Pray for me please: hot air balloon ride tomorrow morning! Plus, good news!
Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:30 AM
Category: Travel and Places
I’m starting to want to recant my new year’s resolution (take more risks) but I’ve already paid for a hot air balloon ride over Luxor, Egypt at 5-something a.m. tomorrow morning! Wahid (our tour guide) says he’ll show me pictures from others’ rides on Facebook and it will be just fine. Ahhh!
Don’t get me wrong, I still very much love my adventure trip here. Still, I am EXHAUSTED!!!! I’m also SO over hotels. I must have stayed in at least 12 over the past 3 weeks of varying quality (some of them didn’t even have clean dishes or showers – I’ve been sleeping on my own sheet I packed).
I have seen the yesterday I spent all day cruising and sleeping on the Nile river in a felucca (a little boat with sails and no motor), we had a bonfire until all hours of the night, I’ve learned so much about the aftermath of apartheid from South Africans (kinda like extreme affirmative action now) and just enjoyed awesome conversations. To my knowledge, I only got bit by one mosquito (but who knows what happened as I squatted over dirt in those bushes! ) and our tour guide put iodine and a band-aid on it.
Today, I visited the Karnak Temple of Amun-Ra (I probably spelled that wrong) and had another in-home meal with an Egyptian family (they gets down! Love home cooking!!) and am finally having some sit-down time to just relax. Tonight in about 1 1/2 hours at 8pm (Egypt is 10 hours ahead of Vegas, I’ve heard), we watch belly dancing, Sufi dancing and some other sort of Egyptian dances while having a nice meal.
So I’m looking forward to that and some SLEEP.
Lots of love!
