Amazing Egypt... Part 1

Wow! I'm gonna say, Egypt is the highlight of the trip I think, as I thought it would be. Might be loud and gross at times, but it really is a rather amazing place to see.


Where was I last? Ah yes, just leaving Aswan....

Anyway, after walking around Aswan, Me and Bill managed to find food and even so far as going to a goverment bakery that was hot and running! For a little "Backsheesh" a word we now love to joke about, we got some more bread. After a couple hours we met our hostel friend Mel at her hotel and waited around to be picked up. Took awhile, but got on the Felluca sail boat. Not a huge boat, but nice and cozy. But seeing as everything is set on Egyptian Standard time, it was around 3:30 before we set off. Sailing around for a couple hours we then picked up more people. Course at 7 people, and 2 crew we couldn't fit much more, but we then picked up 5 more people! Everyone on the boat already just accepted that they were getting on, but those new 5 people were rather pissed off! Anyway, after they accepted their fate they boarded.

We then sailed till about 9 or so, an hour after we should have, we got to a landing spot and moored that night. One of our crew was going on shore to get more supplies and some of us asked to come along. Although he looked somewhat confused by this, he let us come along anyway. Walking to the local town by Full moonlight was very fun. With all the sand and palm trees about and quant farms. Our captian then went and knocked on the door of a house which would fit better in a historic movie about Romans than the 21st century.

An old woman then answered the door dressed in black and invited us in. We were then lead to what I think was the bedroom and sat down. Tea was brought out. Our Captian asked us what we wanted from the store and left us. Forantly for us, someone in our shore party knew Arabic well enough to talk to the Mother, daughter and Son. We asked some questions and generally relaxed. It was just so neat to see such a setup.

All of us spent I'd say almost an hour on shore and I loved it the whole time. Everyone else seemed to feel the same. Later that night we had a nice camp fire party till into the wee morning..........

Stay tunned for part 2!