Brenda and Kemm's travels

Final Memories of Egypt

We are leaving Egypt today with this journey having shown us another of the world’s amazing places. There is real history here in Egypt but unless one studies it in as much detail as our amazing tourist guides have, it is very difficult to take too much in. Their in-depth …

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Cruising the Nile

Docked at Edfu this morning and had an interesting ride by horse and carriage to the Edfu temple – a skinny horse, a carriage??? Big wheels, not much tread, wobbly…. but we made it! Edfu temple to some was another wonderful temple to visit – there’s been heaps of them! …

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Cairo, Pyramids, Sphinx, Nile

My last news seemed so long ago but we have been so busy and are almost ‘templed out’! Arrived in Cairo and headed to the Sofitel Hotel. The river separates Cairo proper from Giza and the Sofitel is actually on the river’s edge but in Giza. As the name implies …

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Cairo, Pyramids, Sphinx, Nile

My last news seemed so long ago but we have been so busy and are almost ‘templed out’! Arrived in Cairo and headed to the Sofitel Hotel. The river separates Cairo proper from Giza and the Sofitel is actually on the river’s edge but in Giza. As the name implies …

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Day – 5 – Last 2 Days in Cairo

Flew 4 hours from Abu Dhabi to Cairo and met at the airport by an APT representative. Transferred to Sofitel. Had a welcome dinner with the tour group – only 9 of us on this tour, 2 from NZ and the rest from Australia. Thursday morning city tour  – Cairo …

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Day 3 – In Dubai

Tuesday morning we spent checking out our surrounds a little more and had a quiet lunch in the hotel grounds on the beach front – absolutely delightful there – the weather has been very kind to us whilst away and similar to home without the humidity. Pickup time for the …

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Day 2 – In Dubai

Our first full day in Dubai, or any other place we travel for that matter is usually one of ‘gather the maps’, have breakfast with maps in hand, determine where we are, what the plan is and what we do first. The area we are staying in is ‘Jumeraih’ and …

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Day 1 – Off to Dubai

As many of you know, Kemm and I are off again!! We left Brisbane lunchtime Saturday bound for our ‘Egypt trip’.First stop in the Qantas lounge at the International airport – it was chocka block!! Qantas certainly has some work to do to bring it’s standards up because there certainly …

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