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An Egypt-ionally Good Time!

Before coming on this trip we sat down and watched several YouTube videos about how to prepare for Egypt.  After watching all of them.....we weren't sure we still wanted to go to Egypt anymore!  Yikes!  But we are now safely back home and can (honestly) say this trip definitely turned out better than we expected.  We officially survived 12-days in Egypt!

We would like to send a final shoutout to our great Trafalgar tour group!  You never know exactly what kind of personalities you're going to be stuck with on these group tours.  Thankfully, this group rocked (even the Aussies!).....haha!

  

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