Day 18 - Tuesday November 11, 2025 - Sailing on Lake Nassar

By Ellen Outten


Wayne and I both took it easy today and didn’t go on the excursion.  If we were in Mexico, you might call it Montezuma’s revenge.  But since our guide, Sam, tells us that everything here in Egypt took place FIRST, I’m going to call it Cleopatra’s revenge.  


It started immediately after lunch in Sunday at a restaurant inside the new Egyptian museum.  The flight Monday morning was touch and go but I made it through without embarrassment.  I’m not the only person, in fact, more than half of our group of 24 are “indisposed “.   

I came equipped with a prescription from my GP and while it didn’t do everything needed, our guide carries something he said will do the trick.  His mother is a pharmacist and prescribed them.  He carries them on all his tours.  So I’m hoping that tomorrow I’ll feel like doing the morning excursion.  Time will tell, but at this moment, things are feeling “less fluid”.

When we boarded yesterday, after a very small lunch, I took a nap from 2:30 until 7:30. When I woke up, Wayne had come down with the same ailment and wasn’t going to dinner.  I agreed, took two Tylenol PM and went back to sleep until this morning.  I figure, about 15 hours sleep all together.

So we stayed back and watched the group depart for the Kalabasha Temple a short five minute boat ride away.  I stood on the brow of our ship and took a few pictures.  







Speaking of our ship, it’s very clean and they are always cleaning and mopping floors.  We’re on deck three in a forward cabin which is bigger than Viking standards.  The shower is big enough and there’s a sofa and two chairs.  Quite comfortable.

We’re on this boat, the MS Prince Abbas, for four nights so I can just stay put if I need to.

Right now I’m writing this from the 4th and top deck which is all lounge and bar.  There’s a beautiful canvas cover overhead and there’s a nice breeze and sunny skies.

Our guide held his own lecture for us at 11 am this morning and we went.  It helped that the meeting room was next door to our stateroom bathroom.

He reads hieroglyphics and gave us a talk on the cartushes of the Pharaohs.   It was very informative.  At the end he spelled my name in hieroglyphics and told me the meanings.  Suffice it to say. I’m fearless and generous.   Works perfectly for me.





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