We left Aswan and headed down the Nile River on another cruise boat. Two things become readily apparent when on the Nile. The first is the lush Eden like conditions disappear quickly into dessert a few feet away from the banks of the Nile. The second is that except for rubber tires on the donkey carts, life is pretty much the same for Egyptian farmers as it was three thousand years ago. Families tend their stock, work their fields by hand and carry produce to market on donkeys. The crops I saw were date palms, sugar cane and vegetables.As the boat moves down towards Cairo there are groups of boys playing soccer and every Egyptian farmer now has electricity. But the rhythm of life is still tied to the Nile and the growing season.
those fishermen standing up in the boat without swamping it! They are good. The pictures, as usual, are beautiful. Life does move slower, but not less.
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