Sunday, August 05, 2007

Tuesday 1st May

I woke up just before 3am to hear Glen throwing up in the bathroom. I went to see if he was ok. I had to give him an injection to help with the vomiting. He wasn’t sure if he should go to Abu Simbil because it was a three hour bus ride through the dessert. I got ready and Glen decided he shouldn’t go even though he really wanted too. So I went with Jen. There were a few people missing from our group, and it was a good thing Glen didn’t go because the seats on the bus were really uncomfortably and so was the drive let alone feeling sick.

We drove through the dessert and had to drive in a convoy. It was quiet hot when we arrived and a couple of people fainted too. Abu simbil was amazing which made me feel bad because Glen wasn’t there and he was looking forward to it. I took as much video and photos as I could but I was not aloud to film inside the temples.
When we got back to the hotel to meet the rest of the group Glen said he was feeling better.

We then walked down to the water at the back of the hotel to board our felucca boats. They were awesome and for the rest of the afternoon we just lay there in the sun and slept and listened to music it was really relaxing and peaceful.

All the feluccas stopped on shore at about 5pm. There were about 6 feluccas. We had dinner and swam in the nile. We hand to go to the toilet in the bushes. That night some of the boat drivers and crew were playing the drums and also we got to try the shisha- it was apple flavour.

Kieran

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