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Aswan
... . The dam is 3.6km wide and 110 meters high. 451 people had died by the time it was finished in 1971. The lake 'Lake Nasser' it created is the world's biggest artificial lake. After the lake we headed to the Unfinished Obelisk that lies in an ancient ...
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A Lesson on How to be Remembered
... was that this whole temple complex had been moved in the sixties from a point 65 metres lower down, prior to the creation of Lake Nasser. On the way back to Aswan, we visited the Temple of Isis (Philae Temple). Philae Temple was also moved and ...
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Water
... Now the silt is filling the lake, limiting the life of the dam. Water-use divided between Nile River countries favors the militarily-strong Egypt, who threatens a fight if upstream countries try to use more water than Egypt thinks they ...
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Hot Hot Hot
... 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 permanently flooded ancient temples and ...
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Does a felucca passenger **** in the woods?
... 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 ...
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Aswan, Abu Simbel And A Felucca Down The Nile.
... Ramses II which he had carved 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 ...
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Now in Upper Egypt, which is south of Lower Egypt
... Philae, which is a really nice and not too big temple. This temple, along with two others, was flooded during the building of Lake Nasser and the dam, but a huge UNESCO project, took them to pieces and assembled them on higher ground, so we can still ...
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NILE JUMPING
... Kadesh. The temples were relocated in their entirety in 1968 to an artificial hill in Abu Simbel on the western bank of Lake Nasser. The Abu Simbel temples were incredible, and I couldn't help but feel awed as I looked upon the gigantic stone ...
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Aswan
... with mannequins representing scenes from daily life. There are also displays showing how temples were saved from the waters of Lake Nasser through an international rescue effort which moved them to higher ground. Upon our return to the ...
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Off to a smokey start
... three gorges dam of China was created, the High Dam of Aswan had created the largest man-made reservoir of water on the planet (Lake Nasser). Next we visited the Temple of Isis on the island of Philae. This is one of the temples that had been ...
Lake Nasser Map
- Fellahs Tent
- Magic Horizon Hot Air Balloons
- Mausoleum of Aga Khan
- Abu Simbel
- Monastery of St. Simeon
- Aswan Botanical Garden
- Aswan Market
- Nile Exploration Corp.
- Nubian Museum
- Nubian Village
- Elephantine Island
- Philae Island
- Sharia el Souk
- Unfinished Obelisk
- High Dam
- Temple of Abu Simbel
- Kitchner's Island
- Habiba
- Temple of Philae
- Alaska Hot Air Balloons