OctPoWriMo6: Exotic

We landed in Egypt, too excited to sleep, with backpacks, travel guides, ready for the overnight train trip clacking south to Luxor. We slept hunkered over on fixed wooden seats throughout the night to awake to morning in a land of palm trees and desert, passing small walled villages, men in long robes and colorful shawls, who walked beside donkey-powered carts and fields of alfalfa, White Nile