ken_stern Loc: Yorba Linda, Ca

Out of our hotel and onto the ship leaving Luxor with the eventual destination of Aswin. Habitual Egypt consists of a thin two to three-mile-wide 600+-mile-long lush tropical, ribbon of water bordered on either side by the Sahara Desert. All ship-bound tourists will eventually encounter as we did the "The Nile Pirates". They latch their small boats to the side of the ship and then commence to trade Egyptian-made products for Dollars, Pounds & Euros. Some of the Ladies were happy to see their arrival while the rest of us were always overjoyed to see their departure.

Gebel AL-Silsila
Where laborers once cut stone that was used in the construction of area temples including those of Luxor and Karnak. The quarries were for centuries the main source in Egypt of materials for temple building.
Only shallow draft boats can dock at this location, instead, we landed at Idfu and then a long bumpy tour bus ride in.
Photos 6 to 10 were taken at the Shrine of Horemheb --
The last king of the 18th dynasty also served as the Commander of the Egyptian Army under Tutankhamen

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Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

NMGal Loc: NE NM

Wonder what stories those carvings tell.

J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio

Tdearing Loc: Rockport, TX

Well done.

angler Loc: StHelens England

Good set.

jederick Loc: Northern Utah

I have really enjoyed all your Egyptian posts...great photo's of an interesting, historic culture...all well photographed. Many thanks for sharing!!

Chuckwal Loc: Boynton Beach Florida

wonderful tour
chuck

ken_stern Loc: Yorba Linda, Ca

Thanks for looking & all the kind comments -
For us, over the last 20 or so years this has been a long-awaited and much-debated trip --
Even though we wore the damn masks, got the damn shots & stayed away from all the folks we loved --
COVID sure convinced us that life is so short & that now was the time to travel to Egypt

Have queued up 10 more shots depicting the rest of the boat ride down to Aswan
Will send them along sometime today

Again -- THANKS

Johanna Loc: Albuquerque, NM

Sure reminds me of my trip to Africa and lots of Egypt's sites. Very fond memories of the southern end of Egypt.

campyboy1 Loc: vancouver Washington

I always liked watching National Geographic specials on TV and reading about Egypt in the magazine my dad use to get when I was a kid back in the 60s and 70s.

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

Another fine set of images and a very informative story line. Think I have seen all of the Egypt posts from you and enjoyed them all Ken. Had to be the trip of a life time.

Don

Bubalola Loc: Big Apple, NY

topcat Loc: Alameda, CA

Nice, thanks for the tour