The felucca was a sailing boat with a deck covered in a mattress and pillows. It had a covering about a meter above the mattress and a curtain they'd pull down around the sides overnight. The 13 of us fit there comfortably which was lucky as this was also where we slept.

There was another boat travelling with us that would prepare our food and that had toilets with showers above them. We could call that when we needed but swam in the nile the 2nd day rather then using showers.

Each night we had great fun enjoying a bonfire with our nubian crew as they sang and beat a drum to an African sounding beat. We did our best to dance with them and sing along and shared our bonfire culture with them giving them marshmallows to toast which they seemed to not have done before and really enjoyed!

During the day we relaxed and read. We also stopped at the temple Kom Ombo.

After 2 nights on day 10 we came aboard early morning and travelled to Edfu.

We visited the temple there then travelled on to Luxor.

On the day we boarded the felucca we saw an example of how controlling a government can be when all communications were cut off in Egypt - no phone, no internet, nada! It was a Friday and protests were planned in Cairo and our tour leader advised the same thing also happened at other times during the revolution.

I actually found it really un-nerving to be in a foreign country with no ability to contact the outside world! But fortunately it came back on again a few hours later.