Sailing up the Nile

we sailed up the Nile in one of those feluccas yesterday. it was a fantastic ride. besides us there are 4 Aussies, 2 Canadians and one Swedish, each group carries a copy of Lonely Planet. lol! no wonder we always end up seeing each other! we spent the afternoon lazied about on the deck (with good shade!), and exchanged our stories with the scams and haggles, and the creative ways we each devised to fend off the ubiquitous touts. one of the fellow traveller did a reverse haggling by asking our captain backsheesh (tipping) for borrowing his knife to cut up salads. the canadian sister didn't know looking straight into Egyptian men's eye is to show interest, so they've been sending the wrong signals and got much unwanted attention. we had good laughs! as we enjoyed this piece of tranquility and engrossed ourselves in the flow of ancient Nile, we found ourselves becoming the photo opportunity by those tourists on the cruise liners. smile!

now we are in Luxor. enjoyed an afternoon of nothingness. with such a great concentration of ancient ruins here, we'll take it slow and try not overwhelm ourselves and getting "pharaonic fatique" :)