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Day 9 - Aswan - Kitchener Island

25th May 2024

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Kitchener Island and Botanical Garden

 

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Egyptian breakfast delights, despite their names
 
Doom Juice...

Breakfast 1

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Breakfast 2


 
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Breakfast 3

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Fish farm 1

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Fish farm 2

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View from our room...

Island 1

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View from the water taxi to Kitchener Island...

Island 2

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Kitchener Island...

Kitchener 7
 
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Kitchener 1

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Kitchener 5

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Looking across Elephant Island and the mainland beyond...

Kitchener 3


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Kitchener 4
 


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The well-named Floss Silky Tree...
 
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Kingfisher...


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Kitchener 6


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Looking out from Kichener Island to the Sahara Desert...

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Monastery...

Aga Khan 1
 
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Aga Khan Mausoleum...

Aga Khan 2

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Aga Khan 3

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Kitchener 8

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Kitchener 9

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Boarding the water taxi - the hotel's restaurant tower in the distance - only the top two floors are utilised, the tower beneath is just a platform...

Kitchener 10

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Water taxi 1

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Old Cataract Hotel - we saw that much more closely when we visited the next day...
 
Water taxi

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Our hotel was part of the Movenpick group, so there was no lack of ice cream available...

Ice Cream

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Deer


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Views from around Elephant Island...

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Traditional band...

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Band 2
 


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Day 4 - Luxor & Karnak Day 5 - Nile - Valley of the Kings & Hatshepsut Day 6 - Nile - Edfu & Kom Obu
Day 7 - Nile - Abu Simbel Day 8 - Aswan - Dam, Philae Temple & Obelisk Day 9 - Aswan - Kitchener Island
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