Tuesday February 22nd, 2005
Africa > Egypt > Aswan
We didn't go to Abu Simbel early this morning. All buses were full. We walked around in Aswan and asked travel agents but this special day everything was full. Maybe it was good.. because I guess that the temple area was packed with tens of thousands of people and we would have seen the sun on TV-screens.
Instead, we booked our Abu Simbel-tour for tomorrow and today we booked a felucca-ride around the Aswan area.
Yep, today we went on a felucca ride (a small typical egyptian sailboat). The captain on our litte boat called himself "the Boss". He was heavily influenced by Bob Marley and sang "Alouette, smoking cigarette".
We checked out the islands in the area. First stop was Kitcheners Island. It's a small island which was transformed into a garden by an englishman some long time ago. A person interested in plants and butterflies would have loved it here.
Then, we continued to Elephantine Island. A bigger island with colorful nubian houses and a small museum.
After this we had planned to visit Tombs of the Nobles but time ran faster than our felucca so we had to skip that one. After this we floated around on the Nile in the sunset.
In the evening Tobias and I bought one Rababa each (string instrument with three strings). I also bought a tabla drum and Tobbe got an oud (guitar-style instrument).
![Sunset sailing on the Nile - On the Nile. This was the ending of our check-all-the-islands-in-Aswan-day.[...]](/images/entries/en/egypt2005_sunset-sailing-on-the-nile-(49).jpg "Show fullsize (opens new window)")
