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Today was our last day seeing sites. Tomorrow (at 2am) we leave for the airport and begin the long journey home. I’m a little embarrassed say “long” when we just…

Today was mostly a travel day by bus from Petra to Amman. We’re nearing the end of our journey, but along the way we saw two sites important to the…

Today we visited Petra – one of the 7 Wonders of the World, and one of the most spectacular days on our journey. Yesterday was a travel day so I…

12 of our group left in the middle of the night for home. 31 of us are relaxing on a day off at the beautiful resort in Sharm El Sheikh…

I skipped blogging yesterday because it was a travel day. We got up at 4am to fly from Aswan to Cairo and then take a “5 hour” bus ride that…

Our Nile River time has come to a close. Today we visited the Philae Temple in Aswan (the furthest south in Egypt we are visiting. The Philae temple was submerged…

Today was very relaxing. We skipped the Temple of Horus at Edfu because we would have had to get up at 6am and join thousands of people off the dozens…

Half of our group (those who need to be institutionalized) got up at 4am to go on a hot air balloon ride over/near the Valley of the Kings at Luxor…

We started our day early today. We were up by 5 and went to the Cairo airport to depart for Luxor. It wasn’t a long flight, but between airport chaos…

Today we experienced our second and last day in Cairo. We began by visiting two Coptic Orthodox Churches. The first Church (the Hanging Church) is the oldest church in Egypt…

Our first day of site seeing. After a two day journey to get here (arriving with our luggage in our rooms about 3am last night), we started off with a…