Day 9
Aswan
Packed and left a 6 a.m. for Aswan, a lovely town by a lake, that was made by the Aswan dam. Took felucca (sail boat) on this lovely day. It was like a picture seeing all the white sailboats around us. We heard a loud voice singing, “row, row, row, your boat” and I looked over the side and saw an Arab boy, about five years old, in a tiny rubber raft. He was paddling with rubber flaps on his hands, keeping up with our boat. I gave him a tip and he asked where I was from. When I told him, he immediately started singing “I’m back in the saddle again” in a loud voice.
Aswan
Packed and left a 6 a.m. for Aswan, a lovely town by a lake, that was made by the Aswan dam. Took felucca (sail boat) on this lovely day. It was like a picture seeing all the white sailboats around us. We heard a loud voice singing, “row, row, row, your boat” and I looked over the side and saw an Arab boy, about five years old, in a tiny rubber raft. He was paddling with rubber flaps on his hands, keeping up with our boat. I gave him a tip and he asked where I was from. When I told him, he immediately started singing “I’m back in the saddle again” in a loud voice.
King Farouk’s Palace
We stopped at King Farouk’s palace, now a fancy hotel, and had a beer at $10.00. That evening we went to a Nubian village on a nearby island. They are a tribe of very proud, nice looking black people. Ten Nubian men played drums and sang and danced on the ½ hour boat trip on the way to their island. All the houses are built out of stone and they led us to a large one with a huge bedroom where the women served us dinner. Everything was fine until they brought in their stuff and did some high pressure selling. When we got outside it was pitch black so we had a terrible time walking over the rocks and sand to get to the boat.
Day 10
Abu Simble
Away next morning at 4 a.m. to Abu Simble, a three-hour bus trip through the desert. We were escorted by a convoy and found out later that the next day they stopped all tourist trips to this site as it got too dangerous because of terrorists. It was an impressive place with two tremendous temples, flanked by four statues of King Ramses. They were 65 feet high, built in 1200 B.C. Inside were 3 halls, one of them 2000 feet long, containing statues hieroglyphics and carvings in gorgeous colors, and in great shape. These two, huge temples had to be moved to save them when the Aswan dam was built. The world ecologist society paid to have them and Ramses statues taken apart and reassembled a mile away, incredible.
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