There is a beautifully colored temple here is Esna, the reason for the stop here.  It is from the Greco Roman period.  There is a team from Germany working of restoring the color,  cleaning off millenia of dirt and soot. 

They have finished the inside and out in amazingly beautiful!  Each column on the Hall of columns has a different capital!

Colors restored on wall motifs

Esna is also one of the places where alabaster is hand carved and is something i wanted as a souvenir from this trip to Egypt.  I found a lovely example,  a small cup I can put a tea light in,  with much character! 

The rest of our day today,  we sail farther upstream toward Aswan.