Just came back from another felucca ride on the Nile. Sometimes I feel this can’t be real, here I am on the Nile. It was a lovely 38C and hotter day. About 20 of us went to the Corniche where the feluccas are tied up. Feluccas are Egyptian sailboats which can be hired for 50 LE an hour. We always take a picnic with us and set it out on the table in the middle of the boat with bench seats arranged around the sides and back of the boat. The boat captain sits in the back and guides the boat through the traffic of other feluccas, ferries and other pleasure boats carrying tourists and Egyptians out for an evening sail. While waiting to board we saw something you don’t see to often, some brave soul water skiing on the Nile. Waterskiing isn’t a dangerous sport, the danger is falling in and swallowing the water from the Nile!
