Early this morning,  cruisers were offered the optional excursion of hot air ballooning.   Since we had done that in Kenya,  we opted out and slept in!  We did wake in time to see them in the air,  across the Nile from the ship.  The air was smoky from the burning of the stubble of the harvested sugar cane fields.

When they returned,  the Anteras was able to start sailing north,  about 3 hours to dock at Qena for our excursion to Dandara Temple.  This temple is too Hathor, Goddess of

This is 1 temple with a relief of Cleopatra and her son Ptolomy the 15th, the last eFamily dynasty of the Egyptian kingdom