When I left the scenic area, I saw a Chery taxi parked there, shining brightly against the backdrop of the setting sun in the desert. Chery has an assembly plant in Egypt, and it assembles and sells parts from China in Egypt. I was a little excited to see industrial products from my hometown in Africa.

We took a minibus to Badrashein Station, a small town east of Saqqara. There was no order in buying tickets in the town, so we had to follow the local customs and squeeze forward.

Walking around the streets near the train station to kill time, planning to buy a few cans of beer to relax in the sleeper. Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo looked around with their faces full of worries. A little guy in a white shirt waved at Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo, pointing to the refrigerator next to them. Yunluo asked, "Do you have beer?"

The kid took out a can of a drink he didn't know what it was and said, "10 yuan a bottle." Yun Luo took it and saw that it had a lot of Arabic words on it, and the packaging looked like beer, "10 yuan for four cans."

The little guy smiled and shook his head like a drum, "Eight dollars a can." "Ten dollars plus this," Yun Luo took out two cans of beer and a bottle of Coke. The little brat pretended to have lost a lot of money, "Six dollars a can, take it away." Bargaining was really not Yun Luo's strong point. He got impatient first, paid twenty Egyptian pounds, took five cans and walked back.

On the platform, several Egyptian soldiers sat on benches, looking disheveled and lazy. It was past the hour and there was still no sign of the train. It was only after nine o'clock in the evening that the train finally arrived. A group of backpackers boarded the train with their bags. Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo finally got on the sleeper train to Aswan.

This train is highly recommended. It is a real-name train and is only open to foreign passengers. There is a small soft sleeper compartment for two people. Although it looks shabby, it has a wash basin, a dressing mirror, and sockets... In short, it has everything except a toilet. The attendant of the carriage of Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo. No, it should be called a waiter.

He is a middle-aged man with a gray mustache, glasses, and medium height. He wears a gray plaid vest and a bow tie. He looks meticulous and has a classic London style. He helps you set up the table and serves dinner. Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo each give him a small tip.

In the early years, the British Empire was not only concerned with making money in the colonies, but also trained a lot of Indian waiters. No, much better than Indians, the Indians in London have an inexplicable sense of superiority on their faces, saying "I am from the Commonwealth". The dinner was rich, but the taste was really not good. Although the packaging was like machine food, the taste was completely different.

For tomorrow, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo held back their tears and ate it all. For Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo, who could eat compressed biscuits for several days on the snowy mountain, this was nothing. But I suggest you eat well in Cairo before getting on the bus. I quickly took out the beer to add some flavor to my mouth and took two gulps from the can. It tasted pretty good.

After taking a closer look at where it was made, a line of small English words caught my eye: "Non-alcoholic beverages". I fainted! After dinner, the train attendant came to arrange the beds for Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo. It looked a bit complicated, but in fact, no extra tools were used to turn the two seats into upper and lower bunks.

The waiter silently and skillfully made the beds and folded the quilts for Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo. He didn't seem to be at all disgusted by the fact that he had nowhere to stay due to his luggage all over the floor and the smell of his feet after running around for several days.

In the morning, the train attendant brought hot coffee and light meals. Then he made the bed. Yunluo was quite used to this kind of home-like life. The train kept running on the fertile land of hope by the Nile River. It arrived in Aswan at around ten o'clock. He booked a ticket to Luxor the day after tomorrow. Buying tickets here is much more civilized.

Men and women were divided into two teams. Arriving in Aswan felt so comfortable, the sky was blue and the water was blue, everything looked cleaner and more comfortable than in Japan, there were fewer tourists, and it was easy to find a place to stay here and it was not expensive. Go south from the station along As-Souq and walk one mile to Nubianoasishotal.

The main reason why Nalanshiqi and Yunluo chose to come to Aswan was to experience the felluca, a small three-feluca sailing ship, and to go to Abu Simbel further south.

I asked the hotel waiter to help Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo contact a small sailboat that would go to Seheylisland in the evening. Then I took a taxi to the bus station to check the timetable for Abu Simbel tomorrow morning.

The remaining time is spent visiting the Temple of Isis. The Temple of Isis was originally located on Philae Island. After the Aswan Low Dam downstream was built in 1902, the water level rose. During the flood season, the Temple of Isis on Philae Island would be half submerged in the water. At that time, you had to rent a small boat to visit the temple and go boating between the columns of the temple corridor. The unique flavor is extremely popular.

Seventy years later, the United Nations no longer considered itself an outsider and felt sorry for the temple being soaked in water. Taking advantage of the newly built dam, it spent eight years cutting up the temple and moving it to Agilkiaislind Island and reassembling it again.

