dear luxor- i miss you.

 We stopped off at were the Ptolemaic temples which is what Luther has been studying for over 5 years.  To put it in simple terms, its when the Egyptians and the Greeks met and began to merge their cultures together. (There are A LOT of similarites between Greek gods and Egyptian gods and the temples exhibit a cool mixing of Greek and Egyptian painting, sculpture and architecture)  It was hard to peel him away from these places as we only had a small time slot to meet back up with the rest of the tour group.  We were always the last ones at the meeting point. :P  Luckily we know how, where and when to go back to these places so next time we visit we can allow more time.  Some people can easily walk through these places and ignore all the carvings and painting on the walls but it’s so awesome to have someone explain all the stories and myths and legends and rituals.

We were also informed that because most people cruise down the Nile and stay in their boats, the hotels in Aswan, Edfu and Luxor (main sites for ruins) are SUPER cheap.

The next day we woke up on Easter Sunday morning with a view of a bunch of holes in a mountain.  These were Noble Nubian Tombs! (No, there were no resurrections to be seen.)

For breakfast the boat had prepared many types of eggs and Mediterranean easter bread (sweet bread with an egg baked into it) as well as chocolate easter eggs for dessert. J 

Another negative for the boat was that it was docked REEEAAALLLLY far from luxor, which made us have to cater to the tour buses schedule.  On the last night we finally decided to pay for a cab to the city of luxor and try to catch the temples at sunset.  Now i realize the benefits of staying in luxor for a few nights- what a beautiful city!!  We found a really cool hotel/restaurant that had a rooftop patio overlooking EVERYTHING and enjoyed chicken shawerma, mollecheyyia (this goopy egyptian soup luther likes) and tahini. :)  PLUS for luxor.

( The 'Nerfertiti' hotel was unknowingly the same hotel and restaurant that my fellow staff members stayed at and RAVED about.

 

So, all in all, please come visit us and we will take you to luxor :)

The entrance to the nerfertiti hotel

rooftop patio shawerma time :)