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Aswan Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Aswan, Egypt
We Took the Midnight Train Going Anywhere...
This is a top pick! ... . The start of a new day, and only 4 more hours (if we’re lucky) left on the train. Arrival in Aswan was quite uneventful. We found a hotel, ate a big bowl of Koshary, wandered around the souq, and did some very bad ...
Aswan
This is a top pick! After spending plenty of time in Cairo I headed down on an overnight train to Aswan, Egypt's most southern city. I thought the train would be quite dodgey but turned out to be really nice. I was sharing the cabin with a guy room Korea. The train ride was ...
Aswan & Living with the Family 22-27 Jan
This is a top pick! ... would have been and without the hoards of tourists. This is the busiest place, apart from the Pyramids, that I have visited in Egypt. Even Karnak which sees hundred perhaps thousands of visitors each day never felt as crowded, but then it is a ...
Aswan
This is a top pick! ... 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, ...
Kitchener Island
This is a top pick! we arrived back at the Ruby, just in time for lunch. I had been speaking to Johanna, mentioning that we planned to go to kitchener Island, he said he was willing to arrange a boat to take us there, the motor boat was dirt cheap, 40 le for the return ...
A Lesson on How to be Remembered
This is a top pick! ... carved with beautiful images of people and gods, however many of them had been defaced in what looked like deliberate damage. Day three in Aswan was spent on a felucca. During the day I was able to swim in the Nile. It wasn't the cleanest water to ...
Water
This is a top pick! Aswan lies at the point where ancient Egypt ended and Nubia began. Today, the Nile city is a gateway to Abu Simbel, the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, and Philae, the Isis temple. On a long day, beginning at 3:30 a.m, I went on a tour that visited ...
Back on board
This is a top pick! Saturday, excellent, a rest day, just lounging about on the sundeck, drink a few cocktails, watch the world go by, I love watching people work, I could do it all day. One thing though, must watch how much sun to take, it can be a bit deceptive, with a ...
Big Triangles, Dancing and The Toilet
This is a top pick! ... are here at the start of recorded living. Its fantastic and dirty. N and I both have the runs but not too bad. We are in Aswan at the moment and about to head off on our cruise down the Nile with nothing to do but drink and relax - Fantastic. The big ...
Mum will never show her shoulders again
This is a top pick! ... window and I woke with a fright. We had to get up at 5am anyway as the convoy of buses was leaving from Sohag to Aswan at 6.30am. Mum couldn't work out the taps and bathroom fittings. She had a cold shower. She wasn't ...
Hot Hot Hot
This is a top pick! ... while enjoying the home cooked meal. Made our way back in the dark for a much needed good nights rest. Aswan is considered Upper Egypt although it is located south of Cairo...go figure. The Nubian's are located in this part of Egypt as ...
Does a felucca passenger shit in the woods?
This is a top pick! ... this was the outpost of "the civilised world". On the important trade routes from the south, and of strategic military significance, Aswan has a long history of settlement, from Pharaonic times through until today. These days, as it basks in the sun ...
trip to Aswan
This is a top pick! ... there was unrest during the period of Ptolemy IV and Ptolemy V Epiphanes. This is not only the best preserved ancient temple in Egypt, but the second largest after Karnak. It was believed that the temple was built on the site of the great battle between ...
Aswan - raiding the Tombs of the Nobles
This is a top pick! ... other too. We tried to get across to the 6th century St Simeon monastery (as seen from a distance in the initial Aswan entry) which was a little further down-river, but the camel and ferry boat drivers wanted to charge exorbitant rates to ...
Baksheesh, cockroaches, and ancient wonders
This is a top pick! Aswan, Egypt. From Luxor I caught the train to Aswan. My first night was spent in a cockroach infested pit called the Nubian Oasis. Even the cockroaches were complaining. Still I was only in the room for a few hours before being woken up at 3:00 am to ...
