In the Land of internet again!

Well I am ove half way through this first parrt of the tou but internet is a rare and endangered thing in Egypt. I have acutally made it to Jordan and here there is intenet but with a keyboard that only has a few surviving letters (in english - alot in arabic!) so excuse the poor typeing! After a brief visit to the key sights in Cairo the group headed to Luxor on an ove night 'sleeper train'...... little sleeping was done by anyone.... including our tour guide Ayman. He has been doing this fo 8 years and still can't sleep on the train so don't believe Lonely Planet when it tells you that first class is good. Once we arrived in Luxor we move into ou r\Nile Rive cruise boot where we will be based for the next 4 days. Luxor is home to temples and burial sights. The most impessive sight the first day was the journey to Karnak by horse drawn carrt ..... we created a wee traffice jam! The Karnak Temple was verry impressive with huge columns. The next moning we were up extremely early as we had hot air balloon ride where we could see the Valley of the Kings, Temple of Hatshepsut from the air before we visited them on foot! First time in a hot air balloon and it was great! The sun rise was amazing and it is a highlight so far. In the Valley of the Kings we went into three diffeent burail tombs and it is amazing how well they have lasted! THe paintings on the walls of some tombs are still very bright!
Once we had completed the sights we arrived back at the boat and began our cruise down the Nile..... a vey nice way to travel!