We had a very early start, leaving the boat to visit Edfu Temple – with thousands of other people! We all had to go see the temple, get back to the boat, and head of to our next stop.
The temple is impressive, but given the early start and crowds, maybe we should have missed this one (after all, there’s still two more today!)
Anyway, here are photos (at the end are some of the “spiral stairs” which are more “rectangular” but interesting):
Our Nile River boat docked (with many other boats) at sunset and we then visited the nearby Kom Ombo Temple with some impressive carved columns and walls …
For the next part of our Egypt vacation, we transferred to a River Nile cruise boat the MS Chateau Lafayette. Curiously we transferred onto the boat in the evening (before we visited the Philae Temple for the second time), but didn’t leave Aswan till the next lunchtime!
On the River Nile there are many cruise boats and they often dock together – so you might be against the bank making it easy to get off, or you might have to walk through 2 or 3 (or even as many as 6 or 7!) other boats to get between your boat and the dock (you also have to really pay attention since you might not be able to see your boat when you return!). Here are some photos of traveling along the river …
And here are more on another day, including going through a no-longer-in-use lock system, and an active twin lock system, and ending our journey in Luxor:
Here’s some food photos; all the food we had was very good!
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