6 Continents, 5 Months

After waking up to the beautiful sunrise in the desert, we packed up and continued to make our way. We were driving to our next destination, Luxor the ancient city of thieves and the Vally Of The Kings. We were told the drive would we only fovea or six hours but we kept getting stopped by police at check stations so the drive took around nine hours. To get through the check stop without waiting for two hours (we learned that the hard way) we just gave the cops a little basheesh, which is Arabic for the donut fund. All the guards were heavily armed with an AK-47 or a Uzi so we had to stop for our own safety. We drove for the entire day and finally arrived to our hotel after sundown. Across from our hotel was an ancient avenue that had miniature sphinxes every ten feet! That pattern continued for three kilometres. It stretched from the Temple Of Luxor to the Temples of Karnak. The avenue is thirty feet below the other roads or the city so it looked pretty unsafe driving and on your side was a thirty foot cliff for the entire drive. We didn't see much today except for the lights shining on on of the temples on the other side of a foothill from the Valley Of The Kings. We got to our hotel and called it a night.