1 Feluccas are lined up to take tourists for a ride on the Nile.
2 Another view of feluccas lined up with vendors waiting for the opportunity to ply their wares.
3 Time for our group to board the Nile Crown.
4 The crew helps passengers aboard.
5 A view of the rocks - an area likely to have been cataracts before the damning of the Nile.
6 As seen in other images, the desert come right up to the shore of the Nile with a gree strip where water nourishes plant growth.
7 This scene was also visible from the open air restaurant in the Old Cataract Hotel.
8 A crewman had to get out and pull the boat along by hand with a rope — the wind had died down and the skipper could not maneuver without wind in the sails.
9 A vendor talks to passengers. The dark skin of this fellow indicates he might have Nubian ancestors.
