.00 to go through it. Our tour guide showed us miles of empty condos they had built for the workers on the pipelines and said the Arabs wouldn’t leave their families even after they had built places for them
Lots of Bedouin camps with their tents. They live the same as in Israel with their 4 wives with separate tents for each one and children of each camp with their own coloured clothes in case they got lost. They make big money with their camels renting rides at the pyramids. The camels cost about $1,000.00 and live for an approximately 35 years and when they get too old to work, they eat them. Small farms everywhere with donkeys that they use for everything from pack horses to turning water wheels, kids riding them, etc. Luxor
Packed next day and bussed to Luxor, driving across miles of dessert and went by the red sea. Beautiful sight, the water is bright blue and green like Kalamalka Lake, only much brighter colours. Followed it for miles and saw dozens of ships waiting to go through the Suez Canal. They had to wait up to 2 days and it cost them up to $200,000.00 to go through it. Our tour guide showed us miles of empty condos they had built for the workers on the pipelines and said the Arabs wouldn’t leave their families even after they had built places for them
It took us eight hours to get to Luxor, as we would have to wait on some parts of the trip for a convoy to take us through where they felt it wasn’t safe. They are very careful of their tourists, as that is their biggest industry.
Had dinner in hotel and went off to bed early as we have to get up at 3 a.m. the next morning.
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