This morning we arrived in Luxor at 5:00 am. We went to our hotel. checked in and got into our room. My Mom and sister went to bed and my Dad and I took a shower and went down to the restaurant to get some breakfast. But then we wanted to go look at the pool before breakfast. At the pool we experienced a nice coincidence. The man and his son that we spoke with at the train station in Cairo were there! The decided to stay at the same hotel!

We introduced ourselves and learned that the man’s name is Ed and his son who is 10 years old is named Benjamin. My Dad asked if they would like to have breakfast together and they said yes. We had nice breakfast and long talk. We agreed to go to The Valley of The Kings together later in the day.

We met and got a taxi to the ferry and man named Ali asked us over and over again if he could take us to The Valley of The Kings in his taxi. We said yes, and we were off. We got to The Valley of The Kings and we went to see the tombs where Egyptian kings are buried. The first tomb we explored was King Tut’s. It wasn’t as big or fancy as I thought it might be. It really had his mummy in it. We didn’t get to see his mummy because it was inside a wooden coffin.

Then we visited 4 other tombs. I really like the dark holes that we explored inside the tombs. The paintings on the walls were very colorful and fun to see. One of the tombs we explored had 142 steps. Now these steps weren’t flat. They were really steep. That means that you go down into the tomb really steeply, and then steeply back up to get ourside. It was really cool!

Then we went back over the river Nile and we got to take a taxi boat back to the hotel with Benjamin, Ed and our family. The taxi boat was a very very cool thing to do!