Photos - Cairo to Aswan, Egypt

Here are some pictures! This first one is the red carpet treatment we got at the start of the expedition, in Cairo. We had been led by police escort up to the pyramids, where the offical start of the race was. There, the Egyptian Minister of Tourism talked to us and welcomed us to the start of the tour. Here is the picture of it.

Next, here is a guy standing at attention at the Valley of the Kings, outside of Luxor, Egypt. I think he was making sure that grave robbers didn't steal ancient archaelogical stuff.

Here is a picture of one of our Egyptian security guards. I took it at a lunch break at the truck. The truck always stops about half-way through the day, by the way, and gives us lunch - usually, sandwiches and some fruit.

The next two pictures are Chas's train (specifically, the ca-BOOSE), and a neat town built into the rocks, just north of Aswan, Egypt.

Voila! Here is one of the many photos I took of the boat-loading adventure in Aswan, Egypt. This was for our overnight ferry that took us across Lake Nasser to Wadi Halfa, Sudan. The boat was waaayyyyy overloaded. I sat on the upper deck of the boat for hours with my new Egyptian friend that I met, while we watched them load. He was estimating that we would set sail at 6:00 p.m. I was saying, nooo, they'll get it all loaded by the scheduled take-off of 4:00. Well, we set sail at about 7:00 p.m. In this particular photo, the pick-up truck had almost fallen over and a bunch of its cargo had fallen off, creating quite a stir. They then held the truck up with these two pieces of plywood, while they continued unloading. What an adventure that was!