Trip to Aswan - Day 2

So, we found our way to Aswan ... got picked up at the train station by somebody from our hotel. We shared a room, the three of us. Next morning we had breakfast and right after that we adventured ourselves down the corniche, having in mind all the touristic places the Lonely Planet guide talks about: Elephantine Island, Botanical garden etc.

We found a guy and after bargaining we got a felucca for 50 LE for 2 hours. Captain Ziko and his felucca "Relax". We had a good laugh in the beggining of our trip about his felucca and the sign on it, as you can see, but it was only later that we figured out that that was the name of the felucca.

We had a relaxing day ... saw the botanical gardens and just chilled on the Nile.

After that we went to the souk ... that was a challenge.. even for me (and people say i am a good bargainer). Most of the shops had signs that said: "No hassle", but that is what exactly what they were doing. All the vendors were trying to get us to come into their shops. We have met an Egyptian guy who was trying to sell me a silver bracelet.. i have to admit that i liked the bracelet, but could simply not afford it. He was charging 350 LE; he was so funny and kept saying: "What does the computer say?" "The computer says no!". This is from an English commercial. he was married to an English lady. :)

Later in the evening, one guy was shouting that he sells scarves for 5 Le, so we went into his shop. We kept asking how much ofr a particular scarf and he kept ignoring us and showing what he has in his shop. I got mad and said: "how much is this? is it 5 pounds?" He said: "Of course not, madame... who sells this for 5 pounds?". To his astonishment, i said "but you said you have scarves for 5 pounds!". Then he tried to explain that he was just joking to attract us in his shop. I looked at him and said: "Listen, you cant do that! You are wasting my time!!! the foreigners do not like these kind of jokes!" and i left.

We had tea in a very obscure place, but we had so much fun there!! There was a little boy - he was not more than 3 yrs old and he loved Esther's camera.

It seemed that Aswan was very quiet that evening, at least down on the corniche where we had dinner; there was nobody at the restaurant. We had pizza on a boat restaurant that smelled like gas, but we were done quickly and headed back to our hotel for a good rest.