2 buses and a train

It was a crappy overnight bus ride back to Cairo, but we didn't expect any thing more than that, so it was okay. We had to change buses in Alexandria, but managed to hop off of one and jump right onto one leaving for Cairo. Back in the capital, we went straight to the train station and bought tickets for Aswan later that evening. We took a dorm bed at the hotel we stayed at before, had a shower and slept for a few hours. We hadn't realised how tired we were! We had lunch at our favourite shwarma shop, Felfela, then spent a few hours on the internet. We had some cold beers, more shwarma for dinner, then headed to the train station.

We had booked a 1st class ticket in Nefertiti class, where the cars are supposed to be the newest and cleanest. Our cabin was air-conditioned with 3 seats facing 3 more seats, and plent of room in between. The only strange thing is that the seats don't recline. You'd think that 1st class overnight would be a sleeper, but the only sleeper trains are the tourist trains and quite expensive. But the seats were large and comfortable, so we settled in for the 14 hour journey south to Aswan.