Elephantine Island Aswan

We took a Felucca ride around Elephantine Island. The back side of the island is goldenly silent. The stillness is only broken by bird calls, and the hum of occasional ferry motor.

We saw the Nubian ruins of Abu, the Mausoleum of Aga Khan, the manicured botanical gardens of Kitchener Island, Aswan's own Valley of the Kings, and plenty of …

My next stop is Aswan but the ferry boat I was going to take is no longer running, so I must take a bus then a train to get there. After a seven hour bus ride to Cairo, I catch a cab to the train station just in time to get on a 12 hour train ride south to Aswan. What a journey and I have no idea what day it is and how I did it all, but I start …

We hadn't had any luck finding any restaurants (yet again), so opted to forgo lunch, something that would become a habit for us in Egypt. Instead of eating, we took the ferry to the middle of the Nile to explore Elephantine Island. The "ferry" was very small, cheap, and not remotely crowded (there were maybe four or five people on our boat). It …

... except for the inscriptions. A flaw developed in the Obelisk however and it was discarded. The next day I headed over to Elephantine Island to check out the Nubian Village and huge grey boulders. There was also the Nilometer at the southern end of the ...

... trip on the river was memorable in respect of when we were traveling in what was once the lower part of the first cataract at Elephantine Island, it is the sheer volume of water, passing between the rocks, it gave one a sense of the power of the river, ...

...  Nubian Museum, before heading back into the town through the tourist markets. In the afternoon, we took a boat tour around Elephantine Island before landing at Nubian beach. Here, I was able to hold a baby Nile crocodile (which was actually quite ...

... hours!  Settled into our hotel mid morning and spent the afternoon and evening touring the Nile on a motor boat around Elephantine Island.  We had dinner with a local Nubian family and goofed around with their kids while enjoying the home ...

... in for a very expensive 50m camel ride). After a short climb you're amongst the tombs and have a great view of Aswan, Elephantine island and the Nile valley stretching off to the south. And there's an even higher point if you're really feeling ...

... to one with air conditioning, no noticeable cockroaches, and a wonderful view of the Nile River. I took a ferry over to Elephantine Island, containing two Bedouin villages. I wandered around the island until I found a nice spot overlooking the Nile ...

... in this country if you don't have the baksheesh to pay, and we were furious. Back in Aswan, Barrett and I took a river crossing to Elephantine Island where we almost immediately met the 'chief' (interesting to learn they rotate this position every ...

... although the haggling required to secure a fair price deadens the pleasant aspects of the experience somewhat. Anyway, we headed straight to Elephantine Island and the ancient ruins of Yebu. After a quick tour of the Aswan musuem (a small and motley ...

... in on the train the next day so I met them and we had some lunch on the rooftop nice. In the after noon we went across to Elephantine island and just relaxed for a few hours. It was nice to stop for a while. Met up with Matt later, and the four of ...

... lunch. After relaxing somewhat, we returned to the nile in the afternoon. During the afternoon, we took a felucca ride around Elephantine island and saw the mausoleum of Agha Khan. During the felucca ride, the two nubian navigators entertained us by ...