Crusing down the Nile River

Cruising down the Nile really gives you a sense of past and present of Egypt. There are mud brick houses (with satellite dishes on top) and villages along the bank. Donkeys being ridden by men and boys or pulling carts of vegetables, fruit or sugar cane. Woman washing their cloths with children playing along the banks or swimming in the brown water, all waved and smiled as we sailed by. In the distance were the ever present bluffs and golden rolling dunes signifying the desert’s edge.