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Day 5 - Aswan

March 11, 2009

We're in Aswan in our cute hotel room!

Mecca is that way

We have a garden room, and we are right on the Nile!

In the market we saw people carrying giant pieces of meat

Back at our hotel - isn't it great?

Matt, our friend Blair, and our hotel pool

View of the Nile from our hotel

Now we're at the unfinished obelisk in Aswan

4000 years ago they cut out this obelisk to take to Luxor...

But then they found a crack in it so they just left it

It's pretty huge. That must have taken forever.

Now we bargained for a boat...

and sailed to Philae Temple!

It's very pretty and right on the Nile

Lots of carvings of gods and pharoahs

Matt in at Philae temple

The goddess Hathor

Going in the inner part of the temple

These people are huge!

Columns are huge too

Matt and hieroglyphics

Walking around the temple perimeter

The outer shrine

It's very pretty and right on the water

This dude lost his skin due to early Christians

Erin and Matt

Last shot, now back to the boat

Bye, Philae temple!

At the Aswan dam

Erin and Lake Nasser, the largest manmade lake in the world

Soviet monument at Aswan dam

Eating kosheri - macaroni, lentils, fried onions, tomato sauce

Basically it's like Egyptian takeout

Yum

View from our hotel

Waiting for Blair to use the internet at the cafe

Lots of feluccas on the Nile

Matt took a quick swim in our hotel pool.

EVERYONE is constantly smoking hookahs.

This guy made fresh sugarcane juice for us.

Spices in Aswan

The market at night