Wake up early and go for a swim (it's already getting hot). Try to lay in the sun but the bugs are to bad. Hang out until about ten when the rest of the boat starts to come to life. The boat launches about 10:30 and we just drift down the Nile without sails while breakfast is prepared. After breakfast we raise the sail but there is no wind so we continue to drift down the Nile.
Shortly after noon we beach at Kom Ombo Temple. the temple complex isn't particularly large, but there are a lot of well preserved carvings and some still show color. More interesting to me was the rows of stalls for selling souvineers - all deserted. This is the most potent reminder that I've seen that tourism is down, and thus a reminder of why. Somehow it's much more shocking that all the armed guards everywhere.
Sometime after sunset we give up and beach for the night. With the exception of about fifteen minutes right after leaving Kom Ombo we have spent the entire day drifting - at least we wanted to go down stream...
