Cruising the Nile

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.