Goodbye Luxor, with video!

And so our time in Luxor comes to an end. Three weeks later, writing this, I think Luxor has turned out to be my favourite stop in Egypt. The West Bank is quiet, small village, Egyptian families going about their daily business of running their shops, going to school, tending their fields, co-existing easily with the growing number of ex-pats who call this their home. 

We say good bye to our magnificent terrace, the Valley of the Kings, our hosts Claudia, Ali and Iman and their team who ensured we were well cared for.

We say goodbye to the mosques and call to prayers that we heard five times a day, to the fisher boys and men who still work the Nile in wooden boats from sunrise to sunset.

We say goodbye to a way of life that has not changed much, still using manual ways of building,  farming and transportation.

We say goodbye to the daily water traffic, which gave us so much joy to watch, never tiring of the ebb and flow of Nile life. Better than any e-media!

Goodbye to the Hotel al-Farouk, who's garden courtyard gave us a welcome wifi respite, replete with the best lemonade and guava juice, an incredible multi-platter Egyptian dinner, a calm spot in an adjustment storm, where ex-pats gather and we were so grateful to hear so much English! 

And not to disappoint, our driver arrives to get us to the Luxor airport, we're flying directly to Cairo for 3 days. He plays his favourite CD for us to give us one last taste of Luxor life. Thank you to everyone who's path we crossed here. We LOVED Luxor!