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Sunday February 20th, 2005

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(travel diary) Edfu and Aswan arrival

Category: Egypt, 2005
Today we took the 09.40-train from Luxor to Edfu and then shared a taxi to the Horus Temple together with two german guys that we had met on the train. The Horus Temple was built around 3000 years BC and is one of the most well preserved temples in Egypt.

After visiting the temple we walked back to the town. We where thinking about eating something but couldn't find any restaurants. After a while we gave up and took a taxi back to the train station. When we got there, the train to Aswan was standing on the platform, but we where hungry and supposed that the trip would take a while... so we decided to get som food first and take the next train which where leaving at 17:00 (3 hours later).

We searched around in this small isolated part of the town around the train station but couldn't find any restaurant. I guess not much tourists get here. We got some bottled water, potato chips and bread/cookies at a little shop. Short after our so called food-shopping we met an egyptian who had had some troubles with the police... we drank some tea together with him at a small cafe. The cafe was filled with egyptians smoking water pipe while watching some old (70's?) TV-soap.

At about 17:00 the train arrived as promised (on time!) and we headed for Aswan!

A couple of hours later, we arrived. We checked in at Nubian Oasis Hotel. It wasn't as nice as our last hotel but it was ok. It was clean and had a pretty good view. No TV. The price was 30 pounds per night (double room). Pretty good price.
After installing ourselves at the hotel we walked around a bit. We were looking for the internet cafe Aswanet. We had a map but couldn't find it. It probably didn't exist anymore.

We then got some dinner at one of the restaurants floating on the Nile. Great atmosphere and environment! Both Tobias and I ordered "egyptian hamburger plate" and two really good fruit juices each... After a while we wanted to have two more juices each and the waiter got a wide smile on his face and asked us "Whyyyyyyy?!". Haha! First time anyone ordered lots of fresh fruit juice?
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Sunday February 20th, 2005

Africa > Egypt > Edfu

Tobias in the Temple of Horus

Category: Egypt, 2005
Tobias in the Temple of Horus - Tobias looking at the reliefs on the wall. The Horus temple in Edfu is[...]
Tobias looking at the reliefs on the wall.

The Horus temple in Edfu is said to be the best preserved temple in Egypt.
Tags » temple, Tobias
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