Our Night in Aswan

This is the view from our room out over the neighbourhood right next to our hotel. This is the norm, extravagant hotels/palaces next to slums, even though it is generally quite safe the problem is not in getting mugged it is in the kids that beg for money. You can't really blame them, and they are usually really excited when you even just give them a pen. It is unreal.






Well hows that for a sunset? This is from the balcony of our room in Aswan. That thing that was a bonus about Egypt was that if you had a room above ground level you could do your washing and hang it out on the balcony in the afternoon and by the time you went to bed it would would be dry...and this was in the middle of Winter! I hate to think how hot it is in Summer!






This is the same night, we were invited to a real Nubian house to have a traditional meal. This was the start of the end for most people, I had had a slight upset stomach already and everyone else was fine but after this night all bowels let loose. Some people were incapacitated for a few days,lol, though this was lucky seeing as we spent the next few days on a felucca doing nothing.

Oh and see that white concrete box on the right of the picture behind the tables? Guess what was in there? A baby Crocodile! It made the rounds as most people got to hold it and get a picture, I didn't though.


This is the trip back to the hotel. Man those Nubian's can party!

In case you are wondering the Nubian's are different to the Egyptians in that the Egyptians look more Mediterranean and the Nubian's look more African.






And again partying, also note the size of the area this is a felucca and about the size of the area we all slept in while we were traveling on the Nile. Planks were laid across and mattress's were laid and then covered. This is where we slept. Cool huh?