Sunday 29th of April

It was an early start today we had to be up at 7am have brekkie, check out, drop off our bags and be on our bus by 845am. We also had to hand in our documents to get and ISIC student card, so we could see things for half price.

After a very quick breakfast we hopped on our bus to go and see the step pyramid at Sakkara and the Great pyramids and Sphinx on the Giza plateau. The step pyramid was the first pyramid and is the most ancient construction. It was very cool but we had to be wary of the men on donkeys and camels around the area because if you took pictures of them they wanted money, this was the same also for the great pyramids. At the step pyramid there was a freaky little man on a donkey he was weird looking and ppl took a picture of him and he chased them for money. In Sakkara we were also able to go into a pyramid which was quite cool but not very extravagant as the movies and TV depicts.

We then went to the great pyramid which was amazing and went on a camel ride (see video….but very shakey). Kieran kicked her big toe on part of the camel saddle as she was getting on the camel. So I was sitting on top of this camel with my toe stinging like hell because the top had come off and my toe was bleeding into my sandal and I was also trying to take pictures at the same time. Despite all this the camel ride was fun….Glen said I have a camel toe!

For lunch we had a buffet where we had a view of the Sphinx and the 3 pyramids. After lunch we went up to the Sphinx to get photos. It was not as big as Kieran had thought it would be, but was just what I was thinking it was. Its face is wearing away and the pigeons sit in the crevasses of its face. It has no nose because some crazy Christian guy broke it off 100’s of years ago because he thought the Egyptian people worshipped the Sphinx

Afterwards we went to and Egyptian oil-perfume place where they make the flower oils for designer perfumes, they smell the same but apparently last longer because there is no alcohol in them. We bought one each I got Kenzo flower and Glen got eternity. They also had lovely perfume bottles that kind of reminded me of I dream of genie bottles.

We then headed back to the hotel to prepare for our overnight train trip to Aswan. At 9pm we got our bus to the train station for our 10pm train. At the station they made us put our bags though an xray machine (the guy watching wasn’t even really looking at the screen) so u can imagine 110 ppl all having to put their hiking packs and suite cases into this thing. It took ages and was annoying. We got there early do we didn’t miss the train but as all trains this one was late and we didn’t get on till 10:30. Kieran was very annoyed because there were 5x 6 seater cabins and 2x 3 seater cabins. By the time we got on the train all the 6seaters were gone and only the 3 seaters were left which were small and had no leg room at all. So we were not happy and had a crap sleep with cramped up legs. See video of train cabin