Day 7 – Out of the Desert

Stage 7 Luxor to Idfu. 117k. 5hrs

The Temples of Luxor are a site to behold and the rest days we had there gave my ribs and legs a rest.

Gentle green fields replaced the city as we headed south along the Nile Valley. Bananas, sugar cane, and alfalfa fields dotted the road side. We were swept along by generous tail winds.

It was the ability to grow long grained crops and work fields with domesticated large animals that spawned the first civilizations in this Fertile Crescent and allowed our ancestors to begin to multiply more rapidly. See Wikipedia for more on this.

A crowd of roughly 100 gathered to try and help with our bikes, offer chairs and bring hot tea. After we headed south again to our lunch stop on the Nile. A baker offered me bread out of the oven and fresh fruit stands could be found along way.

Kids at a Coke-Stop . We actually had hot coffee and tea but all stops are generally called “Coke-Stops.”

I made it a point to stop at the Coke-Stops. Five of us did with our police and ambulance escort.