Our last day on the Nile and our last Temple.
Can you tell that our brains are about to explode with all the information that they are trying to download? I really admire how these university trained egyptologists, like Caroline, keep all the facts straight in their heads.They have so much enthusiasm for their subject.
Edfu Temple
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معبد ادفو
Everyone in the group is worn out at this point and I think it is obvious by how far we are lagging behind the eternally enthusiastic Caroline.
Yalla, yalla!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Edfu
Above is the God Horus giving a pharaoh enteral life with the Anhk.
And here is Horus again.
And we are back to the ship for the last leg back to Luxor.
We go up to the top deck to wait to go through the Esna lock.
I need to talk about the Niles pollution at some point so I'll slip it in here. Although the Nile looks pristine in my photos along the banks are billions of plastic drink bottles. Sometimes they are hidden by reeds, but when there is a break in the reeds they are really obvious. I have a terrible feeling that many of these bottles are coming off the cruise ships. Whenever we are given a bottle of water on a tour, and we have drunk our weight in water, I wonder where the empty bottle will eventually end up.
Floating down to the Med.
I guess the Egyptians don't have he infrastructure or resources to do any recycling and it will all float away eventually to become someone else's problem.
They are there again, the 'vultures' in boats, throwing things up to the decks and people throwing them back and then landing things in the water.
The kids on the roof goodness!
Then below, we go up again in the lock, photo from our cabin. With Arabic graffiti.
Then its farewell drinks in the lounge.
And goodbye to our crew.
And a big thank you to the program directors and chef Alex.
Finally its back to Luxor, sailing past Luxor Temple again.
Finally, goodbye to the magnificent River Nile.
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