We’re back! The trip home was thankfully uneventful. I slept for 11 hours last night and feel terrific. What a trip! I’ve spent some time this afternoon going through my photos and picked out some of the best. Also, while I didn’t have much time (or interest) over the last week to post while in Jordan, I’ve included photos of Petra, Kerak & Jerash in this ‘best of’ collection. These shots are edited and are mostly of the monuments and sights. Very postcardy. But that’s what I like to do.

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Aswan is the southernmost big city in Egypt. We took the train there from Luxor in order to see the remote site of Abu Simbel on the Sudanese border and to cruise down the Nile in a felucca sailboat for a few days.
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We moved on to Luxor Sunday and spent the first two days exploring Karnak, Luxor temple, and the valley of the kings. That’s where all of the new kingdom dynasty pharoes were buried, King Tut etc.

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We’re one week in and have already made it to Luxor and have seen the Theban necropolis (Valley of the Kings) and the temples of Luxor and Karnak. Time is moving fast and we haven’t really had the time to post until now, so here are all my photos from Cairo and Giza up until 2 days ago.

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Well, we’re finally within sight of the end. We’re flying to San Francisco from Lima in a little more than a week. This will likely be our last post until we’re home (wherever that is) and have some photos from our Machu Pichu trek to share.
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Well, Elyse and I have finally made it to Cuzco, our last destination in Peru before our long journey home. We feel like travel weary pilgrims having finally reached our ultimate destination after months of travel. Cuzco is everything we hoped it would be (although compared to Bolivia it feels like Disneyworld with huge crowds of Japanese tourists, touts, overpriced everything…)
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According to Incan creation myths, Isla Del Sol is where the Sun and Moon were born. It sits in the middle of Lake Titicaca just north of Copacabana, and it´s possible to hike there from Copa. We decided to make a trek out of it, packed our hiking day-packs, and left our big packs in storage at the hotel.
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Copacabana is a beautiful little town that sits on the southern end of Lake Titicaca and right on the border with Peru. Elyse and I spent a week here, enjoying the dramatic change in scenery, and relaxing at the inviting Hotel Cupula (best showers in Bolivia!).
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We returned to La Paz after our jungle adventures and got a visit from an unwelcome guest – Jeff got a bad case of food poisoning and was laid up for a few days  (Don’t worry, he’s all better now).   We were lucky enough that our second stay in La Paz overlapped the biggest festival of the year in that city – El Gran Poder.
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