Friday - 6/18/10 - Aswan - Unfinished Obelisk, Tender ride to a Nubian Village, soccer game with Nubian guys

Today we arrived in Aswan from Cairo via an overnight train and toured the likes of the High Dam as well as the Unfinished Obelisk. Here is a picture of the Obelisk:

From Egypt - Day 5 - Aswan - Unfinished Obelisk and the tender ride to the Nubian Village

We then headed back to the cruise ship and took a tender ride along the Nile River to a Nubian Village. Here is a picture of the scenery as we cruised the Nile to the village. Notice how perfect and FAKE the sand looks:

From Egypt - Day 5 - Aswan - Unfinished Obelisk and the tender ride to the Nubian Village

This was a VERY cool experience. Here is a friend that we picked up along the way. He even serenaded us in a few different languages!


Once we arrived at the village we proceeded to the house of crocodiles:

From Egypt - Day 5 - Aswan - Unfinished Obelisk and the tender ride to the Nubian Village

We all had the chance to hold one of these guys:))))) Don't worry - he didn't bite!

From Egypt - Day 5 - Aswan - Unfinished Obelisk and the tender ride to the Nubian Village

After shopping and visiting at the Nubian Village

From Egypt - Day 5 - Aswan - Unfinished Obelisk and the tender ride to the Nubian Village

we took a short detour to stop and check out some of that pristine sand as pictured previously. Well, as we got off the boat we proceeded to see a bunch of Nubian guys playing soccer. Well, they saw Americans and yelled right away "Come and play soccer with us. . . " Without hesitation a bunch of us ran over and had a bare-footed pick up soccer match with some awesome Nubian guys. Here is a picture of the group.

From Egypt - Day 5 - Aswan - Unfinished Obelisk and the tender ride to the Nubian Village

Here is a short video of our game..... It got delayed shortly as you can see by a large creature but we were able to resume the game very quickly:)


I do have to admit that we were defeated by a score of 4-3. This was one of the most memorable days in my opinion. (I am sure you could tell by the length of this post.) I hope you enjoyed.