Arab spring

It has just started in 2020 and unfortunately I am away from Tahrir square due to covid-19

Islamic Cairo

On the day before the border closed I took a ride to Islamic Cairo in order to ask some help from Alá :-)

And I started by Mosque Madrassa of Sultan Hassan

then took a way

to Mosque of Ibn Tulun

Then toward Khan el-Khalili

But, forgive me Alá, the way is very ugly :-(

Finally, I will not miss Cairo traffic :-)

Zamalek and Gezira neighborhood

While the border is not closed I keep borrowing good luck :-)

Aisha Fahmy Palace

beside Nile river

There is Cairo opera as well but I am not sure if my employer will allow me to study Arabic language so just outside ... for a while :-)

Cairo tower on the back

to take an overview

even Giza pyramid can be seen

Covid-19 has got me

So in order to keep myself sanitized I will use an Egyptian medicine :-)

Because after the airport shutdown even Alitalia has lost itself and changed my flight from Cairo to Rome

after the flight from Rome to Brazil has taken off :-)

So I took a flight from Aswan airport

and passed by Nile river surrounded by fertile valley and desert

Maybe Giza pyramids as well

Sailing...

... not to Philadelphia but on a felucca

with Nubian village at the back

and others feluccas on Nile river

with sunset arriving

Abu Simbel

Temples of Abu Simbel

composed by Great Temple of Ramses II

and Temple of Hathor

which can be reached by a road on the desert

but not desert road:-)

Friday the 13th

It was not so unlucky, after all I am still on vacation and in Ibiza ... bar :-)

By taking a boat from downtown Aswan

toward Elephantine island with narrow streets

shared with local inhabitants

Some archeological sites

and Gharb Aswan to the west

Last but not least: there was beer :-)

Gharb Aswan or West Aswan

After haggling unsuccessfully, I changed my mind and focus on what I am really good, that means, nothing :-)
So I took a ferry toward Gharb Aswan and I will let the picture speak by themselves :-)

Aswan and Elephantine island

inside suggested by a reader

 where some vandals passed by :-(