September 19th and 20th
On our last cruise day we took a small boat, one of HUNDREDS of them, which took us to an island temple.
We then returned to our Nile cruise boat for lunch and later in the afternoon we boarded a feluka, a Nile sail boat, and went for an hour sail on the Nile. Then returned back to the cruise boat for dinner and the last night aboard.
Below is a cross section of the Aswan dam. It’s impossible to photograph it. There are two dams in the area, one about half as high as the larger which is 111 metres high.
We disembarked this morning, September 20th, and our bags were taken to the hotel and we were put on a short flight to Abu Simbel temple. The entire temple had to be moved because of the Aswan dam being constructed. The Egyptian government and Unesco, along with many donors from other countries contributed to the cost of the move. It’s difficult to imagine how they managed to do this. The temperature was in the 40’s and just ridiculously uncomfortable.
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