Today we flew to Aswan and checked into our cruise ship. Then we took a felucca ride around the Nile. Our guide was a Nubian man named Nasser. He turned out to be one of my favorite people I met on our trip, and the felucca ride was one of the best experiences we had. We sailed past Nubian villages and rock formations. This part of Egypt has beautiful, lush green trees. The sunset was incredible. Nassar told us a little about Aswan and the boat he worked on. We got off his boat and rode camels through part of the desert, to a hilly area where we could overlook the city and the Nile. Nasser picked us up and sailed us back to the cruise ship. We drank tea and soaked in the beauty of upper Egypt. At one point we had no wind, so he asked two of us to man the steering board thingamajig while he rowed. I'm not gifted in felucca sailing.
I loved it all.
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