Egypt update

Day 3 Cairo to Aswan

This was the first overnight bus journey that we would be making this trip. We were given a full description of what the journey would be like and we were told that after the first 180km there would be a really bumpy ride for the next 60km. I took my travel sickness pills just in case but turns out I slept right through it. Egypt is full of 'check points', there are constantly these things that resemble border crossings but are even stricter than the free movement allowed within Europe despite the fact that you're not actually crossing any country borders. We stopped every 3 or so hours for toilet breaks and refreshments. When we all woke up at about 10am we had packed lunch style breakfasts on board the bus which was nice and then we carried on driving until about 1pm when we got to Aswan. As soon as we got to Aswan we checked into the boat and went straight for lunch which was another buffet style thing but was really quite alright. I'm now trying to think of what we did after that as I am writing retrospectively... I think we then had about 1 hour before we went to Aswan Dam and Philae temple. We stopped at the dam and had a thorough explanation about it and it's workings etc. (oh and it's so much hotter down south, it's not too far from the Sudanese border). It's really huge. Then we went on to the Philae Temple which was one of the temples that was in the way when they flooded the area to build the dam. It is now located on it's own island sitting in the middle of the Nile. We got a boat over to there and explored that temple which was beautifully located. After that we came back to the boat and dropped off some of our stuff before heading out on another boat down the Nile to see a Nubian village (Nubian are like the tribes people who live in the area). We walked through their village and had some drinks in one of their houses. Some people also went for a swim in the Nile but it didn't appeal to me. When we got back to the boat we had dinner again  - on the boat, dinner consists of a 4 course meal, soup, starter, main, desert! After that we had some of the Nubian tribes people come in to do a show in the bar area which consisted of traditional African singing and dancing. It was amazing, they got all of us involved and it was a really fun night. Bed time. BYE. x