Our last day on the Nile started at a normal time. After breakfast after a night's sleep in 2 falucas assemble the boat typical of Egypt.
To begin browsing, display the large sail that makes us to move.
seems rush hour, the river is full of small sailboats like ours, as well as boats similar to the first day we used to cross from one bank of the Nile to the front for visit the temples of Luxor and Karnak.
As we sailed toward the Nubian Village, we go singing and dancing traditional themes Nubian Village. When finished, pick up the candles and we take a sample of products "craft" made by the Nubians. These products were wooden figures, necklaces of various materials, letter openers, etc. I think no one bought anything, so after 5 minutes was one of the motor boats that were near where they had stopped our falucas and change the new boat in the middle of the Nile in plan approach. This is not loved it, because what the agency was offered a visit to the Nubian village in Felucca, but it was not plan to waste time arguing with the guide and the falucas also saw that another group of tourists are did the same, and once we got to the Nubian village all vessels had were like ours, no trace of any felucca.
Well, now in the new boat, sail gently between many small islands, islands with hotels and villas which were located just off towards the Aswan Nubian Village.
Throughout the tour, several children approached us in small boats made by themselves chanting Cañí Spain's own, as Porompompero, the macarena and other issues of style so we gave a few euros, pens, candy, etc..
do not know if I've mentioned before, but it should not give money to children, because this way it encourages begging, since many parents use their children to get extra income, so it is best that they bear candy, pens or anything else you can think of that can leverage the children themselves, but you will see that you insist that they bear euros.
After a very pleasant and quiet, the boat stops at the foot of the dunes of the desert, where there are several posts in the sand where they sell more souvenirs typical of the Nubian Village.
From here, there is the possibility of making the last 500 meters to the Nubian Village by camel, I do not remember the price, because at this stage of the Egyptian diet journey had upset my stomach a little would not have any problem with one of the boats of the camel. Pepe
While the ride for hire who will go on the camel, we approached several vendors offering virtually the same products that we had tried to sell on the felucca.
One of the vendors speak some English, and after understanding my refusal to buy one of the huge selling machetes, again the topic of conversation was another major topic English soccer. For a while we lived there talking about how the Madrid-Barca, the fitness of Raul at that time, the possible signing of Cristiano Ronaldo by the Madrid and various topics related to soccer, which in a few minutes we got almost to the day in footballing matters.
When the caravan started going by land, we were not camels, we were almost half the ship sailed the same distance as the rest made between the dunes to a small pier at the foot of the Nubian Village. After we
with the rest of the group, the guide tells the story of the Nubians, how they drove to build the Aswan Dam and how they have relocated into the other bank of the Nile, about how hard life is in the area of \u200b\u200bEgypt and of poverty in which the majority.
Then we stroll through the village and visit a typical Nubian house made of mud and straw and painted with very bright colors. Surprised to see houses as poor but with the dish on the roof.
In another house, we get to try several traditional products, such as molasses sugar, a special bread and a Shisha (water pipe). We are also a few tattoos gena. You take a role where you choose from among the Egyptian symbols which some women want and what you do in a flash. Be careful because it stains a lot until it dries and several of the group had made them react and that part of the arm sore and swollen for several days.
While we are getting tattoos, a Nubian girl brings two baby crocodiles, the pet should be typical for the ease and little fear with which he collected animal. I ask if I can catch it and after achuchármelo many times I let him.
is a very strange sensation, below is really soft and it seems that if you squeeze his hand hurt all organs, but the top is hard as a rock. It is also curious eye look closely and see the teeth that is still so small.
An enclosure that were in the midst of a well, had a significantly larger crocodile, five feet long and responded with their jaws to the provocations of the girl, who poked a caned incredible head.
On the way back to the motor boat to take us back to the boat, I bought a doll Nubia to a girl who approached me, and still do not know how I could not resist buying a cross of life "gold" to a very old woman dressed from head to toe in black and endlessly repeating "buy them from the breast "For more than 10 minutes.
On the way back, the boat made a stop to give us a dip in the Nile I really felt like going, but again my stomach kept me from being able to enjoy a unique experience.
The rest of the way down to Aswan we had on the deck of the boat in the sun.
After lunch on the boat, pay the drinks consumed previous day and bid farewell to the waiters and the rest of the crew with whom we have shared the last days. We went down to the cabin and prepare the bags. Until the bus comes to pick us to the airport at about 18:30, we spend time on the deck of the ship lying and saying goodbye to the south of Egypt.
At 18:30 we went to the airport, which we reached in just over 20 minutes. The flight departs at 19:45 and a couple of hours we see a lot of light through the windows, the light coming from the city of Cairo. It is our first contact with the dimensions of the city, more than 10 million people.
The airport is huge, and then pick up the suitcases and solve a problem with a torn suitcase girl in the group, we meet two new guides join us on the bus taking us to the hotel. Pepe says goodbye to us until the next day and goes home.
After 2 hours in which we suffer tremendous traffic jams, we arrived at the Sheraton Royal Gardens Hotel, located halfway between the pyramids and Cairo museum area, two areas where they accumulate most of the hotels.
After making the distribution of rooms, we got to leave your luggage, and upon entering the room we got a pleasant surprise, since after the narrowness of the cabin, bathroom and beds of the ship, the room that we have had is enormous, large comfortable beds, and bathroom almost bigger than my living room. It also has a large terrace overlooking the hotel pool with night lighting has wonderful views.
After leaving the luggage, a few went down to dinner, but still 00:30 and there is nothing open in the hotel. At the end we managed to convince the waiters in a restaurant of the hotel and make us eager to devour a pizza that the one in the morning.
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