{"id":184,"date":"2008-01-01T22:27:41","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T19:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/?p=184"},"modified":"2008-01-01T22:27:41","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T19:27:41","slug":"kom-ombo-to-aswan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/2008\/01\/01\/kom-ombo-to-aswan\/","title":{"rendered":"Kom Ombo to Aswan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we slept, the boat chugged up river towards Kom Ombo. It arrived some time during the night and moored somewhere nearby. Early in the morning, it sailed to Kom Ombo itself.<\/p>\n<p>We were there shortly after sunrise. The light was nice, the air was cold and the crowds were sparse. Perfect.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"komombo600x370.jpg\" id=\"image181\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/komombo600x370.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is in pretty good shape.<\/p>\n<p>Sunlight peaking in through columns and such made for some neat highlights<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lightedfigure480x338.jpg\" id=\"image182\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/lightedfigure480x338.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From there is was a short sail to Aswan harbor. The cruise boats are stacked up 3 and 4 deep in places. Not a particularly pleasant sight, really. But luckily there are other things to keep ones eyes occupied.<\/p>\n<p>The tombs of the nobles is across the river on the west bank<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image185\" alt=\"nobles.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/nobles.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And there are always the pretty boats<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"boats.jpg\" id=\"image186\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/boats.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and the not so pretty boats<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"oldboat.jpg\" id=\"image187\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/oldboat.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next up, the high dam and Philae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we slept, the boat chugged up river towards Kom Ombo. It arrived some time during the night and moored somewhere nearby. Early in the morning, it sailed to Kom Ombo itself. We were there shortly after sunrise. The light was nice, the air was cold and the crowds were sparse. Perfect. It is in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}