Our time in Aswan has ended, after a peaceful nights sleep, it’s time to take the train to Luxor where another adventure awaits us. In the early morning hours we again drug our luggage through the sand of Elephantine island on our way to the ferry We glided across the water and scrambled through the city streets to the train station in order to catch a 7:30 train.
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!
