Day two in Egypt and we wake up at 3:30 am to take our Uber to the Cairo airport. It’s time to travel 12 hours south of Cairo along the Nile to Aswan. We speed up the trip by taking a flight instead of driving. We read that many choose the overnight train instead of flying but that is $100 US per person, Jeff is a pretty light sleeper and probably wouldn’t sleep well on an overnight train so I think it’s best to fly. Some say it saves the price of a hotel but a hotel in Aswan is only $40 a night, so it didn’t seem worth it. I was happy to find airline tickets for $70 each so that seemed like a “win-win”. We talked to other budget travelers who took the day train for only $11 per person but that sounded grueling to be on a train for 12 hours!