Chapter 115 I don't know the year
When I left the scenic area, I saw a Chery taxi parked, shining brightly against the setting sun in the desert. Chery built an assembly factory in Egypt, and parts transported from China were assembled and sold in Egypt. I was excited to see the industrial products in my hometown far away in Africa.
Take a minibus to the Badra Inn Station, a small town in the east of Segara. There is no order to buy tickets in the town, so we have to follow the local customs and follow them.
I was spending time walking around the streets near the train station, planning to buy a few cans of beer and relax in the sleeper. Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo couldn't hide their things on their faces and looked around and searched. A little guy in a white shirt waved at Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo, pointing to the refrigerator next to him, and Yunluo asked, "Is there any beer?"
The little guy took out a can of drink that he didn't know what it was and said, "Ten yuan per bottle". Yunluo took it and saw that there were a lot of Arabic words, and the packaging was quite like beer, "Ten yuan per bottle, four cans".
The little guy smiled and shook his head like a pirate drum. "Eight cans" like a pirate. "Ten yuan plus this" Yun Luo took out two cans of beer and a bottle of Coke. The little devil pretended to lose a lot of money and "take it away six cans". Bargaining is really not Yun Luo's two strengths, so he was impatient first, so he took twenty pounds and took five cans, and then walked back.
On the platform, several Egyptian soldiers were sitting on the bench, and the army was not in a laziness. It was early after the hour and there was no sign of the train. It was late at around 9 o'clock in the evening, and a group of backpackers carried their bags and got on the bus. Nalan Seqi and Yun Luo finally got on the sleeper car for Aswan aswan.
This train is highly recommended to experience it. It is absolutely real-name system, only open to foreign passengers. It has a soft bedroom for two people. Although it looks worn out, it has a wash basin, dressing mirror, socket... In short, it is all available except toilets. The crew in Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo. No, it should be called a waiter.
He is a middle-aged man with a gray beard and medium-sized glasses, wearing a gray plaid vest and a bow. He looks meticulous and rather classical London-like, he will help you set up the dining table with a straightforward look and serve dinner. Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo each gave him a tip.
In the early years, the British Empire did not spend time making money from the colonies, and it really trained many Indian A San first-level waiters. No, it is much better than A San. A San's face in London exudes an inexplicable sense of superiority as "I am a Commonwealthian". The dinner is very rich and the taste is really uncommon. Although the packaging is similar to the machine food, the taste is very different.
For the sake of tomorrow, Nalan Shuqi and Yunluo held back their tears and swept away all of them. For Nalan Shuqi and Yunluo who can chew on the snow-capped mountains for several days, it's okay. But it is recommended that you eat it in Cairo before getting on the bus. Take out the beer to replenish the flavor in your mouth, and open the can and fill it with a few bites. The taste is pretty good.
I took a closer look at which ones were produced. A line of small English words fell into the eye and fainted! After dinner, the train waiter came to put a bed for Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo. It looked a bit complicated, but in fact, I didn't use the same extra tool, so I turned the two seats into upper and lower bunks.
The waiter made Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo's bed and quilts without saying a word. He could not see any disgust on him because of his bags all over the floor and the smell of smelly feet after running for a few days.
In the morning, the train waiter brought hot coffee and a simple meal. Then he made up his bed. Yunluo was quite used to this kind of homely life. The train drove on the fertile field of hope on the Nile River. He arrived in Aswan at around 10 o'clock. He first booked the ticket back to Luxor the day after tomorrow. He bought tickets here more civilized.
Men and women lined up in two teams. It felt so comfortable to arrive at Aswan. The sky was blue and the water was blue. Everything looked clean and comfortable than the driving **. There were also many fewer tourists. It was easy to find and not expensive to live here. After leaving the station, you walked up to the south along As-souq and walked up to the private shotal.
The reason why Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo chose to come to Aswan was mainly to experience the three-masted small sailboat, and also to go further south.
The hotel waiter Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo contacted a small sailboat that was about to go to Sehyu Island in the evening. Then he went to the bus station to check the schedule to arrive at Abu Sinbaile tomorrow morning.
The rest of the time I went to the temple of Isis for private visits. The temple of Isis was originally on the Philas Island of Phila. After the low dam in the lower reaches of Aswan in 1902, the water level rose. During the flood season, the temple of Isis on Phila Island would be half sunk underwater. At that time, you had to rent a small boat to visit the temple, between the rafting and the pillars of the temple corridor. The unique flavor was extremely popular.
Seventy years later, the United Nations did not treat itself as an outsider and felt distressed when it saw the temple soaked in water. While the new dam had just been repaired, it took eight years to cut the temple and move it to Agilkiaislind on Agikiya Island and assemble it.
Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo fought over Aswan Low Dam, and went to Shell, boarded the island of Ajikiya on a small boat with a shed, which was the Temple of Isis, with a ticket of 40 GBP. Isis was a very story-proven little widow, and her husband was her elder brother Oseris. At that time, the royal nobles had this problem.
It is said that it is strict family tutoring, but it is actually to protect the baby. It is not allowed to be seen by outsiders when playing in his own circle. A stinky hooligan like Dong Yong and Wan Xiliang who specializes in climbing trees and climbing walls to peek at people and take a bath had no chance. He caught him and dug out the dog's eyes on the spot. Oseris taught people to farm and run boats to tame the subjects, and became the first pharaoh.
It is comparable to the Shennong of Yunluochao. Isis's second brother is her brother-in-law Sai's characteristic th, greedy for money and lust. He killed his elder brother and wanted to usurp power and seize the throne and dominate his elder sister-in-law. Isis's own son is her nephew Holus, and when you get married in close relatives, you know that it is not a good-for-nothing lamp.
The relatives do not recognize their eyes and blink. They kill their uncle with their hands, which means that they avenge their father's murder. There is no entanglement of "tobe, ornottobe". The sun god Amon Mun thinks that this family is good. The good one is really good, the bad one is bad. Like the soap operas in Hong Kong and Taiwan, the plot is ups and downs, the characters are three-dimensional and plump. They are all geniuses, so they are all named gods.
The first courtyard in the temple is full of spectacularity, with two rows of exquisitely carved huge stone pillars, each with its own characteristics. The second courtyard is a mixed architecture of various sects, such as the birth hall, a product that was only found in the Ptolemy era. A Greek was unsure of the emperor of Egypt.
This hall was specially built to confess to his subjects that he was the grandson of the Sun God. During the Roman rule, he converted to Christianity and directly changed the hall to a chapel. When Muslims came, they cut swords and axes and chopped them, and many reliefs were beyond recognition. When French soldiers came, they engraved crosses and wrote names on the columns and visited here.
I walked along the way to Aswan High Dam. Aswan is famous all over the world because of its dam. It was still the world's number one before the Three Gorges Dam was built. The dam is 110 meters high, and the upper reservoir area is vast and the water and sky are the same. The Nile River, which flows down three thousand feet straight, is also quiet in the distance, like a dream.
The Nile River seemed to divide an ancient dream into two dreams because a dam seemed to stand on the dam, as if holding two different colors in hand and practicing a dance of two heavens. Yunluo recalled the big skirt dance I saw in the Nile River not long ago. As the music rotated gracefully, as the speed of the music accelerated, the dancer's skirt also flew up, like a huge, colorful umbrella.
When the speed reached the highest point, the skirt was separated into two layers, and the layer above slowly rose, like a waterfall, which was really ever-changing, like a dream.
Yunluo didn't know whether the construction of the Aswan Dam was inspired by this ancient dance, but indeed, Yunluo felt the rotation in the wind of the dam, and even caused a moment of meditation in a dizzy, rapid and dreamy drop: Yunluo is that dot.
Aswan does make people meditate. Egypt's economy has benefited a lot from the construction of the dam, but it also comes at a cost. A hydrology born in the Nile River - the time rhythm. As the dam rises, it completely disappeared. The ancient civilization six thousand years ago actually ended until 1970.
The rhythm of the Nile River is directly related to the current calendar. Around 4,000 BC, the Egyptians determined that the Nile River was 365 days. In the ancient kingdom era, when Sirius appeared on the horizon of Lower Egypt in the early morning, that is, Sirius and the sun rose at the same time - astronomically called "ascending the sun".
The Nile River began to flood. The time of flooding was very accurate, just like a clock. The ancient Egyptians called this day the first day of the year. At that time, the priests who observed the astronomical phenomena closely watched the eastern horizon in the morning to find the Sirius. "Ah, Sirius and the sun appeared at the same time!"
"The new year has begun!" When Sirius rose, with tall and thin figure, dark face and pointed nose, the priest's spirit was excited, and soon the news spread from Lower Egypt to Upper Egypt, and then throughout Egypt.
At that time, most of the crops on both sides of the Nile River should be harvested, but they should be cleaned up again; all the signs used for boundary surveys should be buried, but they should be inspected again, and then quietly wait for the vast Nile River water to come with fertile soil.
Unlike the Yellow River, Indus River and Euphrates River, which also gave birth to ancient civilizations, the Nile River floods are very regular. When the flood comes and retreats every year, the ancient Egyptians quickly grasped it. Each flood will bring a thick layer of silt, making the land in the valley fertile and the crops can ripen three times a year.
Chapter completed!