10/18/2022 0 Comments Kayaking on the nileI can't believe we did this!!!!! I brought it up two nights before like "oh what if we could kayak on the Nile??" and then we found this great tour guide package and just did it! It was incredibly stressful getting there because we got stuck in Old Cairo in the morning as my phone's roaming stopped working and Brittany's phone only worked on wifi, so we had to find a taxi driver that would take us, who then tried upping his price. Then traffic was crazy and we didn't make it back to the hotel until the time we were supposed to already be at the kayak place, then we raced to get another uber and get to the kayaking place and were 40 minutes late because we had to drive through a school area and all of the kids were getting out. I stayed in contact with the tour guide people who were very understanding and let us still do the trip. Once we finally got there, the guide was so nice, and definitely not the same person from the website coordinating because she totally didn't care we were late.
We still had a full hour tour through the Nile, and it was so peaceful. It felt really nice being back near water, as many know I have been a fish since childhood, and I just feel so reset and at peace on the water. I kept thinking about my dad while we were kayaking, grateful that he taught me how to kayak, and wishing that I could share the moment with him. I took a video of us kayaking from a POV which has been a lot of fun to watch-back. Because both Brittany and I already know how to kayak, the tour guide was very relaxed with us and just kind of let us go and kayak down river. We stopped a few times and took photos, then headed back to the drop-off spot. It was such a special moment, and a very needed/relaxing moment during our trip. Everything to this point had been very go, go, go so just stepping back for awhile and being on the water was amazing.
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