After a great sleep, we get breakfast delivered to our room, just a selection of breads (a little on the firm side) and tea or juice. I brave a trip to the bathroom to find that the reason you can’t use it when stopped at stations is because there is nowhere for ‘stuff’ to go but outside! I’d hate to be a perway walker here! Looking outside as we go along, there are a lot of farms and people dressed more traditionally, not many shirts and pants by the men but lots of the long robes. There are heaps of donkeys though, being ridden, used with little carts, carrying stuff… We get to Aswan about 9ish and are met but another Ahmed who tells us the convoy to Abu Simbel leaves at 11am so he will
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