I only posted about half of our Nile cruise story here on the travel blog. The last post was here, as we were nearing Luxor after visiting Edfu. I am so slow at "post processing" photos and composing the stories that I was falling farther behind every day - and missing out on the chance to describe local stories in Cairo that we wanted to share.
So there are over twenty Cairo posts in between Edfu and Luxor. I will resume the journey now. Recall that we spent one night on the train from Cairo to Aswan, then four days and three nights on the cruise ship M.S. Farah going from Aswan to Luxor and then took a plane back to Cairo from Luxor.
One of the delights of the Nile cruise is simply watching life along the river between Aswan and Luxor. The route takes visitors past farms, villages and towns for over a hundred miles. In many ways it represents time travel as you pass close to scenes of agriculture and livestock little changed from past centuries. One of my favorite photos is from 2009 when I spotted this ox-operated pump lifting water from The Nile for crop irrigation.
A Nile cruise vividly displays the narrow band of arable land along the banks of the river. Sandy hills and cliffs form a backdrop that leads out into the vast stretches of desert on either side.
A highway and railroad tracks run parallel to the Nile the entire distance from Cairo. Here a train, possibly the same one we traveled on the previous morning, streaks past us, no doubt bringing more tourists for the cruise boats.
Fishermen ply the river netting a variety of species.
Livestock farming occupies much of the land in this area.
Banana groves dot the shoreline.
A few small businesses and municipalities have docks.
Modern pumping stations appear periodically.
And some fine homes are situated along the river bank.
If you are interested in seeing more river cruise photos see this post from 2009 or these three posts from 2010.
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