Vacation

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!

We took a boat trip from Aswan to see the Philae Temple, another that had to be moved due to flooding after the Aswan Dam was built.

We also returned in the evening for a “light and sound show” (which I am not sure was worth the time; it was largely a “conversation” between the river and the gods, with lighting just illuminating whoever was speaking) …