Your week or weekend hillwalks (wherever you are).

Hello,

I had to cancel my message about my hillwalk in Egypt on Gebel El Korn because of some problem with the photobucket link. Sorry about that.

Here is a copy of the message :

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Hello !

Annie, merci beaucoup for your la-*test*-('") pictures !!! They are great.

I am posting here all the photos of my hillwalk in Luxor, in Egypt, three weeks ago.

I stayed on the West Bank of the Nile and I walked from my hotel along the road leading the famous Valleys of Kings and Queens. I passed the Collossi of Memnon and then crossed the village of El Gurna. I walked up the road of Deir El Medineh (Valley of the Craftmen) and then I started to climb the mountain named Gebel El Korn.

This mountain is really famous as it overlooks all the most famous pharoahs tombs located in the Valley of Kings (Wadi El Molouk) and the Valley of Queens (Wadi El Malikat). The different valleys at the base of the hill are pierced by hundreds of royal tombs that people come to visit.

I reached the top of Gebel El Korn and then walked the whole ridge up to the huge desert plateau. On the other side of the massif I started to go down and managed to walk on a path straight into the cliff. There was only one slightly difficult and narrow passage in the cliff to go down.

I climbed down the rest of the cliff in a very rocky slope where I found lots of fantastic stones and fossiles. I brought back some of them to France.

I came back to the main road walking along the famous Temple of Medinet Habou at the edge of some beautiful gardens.

The walk took me about 6 hours and the temperature was about 30�C... but on the ridge and on the plateau there was a great cool breeze.

Greetings from France.

Lionel

To watch all my pictures, click on the following link :

http://www.randos-montblanc.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=91

Went for a walk yesterday up Cwm Caerfanell in the Brecon Beacons. Started from the bottom car park at Torpantau then headed up the steep climb of Gwar y Gigfran (knew I shouldn't have had that last vodka in the pub the night before

) then dropped down to visit the memorial to the Canadian airmen who crashed their Wellington bomber here during WW2.... the wreckage of the plane is still there.
Then we headed around the ridge to Craig y Fan Las and headed back down Craig y Fan Ddu. Thankfully this week there was no rain, hail or snow to contend with...we actually had blue skies and sunshine every now and then

All the waterfalls were looking full after all the rain we've had

Great walk....photos on the link below for those interested

http://s25.photobucket.com/albums/c92/anni...ell%20Dec%2006/?

Great pics Annie, like the one of the bush with the berries on it next to the waterfall. Amazing that wreckage of the aircraft still there...and folk haven't been taking pieces as mementos

Lovely photos Annie

- we must try to get out to the Beacons sometime - after all, we're not that far away!

Lionel - I can't seem to see your photos?

Lovely photos, Annie. And that spooky green tree at the end!

Lionel, all I get is a link to the French walking Forum, and your post in French, no pictures.

Thanks folks

Mady...there is quite a bit of the wreckage still there amazingly...hopefully it will stay there too...it's one of my favourite places

Puffin...look forward to seeing you over here...give me a yell and I'll give you the guided tour

Rig - loved that tree all covered in moss

great pics annie i just saw tryfan pics ,tryfan lookes awesome and the memorial is a beautiful area i was last up there in the winter last year with light snow and mist i think that the most i not sure of the right words but it was the most peaceful,tranquil and beautiful time i have eve been up there even if i did slip in snow wile taking photo of memorial lol.

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Lionel, all I get is a link to the French walking Forum, and your post in French, no pictures

Hello again !

Sorry for the missing link but I am new to photobucket and I don't know how to share my pictures.

I am posting the above link but I don't know if it's going to work :

http://s131.photobucket.com/albums/p282/Ch...el%20el%20Korn/

Please, let me know if you can see my pictures. Waiting for feedback. Thanks in advance.

Lionel

no sorry lionel.i dont know how to do photos either or i would have posted mine

QUOTE (alun @ December 19, 2006 09:14 pm)

no sorry lionel.i dont know how to do photos either or i would have posted mine

Hi Alun,

I tried to post a link for everyone to see my pictures but I don't know if it's going to work. Could you check if my link works ? Thanks,

Greetings from France,

Lionel

Lionel

The link is your log in page therefore we can't see the photos. Link from the album instead.

Looking forward to seeing the pictures.

Jacqui

yea i was just going to say tha.ive just checked annie page and urs has login with password

QUOTE (jacqui @ December 19, 2006 09:20 pm)

Lionel

The link is your log in page therefore we can't see the photos. Link from the album instead.

Looking forward to seeing the pictures.

Jacqui

Hi Jacqui !

The problem is I can't find the album link !!!!

Sorry !

Let me think how I use my photobucket....

Once you log in and have your photos uploaded to a album, open the album (so you can see all the thumbnails) then just use the link in the tool bar at the top and it should work.

Fingers crossed!

Jacqui

EDIT: just looked at the url you posted and it looks right. Mmmmmm

This is another link to try :

http://s131.photobucket.com/albums/p282/Chebl1962/

http://s131.photobucket.com/albums/p282/Ch...el%20el%20Korn/