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Gems River Cruise - Day 7

Susan Wolfson

This is the last full day of our Gems of the Danube river cruise aboard the AmaBella.  Here's our blog from day 6.

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Gems River Cruise Day 6 - Vidin

Susan Wolfson

We continue into Bulgaria today.  Our previous blog, describing the passage through the Iron Gates Gorge is here.   Today we are in Vidin.  AmaWaterways describes Vidin as "an extremely off the beaten path destination" and sure enough, that's what it is.

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Gems River Cruise Day 5 -  Iron Gates

Susan Wolfson

We continue our voyage on the AmaBella down the Danube. Today we sail through the narrow Iron Gates gorge and explore a castle.  Here's our previous day in Belgrade.  

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Gems river cruise - day 3 Vukovar

Susan Wolfson

Our first two days on the AmaBella is described here.  Today , October 12th 2022 we arrive in Croatia.

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Gems River cruise - First days

Susan Wolfson

Today we start our river cruise from Budapest, Hungary to Bucharest, Romania aboard AmaWaterways' AmaBella.    Follow along as we traverse the Balkans and brush up on communism, the Ottomans, eastern orthodox Christianity and some modern wars as well.

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Secrets of Egypt and the Nile - summary (12 of 12)

Susan Wolfson

We've completed our trip with AmaWaterways on their Secrets of Egypt and the Nile cruise tour.  We've had a great time on this truly bucket list destination.  

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Cairo in the rear view mirror (11 of 12)

Susan Wolfson

We left the ancient worlds of Luxor early in the morning for a flight to Cairo.  After landing we spend the rest of the day in Cairo.  But just like that, we fly out late that night, ending our trip.  We started in Amman Jordon and end in Cairo Egypt.  We'll sum everything up in our next post. For now, enjoy our last day in Cairo.

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One last Egyptian Temple (10 of 12)

Susan Wolfson

It's hard to believe but we have one last Egyptian Temple to see on AmaWaterways' Secrets of Egypt and the Nile.  Click here to start at the beginning of our trip.  We're still in Luxor and a short bus ride away is  Dendera Temple, dedicated to the god Hathor.

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Karnac: I'm thinking of a number.... (9 of 12)

Susan Wolfson

Today we are in Luxor, nearing the end of our Secrets of Egypt & the Nile tour with AmaWaterways.  Luxor is a good sized city and home to one of the largest Temples - Karnac.   This temple was built over thousands of years with over 30 pharaohs contributing to the final product.  It contains a sacred lake for priests as well.  This post is part of a series chronically our time AmaWaterways Secrets of Egypt and the Nile.  Here's the start of the series.

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Nubians and Crocodiles (8 of 12)

Susan Wolfson

What do Nubians and Crocodiles have to do with each other?  Today we find out!  We continue our blog series about AmaWaterway's Secrets of Egypt & the Nile.  Click here to go to the start of our blog series.

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