aswan

Hey all, here's a couple photos from our trip to Aswan. It was pretty nice but, to be honest, not the coolest place we've been. The place is beautiful, but the harassment and ripping off is the highest we've seen anywhere. In Cairo you haggle down to half price, here it seems like you haggle down to one fifth. At one point I ended up dragging a guy down the street as he was trying to pull me back into his shop...

Nonetheless, the water's great, the climate's good, and it made a good starting point for Lorna's felucca trip. Oh, and we met a very sweet family who had fun henna-ing lorna's arm.

Philae Temple

Nubian village on Elephantine Island

henna artists

view from Aswan Dam on the Nile