ELEPHANTINE ISLAND | NUBIAN VILLAGE Most relaxed place in Egypt in Aswan on the Nile River

Hi, I'm Angela. And I'm Jeff. And we're Pure Detour. In the summer of 2021, we quit our jobs to travel the world full-time. This month, we're traveling around Egypt to explore the beaches, cruise the Nile, and see the legendary ancient sites. Day 5 of our boat tour here. We have skipped out on all of the excursions for Day 5 here, so we're going to work our way over to Elephantine Island. Check out some highlights of Day 4 of our cruise while we make our way to Elephantine Island. The boat stayed docked in the Aswan area, and we checked out a few highlights, including the Aswan Dam, the Soviet Egypt Friendship Monument, and the Philae Temple. We have made it over to Elephantine Island. We have checked into Kafana Guesthouse. Yeah, this place is amazing. Check out the view of the Nile that we have behind us. So right now, we're just going to chill out, relax for a little bit. We're going to have dinner here later, and then we'll introduce you to Kafana. You're going to love him. We have come out now. We're going to have dinner here at the Kafana Guesthouse. I have ordered a camel tagine, and Angela has ordered a chicken tagine. These look awesome. We're going to dig in right now. So if you saw our Moroccan videos, you know that we are familiar with the tagine, but this is the Nubian-style tagine, which we've never tried before. This is the chicken one. We've got this tender chicken, and it's very delicately spiced, as well as it's got this herbiness from, I think this is cilantro that is all over it. It's really tasty. And this is the camel tagine, and I'm going to say that we've had camel this whole time here, because this looks exactly like it did back when we were in Ergunab. So let's see. Camel's delicious. It's got this great texture to it. It's not a chewy piece of meat at all. It's great flavor. Yeah, I would never know that I was eating camel if I didn't know what was in front of me right now. It's fantastic. The tagine also comes with potatoes and rice and a salad and, my favorite thing, a big bowl of tahini to put all over everything. And as promised, we're going to introduce you to Kafana from Kafana's Guesthouse. This is Kafana. This is his amazing place. Kafana, will you tell us a little bit about why you started this guesthouse? I was before working another guesthouse, like work hard, and some guest, he told me, why work hard for something not belong for you? After that, I think to make my place right now. Now I have my guesthouse here in the island. That's amazing. And you'll see that Kafana takes amazing care of his guests here. So if you're ever here in Aswan, come to Elephantine Island. The vibe is unbelievable and Kafana will take amazing care of you. So we had a great rest last night at Kafana Guesthouse. It's super relaxing here on this little island. Yeah, we're going to go take a walk around right now this morning before it gets too hot out. Not really sure what we expect to find or see. So let's go find out. So we're just running around through here trying to follow Google Maps where it wants us to go. That's a bunch of tiny little alleyways. It's actually quite cool. So Elephantine Island is quite small. You can walk it east to west in maybe 7 to 10 minutes. You can walk it north to south in maybe about 20 minutes. Kafana says that about 6,000 people live here. And we have stopped for a drink here at a place called the Bob Marley Cafe. It's funny that we've seen a lot of references to Bob Marley on this island. I'm not quite sure why. But you can see that it definitely has a chilled, laid-back, Bob Marley kind of vibe. So we have determined here that if you want to come to Egypt on holiday and you want to relax and not be bothered with it all and meet the friendliest people you'll ever meet, come to Elephantine Island. It's amazing. Nobody bothers you at all. Everybody is super friendly, super helpful. It's a great little place to come hang out. So one thing I'm noticing about here on Elephantine Island is that it has a very distinctly rustic and rural vibe. There are no cars. There are no paved roads. And it's a huge contrast to Aswan just across the river, which is surprisingly a really, really big city. So it's kind of nice to come here and get some quiet. One very strange thing about here on Elephantine Island is everybody who we've spoken to, they ask us, of course, the first question, where are you from? And when I say Canada, the first thing they respond with is Canada dry. And I don't know who told them about Canada dry or what that means or what they know about it, but it just seems odd that every person responds with that when I tell them I'm from Canada. So that is going to wrap our time up here on Elephantine Island. We're going to go jump back in the room right now and have some showers. And finish packing up because tonight we are boarding an overnight sleeper train to Cairo, which I'm really looking forward to. It should be exciting. Check it out in the next video. Bye!