Here we are on the felucca, once we arrived back from Abu Simbel we went straight to the reception and picked up our bags and walked to the Nile just behind the hotel and voila we were on the boat and setting off, and by this time really quite hungry as we had had a 3am wake-up call that morning to get ready to leave for Abu Simbel (did I already say that?)Those boat are the same as the one we are on, and we have about 15 people on board!
Here is a good mix of the old and the new. On the right is the New Cataract Palace and the one on the left is the old Palace and by Palace I mean it used to be the winter accommodation for the Egyptian royal familyWe stayed in the new section on the other side of the building. Can't really say much about the grounds as well only spent one night there and when we were not sleeping we were either just leaving or just arriving.
The old palace was a beautiful building though
It's a hard life on holiday and yes this is pretty much what we did during the time we spent on the felucca.
Our first day on the felucca was a half day, the next a full day and the last day we left at about 7 or 8 in the morning.
This picture pretty much shows you what is is like in Egypt, lush along the Nile and desert beyond. Though once the first dam was built in 1899/1902 (The Aswan) the water from the Nile could be saved and agriculture could develop, bringing with it irrigation and farming.The second dam was built in 1959 with the help of the Soviet Union as Britain who helped build the first one were not willing to but money forward to build a second dam, of course the Russians didn't ask for much in return just a sh*t load of gold.
Well here is the happy campers. as you see where we are sat is where we slept, and yes there is a lack of toilets, that was an adventure in itself. There was no way a person could hold on for two days!!
All I will say about this is that the experience was highly damaging and I don't mean mentally, cutey grass in Egypt...who knew????
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