am Reiseverlauf selbst hat sich nichts geändert. Lediglich die Ziele vor Ort und während der Fahrt habe ich jetzt etwas genauer zusammengestellt. 3. Oktober Ankunft und Las Vegas Calico: Calico Ghost Town Las Vegas: Hard Rock Cafe 4. Oktober Las Vegas Las Vegas: Stratosphere Tower, Strip, Fremont Street, Hard Rock Hotel 5. Oktober Bryce Canyon […]
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A few selected travel experiences where photography was also involved
Coyote Buttes (The Wave)
YES! We got the permit. The lottery picked us. Out of 10 people a day we are along with them. We are allowed to see the Wave. Lottery run date: July 1, 2010 Congratulations, Ralf Karpa! You were selected in our lottery application process for a Coyote Buttes North permit. You have until Noon MDT […]
Der Plan
Vom 3. bis 25. Oktober 2010 ist eine South-West USA Tour geplant. So sollte die Tour aussehen: insgesamt ca. 4.900 km = 3050 mi Sehenswürdigkeiten auf der Strecke Calico Ghost Town Las Vegas St George Bryce Canyon Grand Staircase Escalante (Übersicht) Canyonlands / Dead Horse Point Arches Nationalpark Cisco Million Dollar Highway (Silverton, CO) Mesa […]
Egypt 2008
I changed the way to store pictures from internal WordPress mode to use SmugMug. Link to the Gallery is given below. Short Appetizer…
Sunday, 26th October 2008
Last night, the good man at the front desk asked if I wanted to be woken up. I said I wanted to use the cell phone as an alarm clock, but after some back and forth, I agreed. What luck. During the night, the phone changed from daylight saving time to winter time. When the […]
Saturday, 25th October 2008
So, last day today. Tomorrow at 4:30 the driver comes to the airport Hurghada. Then it goes back; to where it is cold and rainy. At 9 o’clock with the shuttle still to the in-house beach at the Red Sea. Quite nice, but Cuxhaven offers more. The water is far away because of the tide […]
Friday, 24th October 2008
It’s a great facility here at the Steigenberger Golf Resort Hotel. However, not quite my cup of tea. New and old have never been. Food is of course top class and even the spaghetti is on the plate and not next to it. Towards afternoon a short tour to downtown El Gouna. Here everything really […]
Thursday, 23rd October 2008
So, the reason for the trip is reached…. Now I can join in with the 50-year-olds. Today we go in convoy from Luxor to El Gouna. At 8 o’clock we start. Mohammed says goodbye and hands us over to two drivers. One of them speaks a little English, the other apparently not at all. Around […]
Wednesday, 22nd October 2008
Last day in Luxor. Very early on deck you can see the balloons rising over the Valley of the Kings on the east bank. Some make their rounds all the way over Luxor. Behind the MS Nile Style lies the Sudan. Built about 1850 (says Mohammed) and still in service. Beautiful wooden superstructure. Agatha Christie […]
Tuesday, 21st October 2008
At shortly before six we have to get up. In the night – around four – we have left Aswan and are on the way down the Nile in the direction of Luxor. Finally this stupid ship on the side left behind us. Around seven o’clock we are supposed to visit the temple in Kom […]