Abydos out of screen

i couldn't find a best way to start over this blog than the following one. Pieces of my trip to Egypt, two years ago. Of all the countries and places and cities i'd like to go around the world, there's just one where my mum and brother would follow me and that's Egypt. We so not have the same tastes! That's scary sometimes. But i know since i'm very young that we share this special bound to this country and its past history. We are found of ancient Egypt, Gods stories, pyramids and all this mystery. My parents went there when my brother and i were very very young and so, like 20 years later, we decided to go there too before it's too late and everything has disapeared. So the three of us landed in Cairo at the end of july for 10 days of travel. Cairo, Luxor, Edfu, Esna, Aswan, Abu Simbel, Sakara, Abydos...by plane, bus, horse, boat, or walking... we did it all, saw it all, drank those stories about ancient Gods and their family bounds or their kingdoms. We had a FABULOUS guide who told us just everything we needed to know to feel like we actually were about to meet Horus or Akhenaton by coming in the temples.

 Fab trip. Eyes wiiiiide open all along, i couldn't get enough. i recommand it to anyone who hasn't been there yet, go, go and visit, learn, before it's too late. it's really worth it. we learnt about ancient Egypt, about Egypt today too, about politics and religion. Getting out of your comfortable house and life sometimes learns you things. Even on tourism trip. i learnt, every day i was there i learnt, about me, about the world. Seeing things on tv is a thing, seeing it for real that's another deal. Even knowing Egypt is not the poorer country on earth, getting out of the European life is getting you wiser. Our guide explained us what were the problems there like poverty, sanitary problems or else that was interesting to learn how people live in another place than what you're used to know. It changes how you see the world and your behaviour somehow.

Another thing hit me there. i had taken my mp3 player, of course, full of songs for the travels in plane and bus. The poor machine was so full of songs i thought it'd just blow. In the end i realized i just listened to one song during these 10 days : Meet me halfway by Black Eyed Peas. i had their new album THE E.N.D. and was discovering it in the plane. i think i just fell in love with this song. it fitted so WELL with the ambiance here, the smell, how i felt, what i was seeing, learning, touching, the desert, the red moon, Karnak by night, and trips under a very very hot sun... i just couldn't get enough of listening to this song. i had it on repeat mode for hours. When i came back in France, the video clip was out on tv and when i saw it i was glad to see that the video was about desert and all. i had understood the lyrics but they could have done a very different clip of it. This is not an extraordinary video. we've seen better but it's a beautiful one, and a peaceful one. i love it on the very first 10sec. it made me think of Egypt and people we met there, people we left. Coming back was difficult, i was so deep inside ancient Egypt stories that it took me few weeks to really feel like home again.
That was a great trip, not sure i'll go there again, for many reasons (money, time, other places to see, some stuffs i really didn't like there too....) but i'll keep an great memory of it and was happy to share it with my mum and brother.


Since then, Meet me Halfway stays still the "Egypt" song to me and keep reminding me of this trip.