Sailboat on the Banks of the Nile
by Mark Tisdale
Title
Sailboat on the Banks of the Nile
Artist
Mark Tisdale
Medium
Photograph - Photo
Description
During my adventure in Egypt, I spent two nights camped on a Felucca on the banks of the famous River Nile. It was truly a surreal experience.
Even with the sails furled for the evening (we were preparing camp), there's something majestic about these old work horse sailboats known in the middle east as feluccas. These days, it's largely a tourist experience to cruse the nile between Aswan and Luxor this way. But once upon a time, the Nile was the interstate of Egypt. Everything that went between upper and lower egypt traveled this way. And it was a great method. From what we were told the prevailing winds and the currents go in opposite directions. So, boats could use their sails to go in one direction and the current to go in the other.
It certainly wasn't as swift as taking the train, which was its own interesting experience, but there was something magial about cruising from Aswan to Luxor on a traditional Egyptian sailboat by day and sleeping beneath a canvas tent on its decks by night. So magical that I still look at my photos and think it may have been a dream that I somehow captured with my camera. Doesn't it look dreamy with those cotton puff skies above the ancient Nile?
Uploaded
January 10th, 2013
Statistics
Viewed 416 Times - Last Visitor from New York, NY on 04/15/2024 at 9:20 AM
Embed
Share
Sales Sheet