I'm creating a drawing a day for the art of it.
Nile felucca
These graceful little boats with their asymmetrical sails litter the Nile's banks, competing for space with house boats and hotel balconies.
I took one from Luxor to Banana island, it seemed like easy sailing over very smooth water but the men who sail these boats must know the strange currents in such a big, shifting river.
They make you tea on board, with a tiny gas stove, in a shot glass and medicinally sweet!
Out on the more than a mile wide river it's cool, the only cool outdoor place I experienced in Egypt. When you get to Banana island it's hot again. But as the island is thickly forested with banana trees, it's a shadowy hot unknown on the banks of the Nile, which are cultivated or bare but not thick with trees usually.
You get tiny bananas to eat, a hand span long and sweet, really sweet!
Egypt is a treasure, I loved it, and despite any Egyptology you may have studied, I challenge you to stand under the columns of the template at Karnak and not believe aliens helped build it!
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