This will be the first, but definitely not the last of my posts showing Egypt as we cruised down the River Nile from Aswan to Luxor. The distance between these two cities was, I believe, something like 125 miles. There were several constants as we rode along. We could always see sand. We could always see palm trees. The Nile remained clear and beautiful. There was never very much boat traffic. It was always green along the river.

The first picture is not a very good picture, but it was a view that we saw plenty of times – the beautiful Nile, palm trees and desert sands.

The second picture was also very typical. We saw many areas along the Nile where the water was so low that grass was growing making it look like a green field. In these areas, we frequently saw people fishing, farm animals, people gathering the grass for something – maybe to feed their animals. Other times, the land was barely above the water level and people were farming those lowlands. In these latter cases, it didn’t look much different from this picture.

The third picture was one we also saw quite a few times, and hopefully you remember what it is – another Nubian village. As I said on our first visit to one, they seem to stick to the same colors like yellows and blues. In the case of the Nubians, their villages always seemed to be in back of the vegetation and in the desert sands.