We decided to have a relaxed day’s sightseeing in a felucca – a sail powered dhow which Samy, our handler organised. He turns out to be a man of many parts; as well as handling aircraft, he is a competent coxswain of a felucca and displayed his skills today in the fast flowing waters of the Nile around some of the islands in the river, of which there appear to be several around Aswan. Tourism round here is very quiet at the moment but nevertheless, there is still considerable felucca and motor boat traffic on the river as the picture below shows.
We passed a rather splendid building shown below which is a mausoleum built for the Aga Khan who died here in 1957; the building stands on a high promontory overlooking the NIle to the west of Aswan.
Tomorrow we fly on to Khartoum and then to Kenya on Tuesday. I am not sure whether internet is available in Khartoum but will update if I can.