i freaked out a little bit thinking we were going to get in trouble
Emily you won't want me to show you this
today we are traveling by train 11 and a half hours overnight all the way from Cairo to Luxor
but it's not any train it's a first-class sleeper train so we're super excited but
we're really sad because it means we have to leave this amazing view
so we actually booked our tickets a couple of days ago because we weren't
too sure how it would go booking the day that we were actually leaving
we ended up going with the company ERNST which is here at the Giza station
on the Watania sleeping train so we're going first class from here all the way down to Luxor
which means we should get fed we should have charging ports and we should be able to sleep
pretty well we've got about an hour to kill before our train comes so i reckon we'll get some snacks
so we've been kind of scared about Egypt having a camera with a microphone because we've heard
that they really don't like it an official looking guard just walked up to us and i freaked
out a little bit thinking we were going to get in trouble but he just checked our ticket and
walked us into this cafe which is weird as well but at least we didn't get in trouble
so now we're here waiting for the train to come it's a nice separate part and there's air
conditioning and we're getting some cool drinks so not bad not a bad place to wait for the train
so we've just gotten on board and everything's been super easy so
far everyone's been really nice and helpful
that was our lovely train attendant he just came in to put our little tray table thing down because
we get dinner in 10 minutes so i'll quickly show you through there's not that much to show
it's a cabin with two beds but it's really nice it's quite tight the bed seems nice
there's a gorgeous little blanket on it two big floppy pillows space for both of our bags
there's a little curtain area which hides a coat hanger there's also like a sink with a
little basin so we can brush our teeth in here and wash our hands also a mirror and an outlet
just behind the camera and all of these buttons so we can change the lights the temperature control
it's pretty cold in here already so i've turned it down one notch and that's about it so this is
what you get for 80 US dollars a night per person there is no private bathroom unfortunately that's
shared ones for each carriage but they're just down the way so not bad off to find the toilet
toilet seems really good i'm pretty impressed it's a full western toilet
we've got hand towels we got soap we got a sink toilet paper is always good too
it's nice i'm impressed Emily you won't want me to show you this but i will
step on the pedal
so easy
we've already got our dinner which i'm super excited for because i'm hungry
it looks like aeroplane food so we have some veggies some rice
oh that smells so good it's like a beef stew or something we think we also get
breakfast as well but we're not 100% sure so i guess we'll find out in the morning
it seems we have to be up at five in the morning we're pretty much
going to bed now we've just brushed our teeth in our little sink
and that's it hopefully we get rocked to sleep tonight by the soothing train but who knows
good morning
i slept pretty well considering i think the bed was a little bit harder than i would have
liked but i still went to sleep pretty quickly and slept the whole way through so not bad at
all we haven't even got a knock on the door yet by the guy who's going to wake us up for
breakfast so we're up earlier than expected and we get an awesome view of Egypt going by
so we just got our breakfast delivered and it looks like it's just a bunch of different
pastries breads some cheese and jam mango juice and coffee's on the way
hotel organized the transfer for us so we're just following a guy
to a car and we're going all the way to the hotel
you are welcome to look sir i wish you can do your whole day at the best enjoy
so we're all checked into our amazing hotel we're up on the rooftop because
we're here way too early to get a room just done something we were hoping we'd
be able to do and we're booked onto a four night five-star luxury Nile cruise yes
the train was really good train was great yeah slept well i slept the best i've ever slept on
a train and we've done a lot of trains like through Thailand and Vietnam and i think that
that was the best i've ever said plus it was the best service we've ever had definitely the
best service i'd say the best i slept as well it's just nice having a door that locked yeah
like there was no worrying during the night that someone would come in and steal your bag