Aswan Botanical Garden

... .  When the guide provided details on how a British general Kitchener confiscated his family's land and converted it to a botanical garden, Amy visibly cringed.  Amy was from the UK and is heart-fully sorry for anything and everything the ...

... later told us that headlights impair the vision of other drivers. Interesting. Our last day in Aswan, we hired a felucca to take us to a botanical garden island. We spent almost five hours there laying on the park benches, absorbing the tranquility ...

... wind  and they need to tug us along. Luckily we made it to Kitchener's Island  where there its all basically a botanical garden. We wander along  looking at familiar and unfamilar plants, have a sit by the nile and  rest and play ...

... The mystery of the missing captain solved, we then continued our journey by sailing to Kitchener's Island. This is the famous botanical garden which Lord Kitchener made on the island which was presented to him after his service in the Sudan. He ...

... sense of humor. Anyway, I have to wrap things up. We spent our afternoon at Kitchener Island, where there is a phenomenal botanical garden and whiled away more time watching the Nile lovingly, including a good hour sipping sweet mint tea and an ...

... city of Luxor. We then took a smaller sailboat to two islands in the middle of the Nile, the first being a small botanical garden island called Kitcheners Island and then we went to Elephantine Island, which has the remains of some old temples and is ...

... meant that they also mumified crocodiles and we got to see one. After Kom Ombo the boat headed on to Aswan, the major city of upper egypt.  There we visited a quarry that held an unfinished obelisk that would have been the tallest in the ...

... was very pretty, and we were very comfortable lounging around on the mattress deck.   Kitchner Island was a let down, a botanical garden that was rather underwhelming, and we didn't have enough time to get off and see the ruins at Elephantine ...

... person.  Joined by a Korean girl.  Spent 2 hours sailing on the Nile around Elephantine Island, Tomb of the Nobles, botanical garden.  Fantastic sunset.  Went to a nice dinner at Aswan Moon.  Got scammed there out of E₤90 ...

... and the Temple of Philae. Sail on board a felucca, a typical Egyptian sailboat, and view Kitchener's Botanical Garden and the Aga Khan Mausoleum. Overnight in Aswan. We also toured a 'traditional' Nubian village & rode camels. Blackie ...