Finally the day arrives. The alarm clock, but long ago I'm awake. A rosette spray to breakfast and ran over the luggage in the car and go to the T4 Barajas Airport. Arriving is impossible not to be stirred by the sight of the huge gap that remained after the bombing Eta December 2006.
I join the rest of the group and most of them know at the time, because I "attached" to the trip to Ecuador career of a group of students from the University of Alcalá de Henares, so I only knew 3 people from a total of about 50, but that is unimportant when the important thing is the destination. Miraculously, the flight leaves on time on time, at 15:50.
The company Egyptair plane is fine, the space between the legs is not to be loose, but more or less you can move.
At 3 pm, we serve the high tea, the "succulent feast typical aircraft, but everything ends up hungry in the stomach.
When flying in an easterly direction, our plane is searching the night, and soon not worth looking out the window as the cab display are flying over the Libyan desert, so I do not see a single light.
Soon the plane began to fall, and now if the background is orange snake that stands out in the dark: the Nile and its fertile strip of about 10 km in which sits almost 100% of the population the country. While
over the town of Luxor, it seems to distinguish one from the complex of temples, but do not know what will. We're here.
4:30 pm After a trip landed at Luxor airport about 21:30 at night.
After taking the luggage finally know who will be our guide Over the next 8 days. His name sounded something like "Yoseri" but when he saw that we would have trouble remembering his name, told us that from that moment he llamásemos "Pepe". Advance the clock one hour and then we left the parking lot where we catch the bus that takes us to the boat through the city of Luxor. Along the way, Pepe gives us the role of the visa to fill it when we finished it with the 34 € it costs. Meanwhile, begin to learn the unique way in driving the Egyptians and with the day to day in the streets of the city.
We reached the banks of the Nile and separate us from the bags, we say that people who is sitting on a park we take them to the boat (will not be trusted?).
To get to our boat, which right now is when we learned that will be the Moon River, we have to cross through the lobby of another 3 boats. The first time you are surprised, but when you go through 10 or 12 boats in the days of the cruise you get used to.
Here, have a habit of "parking" the boat next to each other, because the guide tells us, there is spring enough for all ships to berth. We said that all the Nile, some 180 cruise by typical slice Luxor-Aswan-Luxor and Aswan, so they have the same problems with parking ships with us in Madrid with cars, but are permitted to double or triple row.
If you want to see the Nile as it gets at rush hour, look at this picture satellite. We
direct to the dining room for dinner and then made the distribution of rooms. At this point, we do drop another 25 € for gratuities for the crew for the 4 days we will spend on the boat, so in just over 2 hours that we in Egypt, and we have blown a 50 € and other things. The cabin is not much, but has everything needed for a few days. It seems incredible in so little space as two separate beds fall by half a meter, a desk with a chair a closet and a bathroom with a shower. The important thing is that the bed is comfortable and that throughout our stay we had no problems with cleanliness.
leave without undoing the suitcase and pulled out what is necessary for the night, then boarded the boat deck where all you hear is the whistle of the cars and the call to prayer from the minarets at least 10 of their respective mosques can be seen from the boat.
We stayed until 1:30 rest lying on hammocks whilst watching the Nile and its banks at night.
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