Sight seeing by carriage in Aswan or Luxor

For the arrangements for a trip of my parents to Egypt I received from my father a feature from a newspaper: "The luxourous tour". Ekkehard Eichler describes beautiful tours with Ragib, a coach driver from Luxor, who drove the journalist across the suq, along mosques, to the shoemaker Yussuf, to Salim, the snake charmer, to the blacksmith. Instead to canvass papyrus-, parfume- or carpet shops, Ragib had invited him for tea and a shisha, they drove across the countryside, crossed to Theben West the next day.
Beside the article was also a photo from Ragib (man with the white turban), which made it easy to find him and ask for a similar tour for my father (man with the blue turban) and mother. They have been enthusiastic about the tour and I was avid about his well-attended horse (picture above: left and middle, Telephone Ragib in Luxor: 002 010 372 08 10).

That's how I got the idea, to get recommendations from Brooke Hospital in Aswan for coach drivers who care well about their horses and should be supported. (This website is new and I will be very grateful, if you also - the guests in Aswan or Luxor - will help with comments about your experiences. If you want to add someone from Aswan or Luxor, please send a photo also. If you have made bad experiences with someone, please tell us!)

Brooke Hospital recommends the men below and also wants to emphasize: "...visitors can help in animal welfare:
- discourage fast driving
- refuse to tip the main who is quickly wearing out his horse
- refuse to travel more than four to a cab
- if you encourage sensible quiet driving the horse will remain sound and well.
- please don't ride more than four to a carriage.
- if you see a horse in discomfort take its registration number and telephone the clinic.
Brooke Aswan tel : 097 / 231 05 33

Khaled Mohamed, Aswan
Telephone: ??? / 233 06 23

 

Ahmed Mansour, Aswan
Telephone: 012 / 632 63 98

 

Adel Rekaby, Aswan
Telephone: 018 / 071 92 32

 
Karieb Labib, Aswan
Telephone: 012 / 709 99 86		 Ahmed Mohamed Rashwan,
Aswan, Tel: ??? / 226 21 61		 ???, Aswan
Telephone: ???

 

 

More informations about Brooke Hospital:
http://www.thebrooke.org/

From their website:
About Brooke
The Brooke is the UK's leading overseas equine welfare charity and our aim is to improve the lives of horses, donkeys and mules working in the poorest parts of the world. These animals form the backbone of the economy in many developing countries, supporting countless poor communities where many people earn less than a dollar a day.
The Brooke's mobile vet teams and community animal health workers, and our partner organisations worldwide, provide free treatment to animals and train animal owners, local healers, farriers, saddlers, feed sellers, harness and cart makers. We currently operate across nine countries in Asia, Africa, Central America and the Middle East...
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