Egyptian Pizza and the Philae Temple Light Show

After our Nile River felucca ride in Aswan, Leah and I went back to the hotel, across from which is this creepy window display, barely noticeable in daylight, but obviously hard to miss by night.








Our next stop was pizza. The "Lonely Planet" guidebook promised a tasty and different treat, with an Egyptian flare. It was all of that and cheap too. Check out the kiln-looking oven where they bake the dough. Pretty cool. Here, a rare occurance, Leah allows me to take a photo of her posing, with the friendly pizza dudes.

We took our freshly baked Egyptian pizza on the road. We ate it in the van...which was taking us to the boat, which would take us to the Philae Temple. :)






The Light Show was beautiful, but since it was presented in "German only" that evening, Leah and I agreed we could have skipped the last 30 minutes. From what I could gather, ancient egyptian gods (speaking german) were having a dialog while different sections of the architecure were spotlighted with various warm and cool colors. Next time we'll catch the English audio.

My favorite part of the evening was the boat ride to and from the island. It felt like we were on the set of a "B" Horror movie. Even though another bus load of tourists had arrived, somehow Leah and I got an entire huge boat to ourselves. Complete darkness, a gazillion stars, the sound of black water rushing away from us... and then the island becomes visible, with the glowing ancient architecture perched on top.

As part of our package deal, the next day we were taken out to this island again. Of course, I took more photos.