Lots of different modes of travel…

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We tried many and observed a few. Our air travel was on newer airplanes, and big buses were newer and comfortable (40 passenger buses for 9 tourists). Then it was on to some old world and third world modes of transport!

Camels!! Oh my! I don’t know how they traveled across the Sahara desert on these things!
Hot air balloons, peaceful, serene and seeing the world from a different point of view. It was our third hot air balloon ride. If you’ve never ridden in one I’d recommend it.
In the back of a pick up truck. We rode in these to get to a city/village. Not that comfortable or quiet, OK for a short ride.
View from our truck, the rest of our group is in the truck behind us
Tuk tuks, mainly Chinese motorcycle front end with a home made rear end, fairly comfortable.
View from inside the tuk tuk
How the traffic flow works in these rural cities, we never saw an accident!!!
Horse drawn carriage was a nice ride on smooth city streets. We rode them to a temple in Edfu.
Our ride back to the boat during one of the “call to prayer” announcements on the city wide PA system.
Water travel was always nice. Water taxis were used several times to access sites just across the river. This is in Luxor, where a bus ride in traffic would have taken much longer.
This water taxi was used to access a families farm on an island in the Nile.
This is the tugboat that pulled our Dahayeba down the Nile 99 percent of the time. We used it as our water taxi a few times.’
A mode of travel we did not use. I think I would have over loaded the poor donkey!
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Rod and Patty Jenkins are retired and enjoy traveling. We hope you enjoy our posts as we we see different locations around the globe.

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