Monday February 21st, 2005
Africa > Egypt > Aswan
Today we slept out in the morning. Then we got a small breakfast at a restaurant on the Nile.
Right now we have left our clothes for cleaning and are currently surfing in an internet cafe beside the laundry service. We will see what happens later today. It's still pretty early, the time is now about 11 AM. One goal today is to purchase a rababa (a type of string instrument). I'll try to find some nice drum (tabla) also because we need to practice some before our planned jam session at the train to Cairo.
Tonight at 1 AM we are thinking about going to the Abu Simbel to watch the sunrise at the Abu Simbel temple. Tomorrow 22 feb is one of the occasions every year when the first rays of the sun shines in through the temple and hits the statues of Ramses II, Amun and Ra-Harakhty!
Update: What happened later today
Tobias surfed for 5-6 hours (from morning until evening). He updated his blog-page while I walked around in Aswan photographing panoramas and searching for the Aswan's best musical instruments! I found lots of interesting instruments, but I havn't bought any yet.
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