Travelling
After the now usual months of silence on the blog, I’m back with a post about my latest two holidays… Now, writing on this blog feels a bit like trying to inject adrenaline in a dead body… but anyways…
China. 3 weeks (and something more), leaving everything behind. Beijing, Shanghai, Xi’an, Chengdu, Yangtze river cruise, Yangshuo, Hong Kong… a marvellous tour, only young people in the group (all between 22 and 33 yo), we really had fun. 4 trips on night trains, chinese food (spicy!), the Great Wall, the skyscrapers in Shanghai, the Terracotta warriors, pandas, the bike ride through the countryside, the light show in Hong Kong… It would deserve a nice travel diary (I took notes on my palmtop during the trip), but for the time being it will reamain a good intention… Here a few pictures with my new D90…
Egypt. For New Year’s Eve I found this tour, managing to squeeze it in the vacation days I was given… I was a bit doubtful, but I didn’t really have many options and so I tried.
Well, I ended up in the first egyptian tour sponsored by Discovery Channel, with the best guid/egyptologyst ever (I dare anyone to disagree), the great Mayer (here if you scroll down a bit you can see him in a plastic pose on the Discovery website). The tour had some crazy timings (almost always waking up around 5.00-5.30 or worse!), but we visited some amazing places and temples, all supported by Mayer’s great explanations and a heterogeneous group that managed to get together with no problems at all… Highlights: dawn at Abu Simbel, the Valley of the Kings, Karnak… Maybe the best GAP tour of my four so far… even if all of them were great in their own way…
Here the best pictures…
Let’s see how many months till the next post…
