Crusing the Nile then Sailing the Nile with a few thousand years history in between

Last night we visited a temple in the evening, beautifully lit up. This one a double with the Goddess Isis and another Horis. This one had medical instruments chiseled into the stone as well as prescriptions that were written by ancient medicine men (women?) signed with the Eye of Horis which looks remarkedly like the Rx sign on script pads your doc gives.

this was in the city of Edfu. Overnight we cruised to the city of Aswan. What I noticed that as we went South, more and more women were covered with hajib and many with face veils. I saw no women or even girls with heads uncovered and many more men in clerical clothing. It seems like the US with more churchgoers in general in the Southeast than North. We went to the Nubian Museum (we are closer to the Sudan here) and it was amazing.

There are also many unfinished buildings, some high rises, that are unfinished with no one working on them. Most of these were started before the 2011 Arab Spring that ousted Mubarek, but the new economy has yet to catch up. The faltering Egyptian Pound hasn't helped much and of course tourism is down since the Mosque massacre of 300 souls lost a few weeks ago. To end the day we took a sunset cruise on a Folluka, a lovely sailboat with a crew that sang and made us dance as the sun was going down. We sang and tried to do a conga line, but proved once again, many Americans cannot dance.

Flying tomorrow over the dam and getting on another cruise boat to continue our journey up the Nile Nate and Raphie