Today was one of the longest days of the trip so far. We have officially been here a week and now in the next 4 days we’ll be in 3 different hotel stays. So moving your luggage around and around gets a little bit tiresome.
We really enjoyed the boat ride down the Nile. If you’ve seen any of the ships that do the same thing on the Mississippi, then you’ll know the size ship we were one. I think it held 73 people or so. A nice size place for us and it was certainly good to come back to your stuff already unpacked after a long hot day.
We left early this morning to see the Aswan Dam. It was built in the 1930’s as a way to capture the power of the Nile and to regulate the flooding of the Nile. It was huge and impressive.
Our flight to Abu-Simbel was short--only 40 minutes. It seemed that only people who were going to the Monument there were on the plane. I saw many of the same faces on the return flight that I had seen this morning on the inital flight.
Abu-Simbel is the monument that most of us have seen on the cover of our High School history books. It was moved about 200m when the Aswan Dam was built (it’s original site is now under water). It was hot there--probably close to 100’ and we quickly melted under the sun.
Our return flight to Cairo made a stop in Aswan but we didn’t have to get back off the plane. We arrived in Cairo around 4:00. To the hotel for a nice HOT shower and then some supper and another lecture on Alexandria where we are heading today.
Blogger is being particular over here. I can’t seem to upload photos--so please forgive the text only blog. I’m trying--but it ain’t going. End day.
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Kaelynn likes the pyramids and wants to see a camel. She says "HI!!! JIM!!!!"
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