Felucca fun!

 This mornings agenda called for a 4 hour felucca float on the Nile. We all loved it. We hid out on the giant, cushioned deck and had a really lovely sail. The felucca’s have a built in shade top and the breeze off of the water was great. Not hot at all. A few in our group splashed around in the Nile, but not the McLains. The Nile isn’t a spring fed, pristine, body of water so we made the decision to skip in favor of heath for the next 7 weeks. We were served a very yummy lunch on the boat to include, bread, vegetable soup, tagine potatoes, noodles, and chicken. Delicious!

Our next stop was Kom Ombo temple built for Sobek and Horus the Elder. It is very unusual to have 2 gods honored in a single temple. Our guide showed us many examples of these two gods being worshipped in the hieroglyphics. They even incorporated images of each other on their own sides of the temple which showed their respect for one another. 

Sobek was most interesting to me and Dagny because he believed his power could be channeled through the crocodiles which lived on an island near by. He would keep a crocodile in his temple and feed and care for it, believing it provided divine inspiration. When the honored crock would die it was mummified and a new croc would take its place as most special croc. The little museum housed about 20 of these mummified crocodiles.Very cool.

We are in Luxor tonight and will spend two days touring here before we fly to Amman Jordan. We are seeing really cool things and learning a bunch. Egypt has a very different feel than Morocco, so this does feel a lot like 2 different experiences. So pleased to be here and enjoying time as a family.

Jll