ASWAN - EGYPT

On paper it was a simple 3 hour train journey down to Aswan starting at 9:30am. At midday we asked 3 different guards when the train was coming and got 3 completely different answers. To cut a long story short I arrived at Aswan at 6:30pm and it was dark.


This has to be one of the worst examples of food hygiene I had ever seen. Putting bread for later sale on the seat of a crowded train station. Worse still the knife he used for spreading the bread was put into his mouth!!!!!!!!!!!


On arrival the first person I spoke to lived less than 5 miles away from where I do. He was cycling from the UK to south Africa overland. I could only stay at the accommodation 2 nights as it was booked up solid.


I spent the day exploring Aswan on foot and making a boat trip across to Elephantine while there I visited the museum.

It was in Aswan that the hassle factor started to wear me down a lot. It had been full on in Luxor having to constantly fight off touts trying to sell overpriced boat trips. However in Luxor I had a laidback hostel to retreat back to.

In Aswan the minute I walked into the accommodation I was constantly being pestered to buy tours. The person was still trying to sell me a tour for the following day despite the fact I was checking out and had showed him my ticket to Cairo. The kind of mentality I hate the most.

On the 14 hour night train ride to Cairo I had a bit of a bust up with some locals on a train. They demanded I moved out my seat despite the ticket matched the seat and car number. I had abuse hurled at me in broken English and the man behind started kicking my seat. In the end I found an empty car about 3 down

My opinion of the people in Egypt was getting lower by the minute.

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