Falucca Captain

Sailing, Sailing

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January 9th 2007
The sailboats we met in the afternoon after our Abu Simbel trip are called feluccas. I'd say ours, called Moodshadow, was about thirty feet long, with a single, curved sail. Yes! After all this running around and getting up super early, we had 2 days and two nights of sailing down the Nile doing nothing! Boarding the felucca by a little gang plank, we piled our bags underneath and lounged in ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Upper Egypt » Kom Ombo

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The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom arose circa 3200 B.C. and a ser... ... read more