We started the morning off with a death on the ship. My hair straightener didn’t make it – we thought we did everything right with our adapter, but it bit the dust! Thankfully, no one else was harmed in its untimely demise.

We were docked in Edfu from the previous night – and we woke up to another horse and carriage ride. We realized that four wheels are better than two wheels when it comes to carriages. It was a brisk morning, but we were excited to get back on the horse.

Our driver spoke enough English to know that we wanted to go slower. In fact, we made the joke “Slow and steady FINISHES the race.” After our accident on the first full day, we weren’t taking any chances.

The Temple of Edfu is one of the best preserved temples in Egypt. It also stands quite tall in stature as well. This temples is dedicated to Horus, the son of Isis and Osiris. Horus is the falcon God – who you see in so many of the pictures from the trip. He is personally one of my favorites!

Again, there is so much detail in all of the different murals within each temple. Michael tricked us into thinking that one of them was the Wi-Fi symbol – it really does look like it! In reality it was for incense.

The temple was built with the thought of how birds fly – they soar in circle and then when they dive they go straight down. There are two different staircases getting to the upper level – so you see both on either side of the temple.

Our same driver brought us back in the carriage – Michael had encouraged us to save fruit so we could feed the horses. Some of them looked really skinny and malnourished. Thankfully our new friends, Nancy and Tobin had been stockpiling on apples and she gave us one to share with our horse. (Thank you!)

We tipped the driver with some cash and then gave the horse the apple. The driver had to help me cut it, I guess the horse wasn’t able to break into it on its own.

After the Edfu temple we were going to cruise to Luxor, which I’ll post in another blog because we saw quite a bit there as well!

Upcoming Activities:

-Travel to Luxor
-Temple of Luxor
-Karnak Temple