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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