Photos of Egyptian Cruise Boats, arabaya, faluka, railway engines.

These various modes of transport were all spotted and photographed around Luxor and the River Nile whilst we were on our Egyptian Holiday.

Egypt - Luxor - River Nile Cruise Boats, Buses and Barges and train Photographs: February 2006. Whilst on holiday in Luxor we got around quite a lot and spotted several interesting "mechanical..." things to photograph - arabayas (the local buses), caleches and a nice old Lister engine which was being used to pump water into the fields for irrigation. We also found a couple of railway engines plus some carriages to photo at Luxor station and out in the countryside several narrow gauge railway wagons loaded up with cane and later we were lucky enought to also see the small engine.

There are of course lots of different boats and barges etc. moving around on the River Nile at Luxor - needless to say there are quite a few photos of them below. Also we enjoyed a day trip from Luxor up to Quena Dendarah on a small cruise ship and we have several photographs of some of the boats and barges seen along the way as well as several faluka.

These photos were taken at Luxor's Railway Station early evening in February 2006.
We were actually invited up into the signal box and had a look round there too.

The first two of the above photos are of loaded sugar cane wagons and later on our walk we were lucky enough to see the engine too. The small engine on the right was busy shunting wagons - seen along the Nile on our Dendarah trip

The Caleches roam Luxor's streets braving the impatient taxis and coaches whilst touting for customers.
The majority of them are beautifully painted and decorated - around 11PM many of them head home - we counted 40 of them racing along towards Karnak one evening.

Arabaya are Luxor's local buses and can be seen racing around both sides of the River - they are actually pick-up trucks with a fairly low metal or wooden cabin. Some of them have really nice decorative paintwork on the outside -inside the seats are simply wooden benches.
Arabaya's are the main way of getting around for local people - the fares are just a few Egyptian Pounds - for instance you can get from the Worker's Ferry on the West Bank to the Valley of the Queens Ticket Office for 5LE.

Above are just a few more photos of things we saw whilst wandering around Luxor's West Bank canals and countryside.

This final part are photos of some of the large variety of boats which we saw in the Luxor area of the River Nile -
from small falukas to various barges to the towering cruise-hotel boats.

These photos are of some of the large Hotel or Cruise boats which populate the River Nile.
One morning in Luxor we counted 8 of them moored alongside each other - lucky the river Nile is so wide.

The first two above are photos of what the locals were calling falukas
and the other two are two of the Worker's Ferry boats which criss-cross The Nile at Luxor.

These small boats are used as ferries - you can hire one for around 10 to 20LE to cross the river instead of using the normal ferry.
They will also take you for longer trips down the Nile - for example a several hours trip to Crocodile Island etc.

There all shapes and sizes of barges moving around on The Nile
carrying anything from sugar cane to tractors to general rubbish.

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