Photos - Ferry to Wadi Halfa

Loading the ferry is all by hand. Trucks carry unbelievable loads, and ferries apparently carry an unbelievable number of truckloads.

Accommodation on board is the first class deck, shared with the freight and the bicycles.

Thanks to a late departure, the sun was up going past Abu Simbel

11 ABU SIMBEL

After all the formalities of immigration and customs clearance, we convoy through Wadi Halfa to camp beside the football field and get treated to the full moon rising.

We had an impromptu day off becuae the support trucks were delayed. A local Nubian (a chemical engineer, trained in Germany and Toronto) gave us a talk about Nubian history and showed us his home.