by Ryan Markiewicz | Oct 15, 2025 | Berlin's Wall
All,
From Luxor, we flew to Aswan, where the famous dam is. This was built in the 60’s to control the annual flooding, which used to wreak havoc with its unpredictability. Now its flow is controlled, so life along the river is less dangerous. So much so that although the Nile River Valley is only 10% of Egypt’s land, 90% of its population lives along its banks. Incredible. They are trying to get people to move westward into the desert, but I think that is a tough sell. Some hardscrabble land.
We took a great small boat ride down to a Nubian village. Nubians live in southern Egypt and have much darker complexions than Egyptians from the north. Actually, due to the long-time influence of Greeks and Romans on the Mediterranean coast, Egyptians can range from very dark to very light-skinned. Not what some people expect.
We visited several more temples and learned about the rich and wonderful Egyptian culture, and flew back to Cairo today. Tomorrow, onto Jordan 🙂
Onward!
Cruising down the Nile
The land is so fertile along the river. Because of that 90% of all Egyptians live by the Nile.
Locals tied onto our boat, trying to sell goods to the passengers. WAY better than Somali pirates coming after us 🤣
This is the Nile, looking north from the Aswan Dam. And that’s a modern-day Sphinx guarding it hahahaha
This is the Temple of Abu Simbel. Incredible!!!
Lots of pretty violent battle scenes portrayed everywhere on the walls. Keep in mind these are over 3,500 years old.
A friendly face peering out through the wall of the tomb
Pretty incredible, huh?
And this is the inside
Nubian village. 30 miles from the border of Sudan
We took this small boat to the Nubian village. Notice the name: Titanic. I figured it was safe. No icebergs here hahahahaha
Crocodile mummies
Here’s a contest: Guess which one is the captain of the ship?
by Ryan Markiewicz | Oct 14, 2025 | News
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by Ryan Markiewicz | Oct 13, 2025 | News
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by Ryan Markiewicz | Oct 11, 2025 | Berlin's Wall
Hallie, getting in the spirit (of the Pharaohs 🙂 )
Literally, the sky looks like this—blue/no clouds almost 365 days a year here!
What’s incredible about these temples is not just how grand they are (I think you can sense the height from this picture) but that they were all buried under the sand for thousands of years until they got “discovered”. There is actually graffiti at the top of many of these columns from kids writing on them when the sand was up to the top of these. Crazy!
Somali pirates in training attacked our boat, but we were able to repel them with water hoses and machine guns. Just kidding. I think, like NYC “subway surfers” they just wanted to latch onto our boat for a faster ride 😉
Cruising down the Nile. Lots of rocks and caves that people lived in.
by Ryan Markiewicz | Oct 10, 2025 | Berlin's Wall
The colors in this tomb are over 3,500 years old
This is the ceiling
The hieroglyphics, over 3,000 years old, are truly stunning.
Walking like an Egyptian?
That is the tomb King Tut was buried in.
Like those Russian matrushka dolls, Tutankhamen was buried with three of these, each inside another. He remained safely there until thousands of years later, when he was discovered in 1920.
King Tut! The original. Ruled from the age of 9 til he died at 18. Crazy!
Another tomb. The tomb of King Hatshepsut. These are all in the middle of this arid, rocky desert in “the middle of nowhere”. Incredible.
Scary what you can find down in these ancient tombs.
An Egyptian minivan for a family of 5 😉
