• Betty AppletonEgypt with Riley June 2023Traveler
    On the cruise to the Nubian Island where a Nubian sang us cheerful songs.
    A felucca boat that is used on the Nile, there was no wind so they pulled us with a motor boat.On the boat sailing on the Nile to the Nubian VillageNubian VillageThe amicable Nubians migrated from Sudan around 8000 years ago to begin farming alongRiley dancing with the Nubian people who were super niceStill colorful ceiling of the KomOmbo templeWell preserved hieroglyphs with Riley all alone, so amazingTowering columns of the KomOmbo temple just off the Nile shore

    Day 8: Aswan Nubian Village, KOMOMBO

    June 23, 2023 in Egypt ⋅ ☀️ 84 °F

    The Nubian Village was colorful and the people were wonderful. Riley was selected to dance with them. We visited their modest home and purchased a handmade purse. The Philae Temple complex had a fantastic hieroglyphs built around 380 BC. We then visited the KomOmbo Temple with large columns. This temple was dedicated to Sobek-the crocodile god and Harris, the falcon-headed god. Reused blocks suggest an earlier temple from the Middle Kingdom period, but the main temple was built by Ptolemy VI Philometor, and most of its decoration was completed by Cleopatra VII’s father, Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos. There were medical instrument on the walls and a birthing room shown in hieroglyphs on the walls. Mummified crocodiles that were 2,500 years old were amazing. Today they only live in Lake Nassar and are huge, but not the Nile River after being removed to Lake Nassar.Read more