Two young kings !

Nine amazing days in Egypt introduced to this wonder of the world called Egyptian history . It wasn't so much the pyramids , but the entire experience of sailing on the Nile for four days , the zipping through Greek and ROman history in Alexandria , the ceaseless haggling over antiques , the hunt for cleopatra's bust , the felucca ride to Banana island , the saharan climate with miles and miles of desert and the lovely overnight train ride from Cairo to Aswan and then back from Luxor to Cairo .
The Egyptians have done an outstanding part of packaging their history and also knocking out that part of Greco-Roman history that does nto suit them . The absence of Chinese fakes all over the curios and antiques shops is the real wonder of the world .
The blueness of the mediterranean sea is rivalled by the blueness ( yeah, right - 'blue'ness ) of the red sea .The two kings that have created Egptian history are Tutankhamen and Alexander ( my fav king al them all ) . King Tutankhamen was king when he was 8 and died when he was 18 , while Alexander died at 32 . They pretty much had half the world under them by the time they died .
The Luxor and Karnak temples were eye-popping.
The most exhilarating thing of it all was getting clicked next to the bust of Alexander near the bibliotheque alexandrina on the corniche at Alexandria !
Enchanted enough to do a trail through Saharan Egypt someday .