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7SeasLover
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Posted: Sat Aug 30th, 2008 06:52 pm | 1st Post |
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Anyone with any experience on a GCT Egypt tour? We're booked on GCT departing April 18, 2009.
My first riverboat cruise. We'll be sailing on the MS Anuket.
Anyone have anything good, bad, or indifferent to say? Not much chatter on riverboats.
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Posted: Sun Aug 31st, 2008 02:36 am | 2nd Post |
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| I envy you your trip! I'd love to see Egypt. Maybe we can all live vicariously through your eyes. Enjoy!
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Posted: Sun Aug 31st, 2008 02:55 am | 3rd Post |
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I just created our Egypt website. Here's a link:
http://web.me.com/ginnybender/Site/Welcome.html
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Posted: Mon Sep 1st, 2008 04:11 am | 4th Post |
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That's cool! It's nice to be able to put a face with a name too!
Honestly, the only river cruise I ever did was on our boat and once on a steamboat on the Missouri River for my daughter's birthday a loooong time ago. This looks like sooo much more fun!
Although that isn't anything like what you're planning, there is one thing that I think will be similar. You get a much different look at the country and how the people live on the river than you would get from the road. Lots more wildlife too.
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Posted: Mon Sep 1st, 2008 04:45 pm | 5th Post |
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hstrybuf wrote: I envy you your trip! I'd love to see Egypt.
I would too. I am just a little leery right now about going over that way, due to so much unrest and hatred of Americans............
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Posted: Wed Sep 3rd, 2008 05:44 pm | 6th Post |
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We did a riverboat cruise of the Nile two years ago. It was WONDERFUL! Just the right amount of relaxing between tours. I still tell people that i felt like I was floating through a copy of a National Geographic magazine.
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Posted: Wed Sep 3rd, 2008 06:01 pm | 7th Post |
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debinnh wrote: National Geographic magazine.
I wish Rick would leave his freaking clothes on!
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Posted: Sat Sep 6th, 2008 01:47 pm | 8th Post |
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Ginny, will you be going to see Abu Simbel while you're there? This is one I'd really love to visit and I understand from reading a travel blog that it's well worth the trip.
Attachment: abu simbel.jpg (Downloaded 35 times)
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Posted: Sat Sep 6th, 2008 04:06 pm | 9th Post |
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Abu Simbel was very cool, even more impressive is the fact that they took it apart piece by piece and put it back together on higher ground when the built the Aswan Dam. You would never know it unless a guide pointed out some of the tell tale signs.
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Posted: Sat Sep 6th, 2008 05:01 pm | 10th Post |
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debinnh wrote: Abu Simbel was very cool, even more impressive is the fact that they took it apart piece by piece and put it back together on higher ground when the built the Aswan Dam. You would never know it unless a guide pointed out some of the tell tale signs.
Deb, I remember seeing pictures of the pieces. Amazing work and it still looks good, at least in pictures.
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Posted: Sun Sep 7th, 2008 04:47 am | 11th Post |
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This has inspired me to finally download some of my 2000+ pics onto webshots! Here is the link to the select 147 I chose:
http://good-times.webshots.com/album/566570557VCyxKz?vhost=good-times
Last edited on Sun Sep 7th, 2008 04:49 am by debinnh
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Posted: Sun Sep 7th, 2008 02:42 pm | 12th Post |
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| Absolutely fantastic pictures! Thanks Deb! You really captured it all . . . the landscape, the people, Egypt's present and past.
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Posted: Sun Sep 7th, 2008 05:43 pm | 13th Post |
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Thanks. The people there were amazingly friendly and were always waving to us and smiling. Seeing life on the Nile was so much better than just taking a bus from site to site where we would have missed that.
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Posted: Sun Sep 7th, 2008 08:19 pm | 14th Post |
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debinnh wrote: Thanks. The people there were amazingly friendly and were always waving to us and smiling. Seeing life on the Nile was so much better than just taking a bus from site to site where we would have missed that.
Nice pics Deb!
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Posted: Sun Sep 7th, 2008 09:58 pm | 15th Post |
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Thanks. It took only a year and a half to post them! Next up will be Hawaii and the Crown Princess cruise from last year.
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