Tag: Things to do

Meet-Up at the Valley of the Kings for Live Music

Each week we bring you musicians from around the world to perform live in our virtual destinations. Last week, we had three great musicians with a wonderful audience for more then three hours of live music. This week all our live music events will be held in the Valley of the Kings where you can also participate in an amazing contest with an unbeliveable 1,000 worth of travel with our Sponsor Addison Lee the leading car hire company in London . Now that’s a great treat! To learn more about the contest come and join us during one of our events or simply click here to learn more

Escapist Escapism is playing Monday July 5th at 9PM London time

Twinghost Ronas – Thursday 22th July 2010, 12AM London Time (4PM PDT)

Throughout his eclectic 25-years of playing, recording and producing music, Twinghost Ronas has always been a songwriter first. From the city of brotherly love, TwinGhost cut his musical teeth playing in bands spanning across all genres of music. As a signed artist in the 1980’s and 90’s, TwinGhost has released recordings under A&M and MCA records as well as many small independent labels writing, producing, recording and distributing several records and CD’s world wide of original music. His experience has made him a well seasoned artist In search of the perfect pop song.

Escape Unplugged – Friday 23th July 2010, 9PM London Time (1PM PDT)

Escape Unplugged is as much a music project as it is an avatar. A group of musicians or one musician? Played on ancient instruments or tones generated by a computer? Or both? Or all of the above? The truth is, it doesnt matter. What matters is the intent. The intention is that Escape Unplugged makes music to calm, soothe, inspire, uplift and heal the spirit. It’s music to escape to – not in a negative way, but as something to escape TO, an oasis for the spirit to drift on and swim deep into while the stresses and strains are washed away. It’s music that allows you to pause and breathe deeply for a while. Music for meditation and prayer, or to remind you to simply BE for a moment.

Saturday July 28, 2010 2am London time

Terry Lynn plays on Saturday July 10 ,2010 at 2am London time

Terry Lynn is a musician and songwriter who has been featured on National Public Radio, Clear Channel Radio, and Fox Television in Florida. Terry has won numerous awards for my vocals as well as several songwriting contests and is a published writer, and ASCAP member To listen to some of the songs visit http://www.terrylynnsongs.com http://www.myspace.com/terrylynn
What has been written about Terry on the press: Terry Lynn shows a tremendous innate understanding of the essence of compelling song writing. From her heart and mind, lyrics and melodies flow that evoke the most warmly remembered sensibilities of modern American folk. Her songs are finely crafted but have a raw quality that is delivered with intelligence and captivating emotion

“Terry Lynn is one of those gifted artists that lights up the stage….and when you listen to her velvet voice, all seems right at that moment in time.”

“This artists music paints lucid pictures of human nature for her audience. Songs like We Can Be manage to captivate the most minimal details and get to the bottom of things by singing personal, delicate, and expansive music. Conrads joins enthusiasm with a keen sense of phrasing which is something essential for a vocalistsomething she calls genuine. ” … “her two passions, words and music, would fuse together years later and make her one of the most sincere and influential songwriters today.” Yohanna de la Torre Gulf Coast Time Magazine

Exploring the Virtual Valley of the Kings – Six New Ways to Interact with History

Location: Valley of the Kings, Heritage Key

Date: Late 1920s

Heritage Key’s Valley of the Kings is much easier to reach than the real-world Valley – simply register for a Heritage Key account, follow a few easy steps, and you’ll find yourself shortly in the Travel Hub, where you can select the teleporter to the Valley of the Kings from among a range of choices.

Experienced travelers may want to extend their visit to the Collections Gallery to see the treasures of Tutankhamun up close. You will enjoy the convenience of traveling virtually to the Valley, without the dust and expense of actual travel!

Discover the treasures of the Valley of the Kings all around you. Look, and listen, to the stories the Valley has to tell.

On entering the Valley of the Kings from the Heritage Key Virtual visitors are greeted immediately by a friendly Egyptologist, who is taking a break from excavating, documenting, and cataloguing the stunning artefacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun in order to help visitors find their way to the activities available. Tapping the Egyptologist’s shoulder elicits more information, as well as a map of the area, and a display behind him offers detailed descriptions of the main activities for all in the Valley.

Envision

Travel around the Valley of the Kings as a photographer, capturing images with antique box cameras, and enjoying the tremendous vistas. Several well-known photographers visited the area and captured scenes of the excavation, including Harry Burton. Visitors can find their own inner Burton, and those wearing the travel journal (available at the entry resource tent) will be able to flip back to review their images easily. They may be inspired to add additional photos to Heritage Key’s flickr account.

Uncover

Help Howard Carter, discoverer of the tomb of King Tutankhamun, locate missing pages from his own journal. The pages went missing on the days and in the locations that trace the path of Carter’s discovery. Finding them while wearing the travel journal ensures that you will be able to review the pages later, as well as that receive your finder’s reward from a very grateful Howard Carter.

Decode

The golden walls of King Tutankhamun’s tomb are covered in paintings that trace the path to the afterlife. Take the Decode challenge inside the tomb in order to test your knowledge about this path. This is a difficult challenge, but the rewards, including a peek at the afterlife, and a fantastic Anubis mask wearable, are well worth the effort required. Clues to this challenge are available throughout the region, in the archaeological dig sites especially.

Journey

At the Valley’s far end, a guide waits holding a tethered hot air balloon. Sit in the balloon and enjoy a selection of guided audio tours of the valley as you soar above it. At the compass rose observation station, test your knowledge against several quizzes, and add to your Heritage Key points. Then take the return balloon, on a different path across the Valley for an entirely new perspective.

Discover

Discover the treasures of the Valley of the Kings all around you. Look, and listen, to the stories the Valley has to tell. While some artefacts have already been removed to the museum in Cairo, their shadows remain and you can see where they once stood. Other artefacts are still in place, and can tell you much about Egyptian history, if you look closely.

As well, there are many side adventures, gifts for both ladies and gentlemen tucked into trunks and treasure chests, and opportunities to learn more through audio recordings, displays, and the artefacts and Egyptologists themselves.

To book your immediate trip back in time to the 1920s, and to the Valley of the Kings, where you can experience the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun for yourself, visit Heritage-Key.com now, or if you have a Heritage Key account already and wish to teleport directly to the Valley of the Kings from this web page, click here