Lesson Learned: Always take the sleeper train....

We just arrived in Aswan in Southern Egypt and are waiting for our hotel room to be ready. We took the overnight train from Cairo....interesting. I think combined, Tam and I have about 4 hours of sleep from last night. Feeling surprisingly good though. The weather is warmer here and we have a good tour of some temples set up for this afternoon. We're in Aswan for a total of 2 nights, but one of them - tonight - doesnt really count because we are leaving to go to Abu Simbel at 3 am. Should be a really interesting tour. After that we're going on a tour of a Nubian village - which our guide assures us (a million percent) will be the best tour we go on in Egypt. Will report back on that one.

Yesterday  - in Cairo - we spent the morning touring a 15th century mosque, an old Coptic church and a synagogue. Then in the afternoon, we saw the much talked about Cairo museum. You would need days to see everything in that place. Fortunately for us, our guide in Cairo was an Egyptologist and he knew the most interesting things to see in the museum and was able to give us really thorough explanations. Tam and I can now tell you differences between statues of living and dead kings and the differences between the statues from the three kingdoms (old, middle and new). A highlight for me was lunch (haha shocking) where we had Egyptian falafels - which are made with fava beans instead of chickpeas. Delicious.

Alright time to get freshened up, grab some food and head to Philae Temple and the surrounding sites.

Location: Aswan Egypt
Currnet Temperature:  Sunny and 16 °C