Two boats catch a scrap of sunlight in a muddy river.

I'm creating a drawing a day for a year, just for the art of it.

Here is today's, boats in Egypt.

Nile Felucca

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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