Nalanshiqi and Yunluo crossed the Aswan Low Dam to Shellal, and took a covered boat to Agyekia Island, which is the Temple of Isis. The ticket price is 40 Egyptian pounds. Isis is a tragic widow with a story. Her husband is her eldest brother Osiris. At that time, all royal nobles had this problem.

He said he was a strict parent, but in fact he was just protecting his children. He only let them play in his own circle and did not allow outsiders to see them. Rogues like Dong Yong and Wan Xiliang who specialized in climbing trees and climbing over walls to peek at people bathing had no chance at all. If they were caught, their eyes would be gouged out on the spot. Osiris taught people how to farm and sail, domesticated his subjects, and became the first pharaoh.

Equivalent to Shennong of Yunluochao. Isis's second brother, brother-in-law Seth, was greedy and lustful. He killed his eldest brother and wanted to usurp the throne and take possession of his eldest sister-in-law. Isis's own son, her nephew Horus, married close relatives. You know, he is not an easy person to deal with.

He didn't even blink an eye, and killed his own uncle to avenge his father's death, without any hesitation. The sun god Amun thought this family was pretty good, the good ones were really good, the bad ones were really bad, and the plot was as ups and downs as a Hong Kong or Taiwan soap opera, with three-dimensional and full characters, and they were all useful geniuses, so he deified them all.

The first courtyard of the temple is quite spectacular, with two rows of huge stone pillars with fine carvings, each with its own unique carvings. The second courtyard is a mixture of buildings of various sects, such as the Nativity Hall, which was only built during the reign of Ptolemy. A Greek became the emperor of Egypt, and he felt uneasy and uneasy.

This hall was specially built to show his subjects that he was the grandson of the sun god. During the Roman rule, he converted to Christianity and directly turned the hall into a chapel. When Muslims came, they chopped and chopped, and many reliefs were completely unrecognizable. When French soldiers came, they carved crosses on the columns and wrote their names on them.

We also visited the Aswan High Dam. Aswan is world-famous for its dam, and it was the world's largest dam before the Three Gorges Dam was built. The dam is 110 meters high, and the upstream reservoir is vast and misty, with the water and sky merging into one. The Nile River, which is cascading down 3,000 feet, is also quiet in the distance, like a dream.

The Nile River seems to have split an ancient dream into two dreams because of a dam. People standing on the dam seem to be holding two different colorful ribbons and dancing a dance of two worlds. It reminds Yunluo of the big skirt dance she saw on the Nile River not long ago. The dancers spun with the music, and when the music speeds up, the dancers' skirts also fly up, like a huge, colorful umbrella.

When the speed reached the highest point, the skirt actually separated into two layers, the upper layer slowly rising like a waterfall. It was truly ever-changing and dreamlike.

Yunluo didn’t know whether the construction of the Aswan Dam was inspired by this ancient dance, but Yunluo certainly felt the spinning in the wind of the dam, and even had a moment of meditation in the dizzy, rapid and dreamy fall: Yunluo was that dot.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Aswan is indeed a place that makes people think. Egypt's economy has benefited greatly from the construction of the dam, but it also comes at a price. A kind of time rhythm born from the ancient hydrology of the Nile River has completely disappeared with the rise of the dam. The ancient civilization of 6,000 years ago was actually not truly declared over until the construction of the dam in 1970.

The rhythm of the Nile River is directly related to the current calendar. Around 4000 BC, the Egyptians determined a year of 365 days because of the Nile River. In the Old Kingdom, when Sirius appeared on the horizon of Lower Egypt in the early morning, that is, when Sirius rose at the same time as the sun, which is called "heliacal rising" in astronomy.

The Nile River began to flood. The time of the flood was very accurate, just like a clock. The ancient Egyptians called this day the first day of the year. At that time, the priests who observed the sky closely watched the eastern horizon in the early morning to find the Sirius. "Ah, Sirius and the sun appeared at the same time!"

"The new year has begun!" When the tall, thin, dark-faced and pointed-nosed priest saw Sirius rising, he became excited. Soon the news spread from Lower Egypt to Upper Egypt, and then throughout Egypt.

By then, most of the crops on both sides of the Nile had been harvested, but they still needed to be cleaned; the boundary markers had been buried, but they still needed to be checked, and then, they would just have to wait quietly for the mighty Nile water to arrive, carrying with it the fertile soil.

Unlike the Yellow River, Indus River, and Euphrates River, which also gave birth to ancient civilizations, the Nile River floods very regularly. The ancient Egyptians quickly mastered when the floods would come and when they would recede. Every flood would bring a thick layer of silt, making the land in the river valley fertile, so that crops could be harvested three times a year.

But after the flood, the boundaries of the land were all submerged, and redefining the boundaries of the land required precise measurements, so a special class of people emerged in Egypt - land surveyors, who are the ancestors of modern surveying and mapping. (To be continued...)