Gracy Bee

Egypt 11th April

Posted on February 8th, 2007 by GracyBee.
Categories: Places.

Flashback 11th April 2006

Today marks the official end of our holiday, and we’re not doing any visitation, but rather, ‘travelling’ day. After a whole day rest yesterday, XC felt much better and gained some strength. We have bought some bread in the Aswan Bazaar last night that would last us our breakfast and lunch today.

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We left Aswan at 6am and embarked on what I called the longest train journey of my lifetime: 14 hrs from Aswan all the way back to Cairo. *sweat*.

saying goodbye to Aswan

Our plan is to get dinner from Felucca where we had our meal while in Cairo (1st day), and catch the bus to the airport. By this time, XC has totally lost his voice. alamak~~ what happened???

Taking a quick snap of Cairo town

Though it is unfortunate that XC got sick, but we considered ourselves lucky cos he actually felt sick towards the end of the holiday and not at the beginning…hohoho…if not I sure gotta strangle him! OoooOOops.

at the Airport

Our flight was at wee hours of the morning. Despite not doing any visitation today, we were surprisingly tired and zzz once we board the plane bound for Amsterdam.

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We finally reached home in the afternoon, and actually felt good to come home to the chilly England. Now is the time to sort out laundry, thesis and work to earn back the money I’ve spent.

Overall

I’m pleased in how the trip has turned out: worthwhile, successful and within budget. I have learnt a lot more of Egyptian history. Not only that, I have also gained experience in overall planning and management. So far, I have visited the more important places. My next trip, I would like to visit those less famous places, like the Amarna.

Going to Egypt by ourselves gave us the chance to see and experience the local lifestyle. While we get to experience the bustling of the city life and the warmness of the people, we also get to see the poorest of the poor. Seeing them make me realised that I have been living too much in comfort and laziness!

Three positive things that did happened to me were, firstly, I didn’t develop any allergies (I’m puzzled cos I am allergic to dust mites), and secondly not once have I experienced any gastric pains to the local food (that is strange as I can have gastric pain with some ‘outside’ food i had in UK, Msia and Spore) Thirdly, this trip has renewed the vigour in me to exercise to build up my stamina. Before, I was always postponed my exercising schedule to ‘tomorrow’ and ‘tomorrow’.

I felt more energetic than before, and it is true that a holiday break does good to people, like me. Yippee~~ my next holiday destination: Cambodia, sometime in the near future.

Some statistics

No. of photos taken: 400+
Air ticket: £285
Overall expenditure per pax: Egyptian pound 1180 (= £131)
Knowledge and experience gained: priceless

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