Sara Hotel Aswan

... something thaht no-one should ever miss!! Egypt itself is quite beautiful, the people are frindly and so far we seem to have avoided most of the hassling that they saw can happen here. I was not that excited about coming to Egypt when we started this adventure in March, but now that I am here (and travelling by ourselves) I really feel like this is right up there with Mali and Namibia as my fav places on the African continent. Well, that's it for now, so hope that this finds you well!! Cheers Ben

... wine and played pass the pigs. It went on for awhile and Mohammed joined us mid game and caught up pretty quickly. Gabriel won, I came second and the rest followed. Good fun.

Bedtime was just after 11pm – just as we are starting to get in the party mood and stay up later, we find it is our last night. We were all a little sad with this. However we were also very fortunate they we chose this method to cruise the nile - very expensive but well worth the cost in everyway.

... they started getting more intense and wanting more photos and kissing my hand and kissing me on the cheek and putting their arm around me so i started to get uncomfortable so i said no to them and left but i remembered they knew my room number and i was alone in a room with a bad door. I heard a knock on the door and it was Shehadie and he said something which sounded like 'amil' but turned out he was asking for my email and i just said no and said good bye. I got worried that i'd given ...

... busy day.
First up was a short sail on the Nile River on board a felucca boat. Feluccas are traditional sail boats and are a relaxing way to do a bit of site seeing from the Nile.
We spent about 3 hours on the felucca and it was nice but there isn't anything to do on board. So we just chilled out and ate the light lunch provided. We were actually meant to spend 2 days on the feluccas sailing down the Nile but during the meeting on the first night, Mina, our tour leader ...

... at least another hour (apparently the crew of the boat considered being on the boat sailing) we crossed the Nile and awaited our taxi. We had paid 150 pounds each and all we had done was sail for three hours. None of us were happy.
After waiting more than an hour on the banks of the river our taxi finally arrived and shuttled us to Kom Ombo Temple. The Argentinian just wanting a relaxing time said he would wait and watch the bags. Before the rest of us where even in the ...

... not enough wind
and they need to tug us along. Luckily we made it to Kitchener's Island
where there its all basically a botanical garden. We wander along
looking at familiar and unfamilar plants, have a sit by the nile and
rest and play "spot the kitteh" as there is cats lazing in the gardens,
at the cafeteria...cute little kittehs that look flea ridden by oh so
cute! Dan is brave and pats one and comes out ...

... omst important rule while traveling.
That night we went to the nubian village and had a home cooked dinner. It was interesting the way the mud houses are set up to allow for maximum coolness. All though coolness is a relative term it was 120 degrees during the day and dry dry dry heat so it can be slightly hard to breath. After the villiage we went back to the hotel at 11pm only to have our alarm go off at 2:45am
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Wednesday July 1st ...

... dinner and then to everyone's surprise Ghandi had bought a cake along for Bobo's birthday. We all sung and then par took in the cake and it was good, Egyptian cake is really good!

So after everyone was full of food and soft drink we wandered up to the camp fire which was already going with the other felucca people. The Nubian sailors were all singing local Nubian songs and then Ghandi got us all up and dancing, it was sooo much fun we were jumping around and doing all these ...

... must have been 20 or so no’s to the question of "Do you want to old it?", he finally reassured us that it was young enough that it hadn’t developed its more dangerous teeth yet. I finally was handed the adolescent reptile and he immediately started thrashing around. I don’t think he liked me. Finally Katie got up the courage to hold him as well. I must say holding a croc is something I never thought I would do.

We then ...