The journey begins in Aswan, in the land of the Nubians on the border with Sudan. Here at the first cataract, the Nile Valley is particularly picturesque. The traces of history are omnipresent, the people friendly and open.
At the beginning of 2016, I invited my love and we flew to Aswan. We booked into the "Old Cataract" for nine days. The trip was wonderful. Everything that had been dormant inside me burst forth.
The journey begins in Aswan, in the land of the Nubians on the border with Sudan. Here at the first cataract, the Nile Valley is particularly picturesque. The traces of history are omnipresent, the people friendly and open.
First of all: building the felucca took much longer than my friends in Egypt and I had expected. In short, the timetable was far too ambitious and ill-advised.
