Egypt Day 6-- Island Village of Bisaw, Sandstone Quarries & the Temple of Kom Ombo

After breakfast we took a small boat from our Dahabiya to a cute little island village. We visited their fields and saw the different crops they were growing. We visited a house of one of the locals and watched them make bread. We sampled it and it was pretty good! Ayman got some to take back to the boat, which we enjoyed for dinner. We didn't stay long and got back on the boat and sailed past the ancient quarry where the ancient Egyptians got all of the sandstone for the temples! That is a long way to haul those heavy stones!! (In one of my pictures it shows the size of one of the blocks they cut to use for the temple!! HUGE!! How did they do that?????) We then stopped to explore the Kom Ombo temple which was very interesting... It is in the Greco Roman style and like all the others is symmetrical but with two entrances instead of just one.  There are two entrances, two halls and two sanctuaries dedicated to Horus and the crocodile god Sobek.  Ayman is so interesting, and has several stories to explain things, "In case you didn't like the first one!"   I am amazed at the amount of stray/wild dogs they have in this country! Allison took bread from the boat everywhere we went and fed them. It was a slower day today, which was nice!