Egypt Pictures!
Jan 7th 2007adminAfrica & Egypt
Yes, I’ve finally gotten our pictures from Egypt sorted through and on the site. They are in two albums, one from the first half and the other from the second half. They’re in the Gallery, so enjoy!
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Belgium Pictures
Dec 1st 2006sarahBelgium & Europe
Finally I’ve gotten my Belgium pictures up. I tried to get captions on, but I need to work them a bit. I hope you enjoy!
I’m still sorting some things out with Gallery2, but I’m sure you’ll all bear with me while I do that!
Egypt, Day 7 – Pool, pool, pool, and a quick trip to town
Nov 25th 2006adminAfrica & Egypt
Clearly, with today being our last full day, we wanted to make the most of it. So, we remained by the pool for the majority of it. However, because I had ordered a new necklace, one with my name written in Arabic, we did have to get up off our lazy bums and go into town. And to be fair, we did want to check out the Luxor Museum which we had missed before because there wasn’t enough time.
I’m really happy that we did go to Luxor for the museum, in the end. I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to leave the sun, but we were up early and by the pool long enough that it didn’t seem like a sacrifice. The museum was pretty cool, with a bunch of stuff from Tut’s tomb
Egypt, Day 6 – Luxor
Nov 24th 2006sarahAfrica & Egypt
Today we decided to get up early and head into Luxor for the day. There were a few things there that we wanted to see, Karnak Temple again, Luxor Temple, Luxor Museum, maybe the mummification museum, and really I wanted to do some shopping and just have a nose around.
Well, the early bit didn’t really happen. We were out the door and in town by 11, so we were doing pretty good. We arranged for a taxi to take us to Karnak Temple, and then pick us back up to drop us off at the Luxor Museum.
This is the day I got my cartuche. I bought it on Saturday night.
Egypt, Day 5 – Fellah’s Tent
Nov 20th 2006sarahAfrica & Egypt
Tonight was the night we went to Fellah’s Tent. Sunday, it’s also the day I got my henna tattoo. We spent the majority of the day by the pool – yeah we did do a lot of that – and when the henna girl, Maria, came round with her book, I got suckered into getting one done. I’d been debating all week so far, thinking that I wanted one. Paul convinced me that I should. I really wanted something on my hands, wrist, etc, but decided against it. I had to speak at a conference thingy on the first day back, so I wanted something that not everyone could see. So after skimming through her book of designs, I made up my mind to have a lotus flower on my back. 
And that’s what it looked like. While she started to put the design on my back, she asked me what my name was. She then offered to put it on my back in Arabic as well. That’s what is written at the top. It was quite cool. She made a paste up with the henna, and then put it on really thick. It then dried and when I showered it cleaned it up and defined the image a bit more. I wanted to get another one before I left, but it just didn’t happen. It was good, though, it’s still just fading away now, and it’s been almost three weeks! I think I got a pretty good deal.
So, we had to meet in the hotel lobby for Fellah’s Tent at 4:30. The event was being held at our hotel, and we’d seen the tents that they used, back by the pool.The first thing after meeting the guide was head down to the dock, where the hotel’s feluccas dock. They got us all dressed up in galabayas and we went for a sunset felucca ride, and got out up river, where the infinity pool and tents were. We were “piped” in by a band of three or four men. I like to think it was a bedouin band, but I might be wrong there.
We really enjoyed Fellah’s tent. It was really one of the best evenings we spent. We had a huge buffett meal, all Egyptian food. I had the best falafel ever, with lamb kofta and kebab and all this yummy dessert, like baklava and tons of things made with honey and almonds and pistachios. The food in Egypt overall was great. We didn’t have anything bad at all the whole time we were there.
There was tons of entertainment. There were these guys who danced with sticks, then came back with a panto horse that I got to ride! There was also a belly dancer, a snake charmer! – we have a picture of Paul with a cobra round his neck!! – and a whirling dervish. It was such a good evening, and they had a photographer there taking pictures of everything, and then later at the hotel, they were selling them. We got a couple, mainly because we wanted to use up our Egyptian pounds, but also because they were quite neat and pretty good pictures. Much better than what I was taking. Simply too distracted to take a nice picture!
We had such a good night. I loved every minute of it. I would easily go back and do it all over again.
