Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Day 3: Aswan and Nubian Village

Arriving in Aswan, we checked in a very fancy hotel w/nice showers and a pool! Air conditioning was good, room was pretty big, washroom actually had more than 2 towels!!! Also did my first load of laundry :)

In the afternoon, we went on a felucca ride on the Nile around Aswan... Nothing special but was very relaxing!

Then at nite, we went to a Nubian village for dinner. It's a very nice experience and got to try some more local food, as well as see sort of how the Nubians lived. Even thought I found out later that the house we went to was a 'model home' (ie. not where the family who cooked us the dinner actually lived), we still saw their kids having fun, and also what a Nubian house looked like.

Also saw the 1st sunset and stars at the courtyard of the Nubian house. They are very pretty as always. On day I'll learn how to pick out the constellations!


New food:
Kofta = Beef Sausage, potato fries, rice + tomato sauce

Tomolo: waking up at 3am to go to Abu Simbel.

1 comment:

Maddi.L said...

Wow! That is an amazing photo of the sunset. That must be amazing to be there! Wish I was there with you!