High Dam Aswan

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We were up at 4:00am today to catch our early morning flight to Aswan. We are going to spend the next three days sailing down the Nile River. This area is called Upper Egypt, because the Nile River flows down to Cairo. In Aswan, 75% of the houses of government sudsidized, the people who live in these houses pay only 20 pounds/ …

Well... What a totes amazeballs 9 days in Egypt. 40 new friends, amazing new experiences and sightseeing and a bit of trouble in the belly. Our first rule of Egypt – never trust a ****. Anyways a few months ago we got a status update on Facebook from a travel company over here offering a 9 day trip to Egypt for 100 quid staying in 4 and 5 …

The train arrived in Aswan at 8.30am on the dot and we were met by our guide, Ahmed (a really nice guy and a fantastic guide). Everything so far in Egypt has been very timely and everyone sticks to time which Nuwan of course found a little challenging to keep up with.

Unlike Cairo, Aswan is beautiful, much cleaner and greener - a pretty …

Our adventure in Aswan started at 4am!

Barely awake, we made our way downstairs, grabbed the packed breakfast from our hotel and headed into the police convoy. Yes, that's right. You read it correctly, we had to get chauffered by (what seemed like the whole Aswan police department) to Abu Simbel because the goverment required all tourist …

Sorry people about the delay there has been a lack of internet access and also time to write; I am exhausted! Right now I am sitting on the top deck of Tosca (or osca as we call it because the T does not light up on the side of the boat sign) in Aswan the sun has just gone down and rope light on the side rails are beginning to illuminate the deck. …

We wake after a fitful night’s sleep of rolling around in our beds aboard the sleeper train. Just after 10:00pm we departed Cairo and now we are in Aswan, in the south of Egypt. We’ve been awake for a while but the train is late into the station, probably because of the many stops we’ve made. We lurch around in our cabins because …

Day 3: Aswan....Overnight train to Aswan, is a good cheap way to get there...about 14 hours in a sleeper cabin which i had to myself. Old, a little dingy, disgusting bathrooms and terrible airflow (smoking is permitted everywhere!) i suggest if you have the cash, FLY! the meals were a sorry excuse for food, service was terrible and of course a TIP …

... island that you get to by boat. This place was a typical styled temple again with excellent carvings. After this we visited the High Dam 17km south of Aswan. The dam is 3.6km wide and 110 meters high. 451 people had died by the time it was finished ...

... trip cost me 5 le in baksheesh, a small price to pay for that memory.    Onwards to the Aswan High Dam, Nassers legacy to Egypt, it is an immense structure, in keeping with the other immense structures which abound in Egypt. One has to think, ...

... back to Aswan, we visited the Temple of Isis (Philae Temple). Philae Temple was also moved and reconstructed when the Aswan High Dam was built and valley was flooded. The temple was moved to a different island which was then sculpted to look ...

... : the Egyptians were acute astronomers to achieve precision that today's engineers could not match in this case. The immense Aswan High Dam that flooded many historical sites and much of Nubia now provides the water and electricity that Egypt needs to ...

... can be traced back to 3100 BC!  The land of Nubia is a desert divided by the Nile and in the 1960s the Aswan high dam was constructed here creating Lake Nasser (coincidentally the name of the Egyptian ruler at the time...or not)  The lake ...

... way Trump has done with modern America. During it's famous rescue by UNESCO from the devouring waters of Lake Nasser as the Aswan High Dam stemmed the Nile and flooded ancient Nubia, the temple of Abu Simbel was sliced into 1041 pieces and painstakingly ...

... bit for each activity since everyone has their own itinerary, but in general you are with the same 5-6 people.  Today was High Dam, Phillae Temple, and (optional) Nubian village.  I was not going to do the Nubian village and instead go to ...

... out of a mountainside, was moved in the 1960's to protect it from being flooded by Lake Nasser when the Aswan High Dam was created. This was a massive operation requiring worldwide assistance. Five very sleepy Busabout people checked into the Aswan ...

... met by Mamoud my guide for the next 4 days throughout Aswan and Luxor. Upon arrival he showed me the High Dam built by the first president of Egypt in 1960 and finished in 1971 by Sadat. It required USSR funding to complete the project, measures 500km ...

... . I think he got one of the biggest tips as we were completely out of small bills at this point.   The High Dam remains a fairly controversial project, as I assume most dams are (sponsors aside), since the rising waters hide so much valuable and ...