A sparkling Nile awaited us as we boarded the Feluccas in the late afternoon - 4.30pm – for lunch. Awnings and been hung from the lateen sail boom over a table set with fine white linen clothes, sparkling glasses and flowers. With eight guests to a boat we were not under sail but roped together in a convoy of six vessels and towed behind a small but handsomely decorated tug boat.
The food was delicious and all served by a waiter in an immaculate evening suit. It was simply wonderful to sit back and relax and drift past the Temple of Luxor, that we would be visiting after lunch – pretty magical because we got there at sunset – watching other Feluccas against the setting sun, the fisherman on the far bank pulling their nets for the last time, a group of boys splashing in the shallows to shrieks of pleasure and camels and cows grazing in the warm sunshine.
I hope that conjures up an image of this idyllic lunch on the Felucca!
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