Dreamy Visions from the Train – Aswan to Luxor

Traveling by train in Egypt may seem like an uncomfortable inconvenience to most, especially between Cairo and Luxor, an overnight journey that may take up to 8 hours! But the opportunity to travel the few hours between Aswan and Luxor is one I deeply enjoy, with the lush River Nile paralleling the tracks on one side, and breathtaking desert and mountain (gebel) landscapes on the other.

For me, it is a joy to see the sunsets on these travels, snapping photos through the dirty windows, leaving it all to chance as to what image I might capture… they are like dreams, and today’s was especially vivid:

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