Nubian Village Aswan

We had to get up and check-out early for our flight to Abu Simbel. It is a complex of two tombs built by Ramses II. One is for his wife Nefertari and the big one is for him. We only had an hour and a half to tour, because we had a return flight scheduled. We met our representative and tour guide at the airport. This one thing I really enjoy about …

Day 3: Aswan....Overnight train to Aswan, is a good cheap way to get there...about 14 hours in a sleeper cabin which i had to myself. Old, a little dingy, disgusting bathrooms and terrible airflow (smoking is permitted everywhere!) i suggest if you have the cash, FLY! the meals were a sorry excuse for food, service was terrible and of course a TIP …

... 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 island. After this I headed ...

... to take me as a target for their spitting competitions, so I tend to give them a wide berth.    We visited the Nubian village school, where we gave the children some pens, next time we will give pencils, as they would probably be more useful ...

... docile), and the group climbed up the sand dunes for a view over Aswan. After the sun had gone down we visited a traditional Nubian village on the west bank of the Nile. We were intoduced to a Nubian family who prepared food for us and ...

... leg of the trip to arrive at Aswan.  Around 4PM Diana and I took a boat ride on the Nile River.  We stopped at a Nubian village.  Here we were able to visit an actual Nubian home.  Diana even had one lady do some Henna art work on ...

... has their own itinerary, but in general you are with the same 5-6 people.  Today was High Dam, Phillae Temple, and (optional) Nubian village.  I was not going to do the Nubian village and instead go to the Nubian Museum, but Anne, a French ...

... to dock right up at Kom Ombo.  Travis was slightly disappointed about this.  Dinner was spilled, so Ziggy went into a Nubian village to get us some fried chicken.  While waiting pretty much everyone took a nap, and when he came back it ...

... and which tablets were replicas or broken originals glued anywhere pleasing to the eye. After a quick stop in the neighbouring Nubian village - a place with little going for it except narrow, littered laneways, goats in the streets and mummified ...

... north which look more Arabic. One day, we took a felluca (sailing boat with a lateen sail) on the Nile and visited a Nubian village, which made us feel like we were in a National Geographic documentary about an African village. It was a very interesting ...

... speak their own tongue and are prohibited from marrying outside of the Nubian race. On a mini speedboat, we cruised to a local Nubian village where the lady prepared a nice soup with pilaf, potatoes, canned vegetables, a couple of dried out meat sausage ...

... designed the monstrosity of the hotel tower should be punished for polluting this beautiful island. Our night concluded with dinner in the Nubian village of Siou on Elephantine.  We ate as guess of a Nubian family where the male head of the ...