Egypt Day 2 - Aswan

We arrived via our sleeper train in Aswan the next morning. We visited the High Dam which was built with the help of the Russians to control the flooding of the Nile. As a result, it created Lake Nassar, the largest man-made lake in the world.


We took a boat trip over to an island in the middle of the Nile. This little Nubian boy was my new friend who sold me some African bracelets. He was quite the young salesman.


There we visited Temple Philae…


And found evidence that the Pharoahs were the first “Burger” Kings.


You can tell from the columns that there was a lot of Greek influence at the time it was built. Reminded us of Athens.


Later in the afternoon, we took another sailboat on the Nile, and this was our young captain. You can see the local McDonald’s in the background. Christianity needs to be like McDonald’s… reaching to every possible place on earth. =)


This was our cruise ship for the next 3 days: The SemiRamis II


We sailed over to the Aswan Botanical Gardens.



It was a nice cool escape from the desert heat.



Marty started monkeying around.


We took a dip in the Nile.


We did the Titanic pose on the way back.


Nighttime was especially nice (and cool) on the top deck of our cruise ship. Here’s a picture of Aswan by nightfall.