We are staying at the most awesome hotel I've ever been in- the Sonesta St. George. You should check out their photos:
It's a 5-star hotel with western showers and flatscreen tvs in the rooms. It's fabulous. We're having a good time.
Today, Susan, Janelle and I got up early to take the ferry over to the Valley of the Kings. We get hassled a lot, but as soon as a little Arabic comes out of our mouths (usually Arabic for "we don't want any") they leave us alone and go harass other tourists. The taxis and kadesh drivers are a little more forceful, but usually go away eventually. You can tell that they are fairly hard up for cash right now- the horses drawing the kadeshes are much skinnier than usually found in Luxor, and the taxis will stop as they drive by which didn't really happen last year. There are tons of guys outside the big hotels (like ours) trying to get you to take their taxi or their kadesh. There are also a lot more people coming up to you to sell stuff. We're dealing pretty well though. Because much of the Valley was closed (for security reasons?) we ended up visiting Karnak too. We had a lot fun playing there, and got to visit some of our favorite places. I'll post about that some other time.
Tomorrow our plan is to go to Medinet Habu (of Ramses III), and from their walk to Deir el-Medina (the workman's village) and hike up the gebel over to Deir el Bahri (of Hatshepsut). It will be long but the view of the Nile is well worth it.
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