The car picked us up around nine to go to the boat. But first we went to Esna temple. Esna has temple was far under ground and we had to go down three flights of stairs to go down to it. The reason Esna temple was so far down is because it was built on the same level as the Nile. When the inundation happened, more and more silt (fine sand) kept piling up, making a wall. Then many, many years later, archeologists dug up the temple, but they only found about two, rooms. The rest they predicted was under the houses that were on top of the wall of silt and if they wanted to figure out if there was any more of Esna, they will have to buy the land to do further construction. After Esna temple, we drove to the boat. After we got on the boat, we had lunch. Then, we sailed down the river, Sam steered a little and docked. There, we went on a walk and went to a small village. I got to try on traditional Egyptians women clothing and I got to dance with these cute, little kids. After the village, we got back on the boat, had dinner, and got to bed.
Eliza Green 