Egypt 2008 Cruise Ship on the Nile Photographs by Richard Mayne May 24-28, 2008  

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Our Cruise Ship	Nile River house Boat	hModern Bridge	Felucca

Near the Water The bank of the Nile is green	Ship's Atrium	hWhere were MANY Cruise Ships	Activity along the Nile

Lurla on the Sun Deck This was a very nice place to be	Bar and Covered Area Our ship was not crowded	hLooking for Baby Moses	High land away from the River was very arid

 

Activity on River Bank	Green area extended 1-3 miles back from River	hRiver edge Farming	Nice home

   

Train running along River May be like Other Tour took to Luxor	Nice looking Buildings and Felucca	hPool on Sun Deck	Typical Town Note Mosque

 

Cruise Boat docked at Small City	Our Cruise boat nosed to shore to pick up some medication	hBoat ahead of us enter Locks	We enter Locks

Very nice building (school ?)	Tight fit in Locks	hLock Gates	Boat behind us waiting its turn

   

Water Drops ~12 Ft. We now can get under bridge	Locks at Esna	hSaw lots of Donkey Carts	Very nice Green Area. After crossing Sinai we notice Green

Small City	Two Masted Lateen Boat	hApproching a large mountain range	Older Bridge

 

Major Cruise Boat Port of Call	River Resort	hLots of Felucca's	Looks nice

 

River Traffic	The Lateen type Sail Was only rig we saw on Nile	hRace ready one design fleet (/)	Luxor Street

 

Sun Deck of Cruise boat tied up inside us Same Company	Farm land Seen on way to Temple	hSkipper of River taxi We crossed to East side	On River taxi

   

On River taxi	Ryan and Jerry	hFrom Cruise Ship Sun Deck	Walter and Jerry seek Shade

     

Promenade where Cruise ship docked	We were the Last Cruise Group on Ship They began dismantling for Dry Dock	hOur Room	Strut to keep us off seawall

   

Lots of Cruise ships on Nile	Company owning our Ship	hClose of of Felucca, and Water Taxi	They had a Dress up Night This group was happy they did it??

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