The highlight of the cruise is when one of the performers go around all tables while doing tricks, and sing pop song but in your languages!!! When he comes to our table, he is singing a very new Chinese pop song in Chinese!!!! Totally unexpected!!!:)

It's so funny that some of our camels keep trying to go to another direction becoz that's the direction where they'll have their lunch!!:P One Arabic word we learnt from the camel guide, "Yalla" to the camel means "let's go"!!!!:)

It feels so great to step on a piece of land free of footsteps:P

This is why I love desert!!! You can never see the end of this creamy looking sand dune sea!!!<3
March is really a great time to visit Egypt, I'm not feeling hot at all even though I'm in the desert!

He is our adventure guide!:) There used to be a village here around this oasis long long time ago but the whole village is under the sand now.

Waking up early in the morning and enjoying breakfast in the middle of the desert. It feels so surreal and great!:)

Our drivers are so multi-talented! They become chef, dancer, singer, musician!!! We had a great night!!! Where's the restroom? We all do it behind a huge rock far away from the tent hah, left side for guys, rite side for gal, then covered with sand:P

This exotic camping adventure is unbeatable!!!! I'm stunned by the moment we exit our car!! Super soft sand+millions of stars above+moonlit beautiful huge rocks+nobody else within hundreds of miles!!!

With two cars of people+one car of camping equipment, our guide is taking us deep into the Sahara desert!!! I'm so glad our guide used to be a rescuer in this desert, he can navigate by recognizing the shapes of the sand dunes!!!!

Our hotel is super nice but super cheap coz it's low diving season!!!!!! There's even a sea water pool!!!:P

There are memorials right next to the blue hole for divers who had died in the hole. Accident usually happen when divers try to find the tunnel through the reef to the open water at ~170ft depth. Scary~~ >.<

This famous blue hole is 430ft deep!!! We got to be careful not to drop anything or ourselves down there!!!!

We are at the bottom of the canyon...under the water!!!:) As part of the deep dive certification, we have to do maths calculations 90fts under the water!!!! (coz we'll have effects of alcohol due to the gases built up in our body in deep water) :D

We are going to certify for deep dive in this canyon. Those are actually bubbles from other divers inside the canyon we are abt to dive into!!:D

A lion fish!

"Red Sea" has only reminded me of "Moses crossing the Rea Sea", I've never thought it's actually a tropical paradise!!

This is the perfect place to relax and enjoy the sunset before catching a night flight to the Red Sea.

Shisha (flavored tabacco) is very popular in Egypt. You can find a Shisha "cafe" as easily as you can find Starbucks in the states:)

He's finishing my desert+camel scene in 5 mins. Amazing!!! While we are waiting for our souvenir to be done, the owner of the store suddenly invite us to dance with them in the store!!!!! ^^

They have how-to for mummy creation:)

I love this souvenir! <3 Those are our names written in hieroglyphic:P

This whole valley contains more than 60 tombs for the Pharaohs! For most of the them we follow corridors down into the beautifully decorated chambers. Some tombs are just halfly done since the Pharaoh died before the huge project is completed:P

This hotel is such a gem for the price we paid:P Enjoying our breakfast in this peaceful countryside:)

Catching some sleep in a 3 hrs train ride..zzz

This temple with massive giants was carved right out of the mountain!!!!!

We are in a 3 hrs van ride to Abu Simbel in a convoy escorted by the military the whole way becoz of the danger of terrorism.

In Cairo, everybody would try to cheat u, while people in Aswan are so nice! esp our guides are so trustworthy!!:)
This temple was moved from its original location piece by piece coz it was flooded by Aswan dam for half a century!

This museum houses soo many tomb treasures, Pharaoh's mummies, all the important pieces of ancient Egypt!!! Too bad we can't take any pictures inside!! It should be even more interesting if we have a local guide with us:)

This must be the Pizza Hut with the best view in the world!:P We thought Pyramids are in the middle of nowhere, turns out you can see them on the road in the city!

The Pyramids are sooo magnificent!!! Each stone is almost the same height as me. The Pyramids used to have a smooth outer limestone casing, now you can only spot the remaining part at the top. It must be truly blinding when they were new!!!:)

Visiting Pyramids has been my childhood dream. And now I'm crawling inside the largest Pyramid of all!!! (150 max visitors in the morning and afternoon) This tiny tunnel leads to the chamber where Pharaoh Khufu was buried.

I guess we have more than 10 interesting stories abt cabs in Cairo:
- Two cabs have broken down and we need to push the car on the highway!
- If u can't open the door, just open the window and unlock the door from outside! This is normal!:)