Egypt trip

Egypt trip from January 1^st to 8^th was the longest family trip ever.

Usually our family trips are max 3 nights and 4 days... so this trip felt soooo long.

Fun fact? I only learned about this trip a day before. -.-

This is only the schedule. For me to remember and all..

Jan 2^st

4:30am Woke up

5:00~11:00 Drove to the border crossing area in Eilat

12:00~7:00pm Drove to Cairo on this 20 passenger van (THIS 5 HOUR RIDE WAS A TORCHUR)

7:00~8:30pm Dinner with my dad's friends who work at the same company as him

9~10pm Rest at hotel

Jan 3^nd

5:30am Woke up

6:00~7:00am Arrive to Cairo Airport and rode plane to Aswan

7:15~8:30 Arrived at ASWAN

8:45~9:00 On the way to Hotel...

9:00~10:00 Rest

10:00~1:00 We were supposed to be on our way to Abu Simbel by convoy but protest broke up and blocked the road. So we waited for 3 hours on the van -.-

1:07~4:00 Rode the van to Abu Simbel......... (another amazingly long trip....on the desert)

4:00~5:00 Visited Abu Simbel(Abu Simbil). (Huge statues for Ramses II and tiny tiny one for his wife)

6:00~9:00 Back to our hotel. (ANOTHER DRIVEEEEEEEEEEEEE)
10:00~11:00 Rest and then sleep

Jan 4^th

7:00 Woke up

8:00 ride ze cruise

I forgot what happened... oh dear. Wait lets think..we went to lots and lots of places..

9:00~9:30 Visited the high dam site in Aswan, and then the Soviet Union and Egypt monument

10~12:00 Philae Temple (it was on top of a island so we rode a boat to reach there)

2:00~7:00 Rest at cruise (amazingly boring and hard to rest at a cruise. Nothing at all. To. do.)

~eat dinner~

8:00~9:00pm Kom Ombo Temple

11:00pm sleep

the Russian monument 

on the boat

Phile temple 

our cruise

they are shops

Jan 5^th

6:30 woke up

7~9am Visit the Edfu temple

for the rest of the day, rest..

Jan 6^th

5am Woke up (we are now in Luxor~)

6am~6pm Went to The Valley of the King and Queens, Al-Deir Al-Bahari (Hatsheput) Temple, Karnak temple, Luxor temple

Dinner at cruise :D

7:30pm Belly dancer and Dervish dance at lobby

ice cream ♥ (it was too expensive.)

people selling... stuff on boats to us 

elephant and crocodile 

hahhahha what boredom does to us

have you seen a Santa with those eyes???

these eyes!

Jan 7^th

5:00 woke up

7:00~8:00 Rode the plane from Luxor to Cairo

8:00~9:00 wait an hour because the baggage system in Egypt is outrageous

10~12:00 Visit the famous Giza Pyramids (three of them. We also went inside the third one. Which is the son of Kufu's) and the Spinx

12:00~12:20pm Went to the Papyrus shop to learn how to make the paper. We also bought two to cover our bare walls at home... lol (walls in my house are so bare. We having nothing hung.)

1~2pm went to Old Cairo to visit churches and mosques

2:15~3:15 Lunch at this Chinese restaurant. The waiters looked really anxious because they thought we were Chinese. (not to mention they turned on this Chinese music and gave us Chinese written menu boards... lol)

4~6pm Egyptian museum (huge...) we didn't have enough time to see..

6~6:30 Rest at Hotel

7~8pm Watched the sound and light show of the Pyramids. The entrance fee was 40 DOLLARS and it was the worst sound and light show I've been to. The entrance fee should have been $5. Horrid show. DO NOT GO WHEN YOU GO THERE. But of course I told the guide it was magnificent with a smile on my face.

8:30~10pm Dinner with Joon Ho's family. I had nothing to talk about with Joon ho. So for the first 10 minutes we didn't say a word to each other. Lol it was fine. Not awkward.

11pm arrive at hotel and sleep. Omg thankyou sleep.

Jan 8^th

5:00 Woke up

5:15~12:00 Rode the van from Cairo to Taba boarding line (-.-)

1:00~4:30 Visit the Eliat underwater aquarium (very expensive entrance fee there..)

5:00~8:30 Arrived HOMEEEE!!! (it took only 3 hours)

at 8:30pm, I just slept on the bed and woke up at 7.

but others ate dinner and then slept at I don't know what time.

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