{"id":566,"date":"2014-05-20T16:52:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T14:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/?p=566"},"modified":"2014-07-28T14:33:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T12:33:20","slug":"day-41-aswan-to-luxor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"Day 41 &#8211; Aswan to Luxor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<em>217 km, 11491 km from Cape Town<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><strong>WONDERFUL EGYPT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leaving Aswan we journeyd up the Nile, which is a slow affair because there are so many check points and villages and traffic along the way, but the scenery is lovely and we got to Luxor in the late afternoon<br \/>\nLuxor is a nice little town and we found an empty five star establishment that gave us a good rate and has a spectacular pool and lawn running down to the Nile.<br \/>\nStill feeling grim both Sierra and I are bed-ridden in an attempt to shake it.<br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Tango<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_1033\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_41_20140509_103615_g_img_1419.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1033\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1033\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_41_20140509_103615_g_img_1419-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"On route to Luxor\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_41_20140509_103615_g_img_1419-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_41_20140509_103615_g_img_1419-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_41_20140509_103615_g_img_1419-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_41_20140509_103615_g_img_1419.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> <\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On route to Luxor<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>217 km, 11491 km from Cape Town WONDERFUL EGYPT Leaving Aswan we journeyd up the Nile, which is a slow affair because there are so many check points and villages and traffic along the way, but the scenery is lovely and we got to Luxor in the late afternoon Luxor is a nice little town [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}