We had a relaxing day on board and departed Buenos Aires around 6:00 p.m. and entered the River Plate. This giant estuary is at the confluence of the Paraná and Uruguay rivers. The estuary is the widest in the world at 140 miles with a length of 180 miles. The Paraná is one of the …
Before leaving Buenos Aires we walked across the road from the hotel to investigate the Retiro Main Railway Station. It is a late 19th century building with Spanish influence and a wrought iron roof reminiscent of many in the UK. This is a main line station with modern multiple unit trains. Next door, however, was …
Our arrival in Buenos Aires was delayed a little because of an aeroplane change in London. We flew on a bigger version of the Boeing 777. Our disembarkation was even further delayed because of an illness being experienced by a passenger at the very front of our section of the aircraft. Masked medics attended the …
Our journey of 7,000 miles to Buenos Aires to rendezvous with the ship that will take us to Cape Horn and beyond began in a sunny Manchester with a change of planes at rainy London Heathrow. The late evening departure gave us a dining and aeroplane watching opportunity from our restaurant table.
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After a lazy morning we were taken to the airport for our flight back to London Heathrow. We stayed in a hotel near the airport having travelled over 10,000 km by air for the once in a lifetime opportunity to sail 600 miles on the navigable section of the River Nile. This was so memorable, …
This morning we arrived at the Giza Plateau just as it opened at 8:00 a.m. to visit the impressive Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx. The Great Pyramid is the only survivor of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Nine kilometres from the river, the pyramids sit on top of the desert-covered West Bank …
Another early start and in the early morning mist we left Beni Suef to drive to the Pyramid of Meidum (Maydum, Maidum) on the edge of the Fayoum Depression to the north of the ship. The pyramid is the ruin of the first true pyramid attempted by the Egyptians. The Step Pyramid at Saqqara was …
After another early start (just after sunrise) we visited the large Egyptian cemetery site at Beni Hassan upriver from Minya on the East Bank. This is a superb location as the fertile plain abruptly ends at the steep desert slope leading to towering escarpment. It is just below the summit where there are 39 tombs belonging …
With an early start, Hermopolis was our first site on the exploration of more of Middle Egypt’s antiquities. This was the site of a capital of the 15th Period (around 1600 BC) and according to legend translates as “8 town” with references to four pairs of snakes and frog gods in a creation myth. This …