We stayed a night at Ana kato Nubian Houses, before flying from Aswan to Cairo . This is like a boutique hotel comprising of 5 bedrooms . There is another premise which had 7 bedrooms under the same hotel. The road into the Nubian village before the old dam of Aswan, was not a tarred road . We were pretty skeptical at the state of the hotel because of the access road into the village was dicey . Nubians are an ethnic race of people who speak their own language . This language is only oral not written . Nubian lands are in Southern Egypt that stretches from Aswan to Northern Sudan . When the Egyptian government build the resevoir and new dam at Aswan , much of the Nubian lands were submerged underwater. They goverment had to relocate the Nubian people to villages and other areas in Egypt . Of course,the Nubian people are not happy with this as they were traditionally fishermen .

Some of the Nubians relocated to Sudan . Nubians are dark skin ( like Africans ) , broad nose and have very curly hair more akin to Africans than Arabs .

There were many birds . Really an enchanting place. The rooms had modern conveniences like hot water ,flushed toilets and was very clean Aswan is chilly around 15C . Everyone told us that it will be warmer in Aswan as compared to Cairo but that is not true !

I am writing a longer blog because I m laying in bed in Saliha’s flat in Bahrain hahaha. Flight early tomorrow morning from Bahrain to Doha to catch the Malaysia Airlines flight from Doha back to KL ( sigh ).