Hew and Stephs' Trip 2011: Egypt

Next stop Egypt. First stop Cairo, a week or so before we arrived the government decided to 'interupt' a protest and subsequently killed 20 or 30 people...so we were a little weary coming here. All was good though. The Pyramids and Egyptian Museum were awesome, we rode our way around the Pyramids and Sphinx on camels, we barely saw a single person while we were there...The Museum is just enormous, 300,000 + exhibits including the artefacts of Tutankhamun's tomb and a dozen or so mummies. We were exhuasted by the time we finished, went out for dinner and Steph got some food poisoning that lasted on and off for a couple of weeks...ewww. We sleeper trained down to Aswan for a Nile Cruise and tour of the East and West banks of Luxor...but before the cruise we headed down by overnight Police convoy to Abu Simbel, and happened to stumble across a celebration that happens twice a year, and features some statues at the back of the inside of the temple being lit by Sun at sunrise....talk about some exact architecture.
The tours of the temples and tombs of Luxor was great....Ancient Egypt is to be seen to be believed - Abu Simble was the highlight for us.
We then flew to Sharm El Sheikh to head to Dahab for some backpacker style diving for a couple of days before heading to Sharm for some more Red Sea action including the world's most famous diving shipwreck - The Thistlegorm.