Camel rides, Abu Sinbel and essence, lol

I rode the camel and yes I have a pic, which I will post as soon as I can. It had one hump and it was a lot like riding a horse I guess, except you are higher up. We were really only on the camels for like 15 or 20 min. These kids, the camel handlers, walked along with us and they were really funny. My camel's name was Lulu. We rode the camels to a Nubian village where we went inside a Nubian house and learned about their culture and customs, but it mainly felt like a tourist trap. They'd tell you to walk around and check things out and take pictures and then as soon as you took a picture they'd stick their hand out for money. And whatever you gave them wouldn't be enough. A few people got henna tattoos there. The one interesting thing I learned was that their wedding custom is to have a 7 day wedding celebration, with henna tattoos and dancing and eating. And then the bride and groom have a 45 day honeymoon and it is forbidden for them to leave the house. The bride's mom brings them 3 meals a day for the 45 days. At the end, they go swim in the Nile together, and then they go to the doctor to see if she is pregnant. If she's not, they repeat the 45 day honeymoon. And if she still doesn't get pregnant, she can leave the man, if it's his fault, or he can take another wife, if it is her fault and she can either choose to stay or to leave. How crazy is that?!
Today we woke up at 3am and drove to Abu Sinbel. I got to watch the sunrise over the desert and it was pretty spectacular. On the way there we crossed the Aswan damn, which is the second biggest in the world, after the one that the Chinese just built. It made Nassar Lake, which rose so high that it drown a bunch of super old temples. So UNESCO and the Egyptian government took some of the temples (Abu Sinbel, being the biggest and most important) and moved them piece by piece to higher ground. So the 2 temples we visited today were underwater at one time and it took 9 years to break them down into smaller movable pieces and rebuild them exactly as they were. Again, how crazy is that?! We got there at 7am and were one of the first tourist buses to arrive. It's a good thing too because soon the place was crawling with tourists and it got really hot.
After that we went to a perfume place. I guess Egypt is where they make all the essence that is used to make most European perfumes. The essence isn't diluted with alcohol or anything else. It's basically just the juice from the flowers that is stuck in the ground for 6 months to ferment and then sold. They let us smell a bunch of different blends, and then told us which European perfumes they were sold as. They had Beautiful, Channel no. 5, Hugo Boss and a bunch more. And it really did smell just like them. They also had therapeutic aromas like sandal wood, musk and Frankincense. With the Frankincense you put a couple drops in a cup of hot water and it clears up your sinuses right away. Also, they said that if you smell it before bed it will help you not snore. We tested a bunch of these different blends and scents and I'm probably going to smell for like a week because they are really strong.
Our boat sets sail at 4pm. We are going to head up the Nile to Luxor, stopping at temples along the way. Our boat has a pool and a bar and ac, so it should be pretty relaxing and nice. I only wish it had wifi, lol. I guess I'll probably have to wait until I get to London for that. Can't wait for London! I need to pick up a few things that I forgot, like a sweatshirt and some liquid laundry soap.