Egypt update

Day 6   Luxor

Today we got up (another early start needless to say) at about 6am to go to the Valley of the Kings. We had another Egyptologist with us as we always do when we get to a new city. He took us to a few funerary temples on the west bank of the Nile before heading into the Valley of the Kings. Unfortunately, Egypt and it's crazy restrictedness and selling copyrights to photos meant that we couldn't take any photos in the Valley. It was really amazing though, unlike anything else. It's unreal. We had really good explanations of everything and then we were allowed to go into some of the tombs. Our guide chose the ones for us; they were 3 of the Rameses'... They were actually amazing. Although they were well over 60c inside so the 10 minutes in each were quite uncomfortable but so worth it. We then went to the temple of Queen Hatsheput which was really amazing because it has such a good story behind it and it's the only temple built on multiple levels. Basically, she once ruled Egypt as the only woman but she dressed as a man etc. She was a pretty cool person. We then went to Karnak Temple which again was really good. We then checked out of the boat and got on the bus to Hurghada. In Hurghada we dropped of 21 people from the group who were doing a different tour but our itineraries had been the same until this point. We browsed the shops and had something to eat. We got back on the bus at midnight and drove 8 hours back to Cairo. BYE.x