Sky Cruise in Egypt

When we were in Egypt this spring, one of the excursions on offer was an early morning balloon flight over the Nile and the West Bank at Luxor. Some people who’d done it were raving about it, but it was too expensive for us.

A few weeks after we came home, an item on the news caught my attention. A hot air balloon in Luxor had collided with some overhead cables and come down. A couple of Brits were in it at the time. No-one was badly injured but all the passengers were taken to hospital.

I bet they felt they’d had a lucky escape. I felt that we’d had one too, even though we hadn’t seriously considered taking the ride.

I took the photo of one of these balloons from the safety of the ground.