Vom Zytglogge ans Kap der Guten Hoffnung: Nile Valley to Assuan

After 1'400 km in the desert we join the Nile again to cycle the remaining 200 km to Assuan. Encounters are switching between excellent and stressful within days.
Coming out of the desert we ask a family if we can set up our tent on their land for one night. The answer is yes, but not only that: everyone comes out and we are invited for tea, then hot milk with sugar and an excellent bread and then to eat. This means that Chantal and I do eat alone in the house while all the family is waiting outside and the kids spy on us to see how we eat. ;-)
There is no way of having them eat with us!!!
We spend the evening talking around the fire sitting on benches. These description don't show how welcoming and warm the ambiance is. We spend one of our best evenings with some strangers who have taken us into their family and leave friends in the morning! There is a tear or two left on their ground...

The day we leave this lovely family then turns out to be a pretty stressful day with alot of kids and teenagers yelling "hello, how are you? what is your name? money!" all along the next 70 km to Edfu. The increasingly aggressive traffic and our empty stomacs don't help to relax.
We are tired and spend the night in a hotel. The mosque is within reaching distance! The night accordingly of rather light sleep! "Allah al akbar!"

Traffic eases the next day as the main road takes another way than ours. We relax and enjoy the scenery just to end up with another very welcoming family living just beside the Nile. It's lovely to sleep and be woken up by singing birds!

We reach Assuan the next day.
It's Sunday evening: we have a visa for Sudan, we have a ferry ticket. We have money. We are setup for new encounters in a new country. Ma'asalame Egypt, Salaam Aleikum Sudan!