Some from last months holiday in Egypt.
Exif is intact in each photo.
(1) Table - taken at the hotel bar overlooking the Nile and mountains of Valley of the Kings.
(2) Bird - lots of birds lurked around. Kingfishers ducked and dived and fought with Egrets while sparrows and other smaller birds were not at all shy of approaching the tables.
(3) Balcony - the view from the Sonesta was great although we only had a standard room.
(4) Balloon - one downside of this holiday was the early starts for things like balloon trips. But it was worth it.
(5) Balloon 2 - the trail in the hills crossed from the valley of the kings (or was it queens) to the workers tombs area. Or something like that.
(6) Deflate - the balloon was deflated and all I could think about was the Open University
(7) Sing for Baksheesh - the locals who helped take down the balloon put on a sing-sing for us - and they did it with one thing on their mind - baksheesh!
(8) Falluka - one of the many boats competing for rivertime.
(9) Memnon - driving towards the Valley of the Kings you pass two giant statues of Memnon. One of them is in fact a one armed bandit.
(10) Queen Hatchepsut - mad cross-dressing woman who indulged in murder, incest, and anything to build a huge temple and reign over Egypt.
(11) Pyramids - Giza. Enjoy a romantic camel ride through a rubbish tip on the way to this viewpoint...!
(12) Sphinx - we were there too early in the day and the haze was bad. Any later though and the locals would have been even more unbearable.
(13) Inside Mohammed Ali mosque - the guide neglected to mention they were just murdering bar-stewards. It stank of cheesy feet in here!
(14) Eyeball - broken remants still being assembled in the temple at Karnak yield many intersting things to see.
(15) Avenue of the Sphinxs - a bit of a formula photo this one but had to be done.
(16) Stalls - in case you forgot anything.
(17) - Sunset Falluka - I took shedloads of sunset shots.
(18) - Stella - this holiday was brought to you by our sponsors, Stella - reassuringly inexpensive.
