Brendon and Victoria at the Bungalow

It was great to have Brendon and Victoria coe and stay at the Boyton Bungalow!

Farma Rama

We even managed to get Brendon onto the farm to feed out the silage for the cows. He looked like he enjoyed driving the tractor.

Bristol

During Brendon and Victoria's stay to the bungalow, we visited Bristol city. It's very nice, we even did a 2.5 hour walking tour followed by driving over the famous swing bridge.

SP's Farewell

A month ago we were very sad to goodbye to SP. He left to go back to South Africa. We had a lovely BBQ at Sam's Bosses house. John Gerring (far end), Marleen Gerring (front end), Richard (2nd back) and Nicky (3rd along front).
Followed by the boys having funnels at the bungalow

Red Sea!!

We spent many hours while in Dahab swimming, snorkelling and diving in the Red Sea. The coral and fish were amazing!!! Sam did lots of diving. He finished his open water diving course and began his advanced diving. I really enjoyed my snorkelling!

DAHAB!!!

We were all very excited to arrive at Dahab. Straight into the pool before having the afternoon to rest after our huge climb. In the evening we took jeeps (see top left photo) into the town for dinner. We did a variety of neat activities in Dahab including, quad biking in the dessert and banana boating. Such a neat place!!!

Mt Sinai

At midday, we began our 12 hour bus journey from Hurghada. We arrived at Mt Sinai at 2am to begin our climb. We climbed for 3.5 hours up the very rugged slopes (only by torch) to the summit to watch the sunrise. Luckily we had a few rest stops on the way. We then made our way down via 3800 steps!!!

Valley of the Kings

We visited the Valley of the Kings, a resting place for Kings between the 11-16th centuries. Over 60 tombs have been discovered over 1000's of years, the latest being in 2006. We entered 3 of the tombs, all being very unique. We visited an Alabaster factory before heading to the Temple of Hatsheput built in the limestone hills.

Luxor

Today we took the coach from the Felucca boats to Luxor. We had a Egyptianoligist show us around the Luxor and Karnak Temples. Both were very interesting as they are believed to be the largest ancient religious sites in the world. In the evening we walked through the markets before having dinner in an Egyptian restaurant.

Felucca Sail Boats

We left Aswan by the Nile river on Felucca sail boats. Both days, it was very windy so we did mostly floating down the river. Each night we pulled to the side where we enjoyed football games and even a campfire (in 40 degree heat). All our meals were provided on the boat (see 3rd picture in at the top)

Abu Simbil

Today we left the hotel at 3am to join a convoy of tourist buses to drive to Abu Simbil temple. The temples were incredible. They were moved 100's of years ago from down by a man made lake to the site they sit today. The statues at the front reach 10m high.

Aswan

We arrived into Aswan after a 12 hour train ride and made our way to our hotel. We has a rest before heading across the river Nile on a felucca sail boat (the boat we are spending the next 2 nights on). We had fun camel rides along the Nile before taking part in an Arabic lesson.

Cairo

In Cairo we visited a perfume shop, they are very popular in Egypt as they produce all there own oils. We also had a guided tour through the very good Egyptian museum before heading to a papyrus gallery to see a demonstration on how they create the paper. In the evening we boarded an overnight train to Aswan.