First day sailing

We left Abu Sambel and sailed past the temple which was a wonderful sight in full sun. We cruised past some ruins and eventually stopped at Kasr Ibrim and a Nubian citadel, both had been relocated because of the dam. As you can see from the pic getting to an AGOT (Another grotty old temple) is not as easy as it looks and Ropn is giving Adey a helping hand, well I think he was trying to help, then again he may have been trying to push her off the plank.

It never ceased to amaze me how detailed the temple carvings are, how spectacular the paintings must have been when they were originally done. Colour colour everywhere and in this temple most of the carvings were life size except for Ramases who of course was twice as large - oh what an ego that man had LOL.

At every agot there was a character that stood out from everyone else and the scorpion man got the prize at this stop, of course for a couple of pounds you could take his picture LOL, bribery and corruption is alive and well in Egypt

Sometimes the boys looking after us had just toooooo much time on their hands, but this little array was awaiting us on our return to the boat.

Tomorrow we are off to explore the back streets of Aswan plus Karnak