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morning guys today it's pretty exciting
because we're gonna be jumping on a
felucca which is an Egyptian boat we're
gonna be sailing along the Nile River
for two days but first we've decided to
wake up super early jump on a bus and
head to a bruit embassy and head to Evan
and head to everything they've come down
to the abu simbel temple it's taking us
like three hours the ideas we have to
wake up at like 3:00 a.m. and this
temple is dedicated to king rama sees ii
who is a very important Pharaoh I'm sure
a lot of you recognize that name this is
meant to be one of the grandest temples
here in Egypt so I'm really excited to
see it this morning I'm not looking
we've been told to stare at the ground
and not look here amazi the treasury in
Petra oh yeah it's so confident aside
this is so cool yeah it's like Petra oh
cool there's like four of them but one's
missing
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absolutely insane
so King Rama sees the whole reason why
his legacy lives on is that he wanted to
be remembered as a God remember the fill
a temple we visited in the last blog how
they're worshipping the God of Isis
that's what he wanted he wanted people
to remember him as a god and that's why
this Abu Simbel was all the way down
south because he wanted to ignore the
gods of the north and kind of create his
own God in himself I mean these carvings
are just absolutely insane like this is
just so huge if I come up to it well
just towers and if you guys can see that
but just towers over you crazy can't
believe we're in here Wow look at these
carvings yeah wonder there's like
hieroglyphics up there and then what's
there here wow this is why you come to
Egypt guys
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so we're back at our hotel and we've
been watching all these feluccas coming
in so we are actually going to be
spending the next two nights living on
board one of these feluccas and they're
the traditional Egyptian boats and they
have no motor so it's all up to the wind
how much we're gonna be sailing and how
much we're gonna see it's so unique hey
we've never done something like this
before I am super excited I can't wait
to show you guys what this next kind of
two nights is gonna be because it's this
rustic living out no like beds just out
on the I actually don't know what to
expect I don't know I really like seen
anyone do this before they cook the
fruit on board yep we sleep under the
stars yeah I'm just yeah really excited
to see what it's actually like all right
let's show you where we can be living
for the next two days so there's a
couple of boats this one is the more
boat this is where we're gonna be having
lunch there's toilets on there and then
they've got two feluccas for us we're a
group of about 17 people and they're
gonna split it up between the two boats
so we're all nice and comfortable which
is super good hello this is the felucca
just yeah they got like a little section
down here with some heating so we might
be able have coffees and teas yeah this
is the felucca yeah it's got shade which
is gonna be nice because it's about 40
degrees right now this is a super
comfortable mattress here and she's like
a life jacket as well as our pillows
that's pretty much it this is pretty
much where we're gonna be hanging out
and then there's the second boat just
over there yes this is where the other
group we're still deciding which boat
we're gonna go on so you picked up for
Luka we're over there and while they
organize a few more things
so this boat is going to be a following
along with us kitchen bathroom eating
area Jess what are you doing breads and
falafels we got a bit of a tomato
cucumber salad here these look like
beans I think and then maybe an egg
salad I've no idea what that is but okay
so this is just kind of like where are
we gonna eat all our meals it's super
open fit everyone in super comfy
lunch was tasty by the way this themed
concoction was so nice reminded me of
something you have it like nachos super
yummy and of course the Egyptian bread
is always good but I thought I'd show
you guys there is like a bathroom on
board you got your bathroom you got your
toilet just here and yeah then you can
shower
I wasn't expecting there to be a shower
but I think everyone's just heading back
to the felucca now and then we're gonna
set sail
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I couldn't sleep last night my mind was
somewhere else and I tried in the to
wake you up from dreaming how do I tell
you that it's all because of us Emily
and because of feeling sorry we have all
set sail but we could be having wind
issues if we're heading back because it
seems to be that we're making our way
back to our hotel you need an hour
rumour could be so choppy I wasn't
expecting it I don't think they were
either I feel like me - any thoughts
one hour later alrighty we are
officially off saline it's currently
quite windy so we have a little bit of
pellet but more votes and it was run the
night guys
Karlee sailing on the Nile to the PATA
21 today I think it seemeth now we're
just going to enjoy and watch the sunset
on the boat
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Cheers
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this has been so nice it's our first
sunset on the nile we're just been
having a couple of beers drinking and
chatting and chilling and it's
you're perfect so during the night the
boat just finds a place a dock and then
we just stay there
sleep the night - enough of sleeping
while the boat is moving but have a
little bit of a shore excursion there's
a nubian house here they've invited us
into their house and we're gonna go have
some Egyptian tea just might get some
henna done and some of the other guys
might have some shisha so colorful yeah
didn't expect it his house is actually
quite big that's blue yeah it could be
thank you yes thank you
yes it's local Egyptian tea green minute
treatment
oh oh that's so nice it's like a really
natural herbal tea this is one of those
nights but you really feel like you're
at Egypt but is sitting here and like
additional harm at drinking tea having
she shot getting him off so cool so you
can rent like a sleeping bag or a
blanket but it is so hot so we literally
just before the trip went to BW and
bought my feet ashy it's got a sheets
queen sized sheet I feel like that's all
we can sleep in and they do give you
pillows by the way yeah okay if I set
the alarm for 5:00 I'm sure the Sun are
we waking up at 4:00 yeah
but we're back at our hotel we literally
couldn't have slept that I'm gonna call
it an Egyptian sandstorm hit us so Santa
started bellowing it was insane I don't
think this happens often
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