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My Christmas trip with Tara began in Aswan
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The softness of sunset
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Our walk gets more colorful as we enter the souq
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A "hello" from above
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Egypt's newer public water dispenser
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Ladies' fingers or okra
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Kitties amidst the trash
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Koshary cart
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The okra vendor and his friend
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We learned about herbs and admired baskets
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The ful pot maker
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Buddies
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And more buddies
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Watching the world go by
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Egypt's older public water dispenser -- sadly surrounded by trash
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We ended our walk with a visit to Feryal Gardens, right next to the hotel
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Christmas carols & cocktails in the Old Cataract Hotel front garden
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The Old Cataract Hotel 1902 restaurant
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Christmas dinner at the Cataract
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Christmas treats from the hotel
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An atypical, but perfect, Christmas Day
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This time the Cataract Hotel treated us to a room with a terrace
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We set sail - so to speak - at sunrise on our Lake Nasser cruise
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Transportation to our first visit -- to Kalabsha Temple
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Moving Kalabsha Temple was undertaken by Germany
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Kalabsha was built around 30 BC during Augustus's reign but was never finished. It was a tribute to Mandulis, a Lower Nubian sun god. -Wikipedia
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The gods Thoth and Horus anointing the king
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The Nubian god Mandulis
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Offerings of lotus and papyrus
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The Kiosk of Kertassi was moved to the site of New Kalabsha but once stood at the entrance to the sandstone quarries of Qertassi. -Wikipedia
