Monday, November 01, 2004

Day 6: Luxor to Cairo

Oct 21

We were flying to Cairo at 11am.


Luxor Temple, day time. The mosque is shown here, within the temple compound (see post below for more detail) Posted by Hello

Spent the morning walking the streets of Luxor. It was very peaceful.
We saw and went into Winter Palace. According to HZ, Agatha Christie, the author who wrote mysteries novel, stayed here while she was writing this book called "Death on the Nile."

I wish I am in the train group so I could spend more time in Luxor. In fact, we saw many kwai los renting bicycle and cycling around town. Now, that would be REALLY interesting.

Reached Cairo.

Went for lunch at this restaurant called Soiree. Unfortunately the restaurant was packed so we went to another place called Fish Boat. Food sucks though.

Free and easy. We wanted to visit Cairo Tower but were too exhausted to walk towards it.

Dinner - Chinese Restaurant. It's so red it looks like a brothel to me more than a restaurant.

After dinner, we asked Mohammad if he could dropped us in Hilton Rameses. According to HZ who asked someone in Sheraton, Hilton Rameses is one of the biggest shopping centers in Cairo.

We took taxi back to Sheraton. It's not too far. Having nothing to do, I tried to learn how to read license plate number :)