In denial
This is a top pick! ... of my life in Egypt. So after 4 truly amazing days in Cairo, I sadly departed as said in the previous entry. I arrived in Aswan around 12:30pm, probably the hottest time of the day. I am staying in a double room at a hotel a block ...
it is offical i have not ever experienced ...
This is a top pick! ... defianltly be more Indiana Jones like... but as there were only a handful of tourists it was very very special... As for the Aswan dam - Dont waste your hard earned Egyptian Pounds. So this afternoon going to go to a ritzy hotel and pay and use ...
Ziggy
This is a top pick! ... because he's got two Australians signed up and needs to fill out his boat, I get cautious. Well, for starters, I'm in Egypt, and it's not working out so well for me. Seems like every time something goes really well something else goes equally ...
Land of the Nile
This is a top pick! ... and I have been in Egypt for about 1.5 weeks. We've seen the Pyramids, Farafra Oasis, Abu Simbel, Cairo old city, Aswan, taken a felluca (traditional sail boat) down the Nile, visited beaucoup temples, and now are in Luxor seeing the crown jewels of ...
Worst train ride from Luxor to Aswan!
This is a top pick! ... me something I really didn't want to see!!!! I was so disgusted and angry, but he only got more excited. I learned NEVER to ride in the front seat of a taxi in Egypt again. At this point I really hated the men in ...
Aswan, Abu Simbel And A Felucca Down The Nile.
This is a top pick! ... High Dam was created. This was a massive operation requiring worldwide assistance. Five very sleepy Busabout people checked into the Aswan airport and went through countless security checks before boarding our "Memphis Air" plane to Abu Simbel. It is ...
Aswan - jewel of the Nile
This is a top pick! ... experience somewhat. Anyway, we headed straight to Elephantine Island and the ancient ruins of Yebu. After a quick tour of the Aswan musuem (a small and motley collection of artefacts for those who have been to the Egyptian museum in Cairo) we ...
The Highs and Lows of Egypt
This is a top pick! ... a must see on our trip around the world. How can you say you have been around the world and skipped the pyramids? But Egypt definitely exposed how this trip has been absolutely fantastic on the one hand, and a real grind on the other. After traveling ...
Searching for Bondisms in Aswan
This is a top pick! ... of Egypt. Riding up front, I was finally living another one of my life long dreams, to be the designated horn honker !!!!! Now Aswan, is a delightful little market town, and it does not matter where you stay, either open you window or step onto a balcony, ...
Hot Times
This is a top pick! ... when we were walking down the "mile of butchers". The smell was a little tough to take. Food continues to be a challenge in Egypt. In Turkey I could always order Lamb something and be happy. I haven't found that survival food yet. At least we are not ...
Sailing on a Felucca to Kom Ombo
This is a top pick! ... always said his name, "Valentino" and would laugh so hard. We later found out that the word "Valentino" is a slang word in Egypt meaning a drunk thugging womanizer! So thats why they were laughing. The second day was the best on the boat, we ...
Aswan
This is a top pick! After the hustle and bustle of Cairo, Aswan felt a world away. For one thing despite being a city of about a million, Aswan is quite relaxed. For another thing, the Egyptians in this area are Nubian: very African looking, as opposed to their cousins to ...
Package Tour Departing Aswan
This is a top pick! ... rather than eat the already paid for buffet, I opted for an authentic Nubian meal. The Nubians are a separate race from ancient Egypt, of a darker skin color who cohabitate with the Egyptians from Aswan to the border of Sudan. They speak their own tongue ...
Hello again after yesterday's reasonably ...
This is a top pick! ... , when i paddle to the source of the nile in a tin can for charity or something. I had intended to totally rip into egypt as for a country so dependant on tourism it is one of the most badly organised places for doing anything off your own back, ...
Hello now i am in aswan in upper egypt ...
This is a top pick! hello Now I am in Aswan in Upper Egypt. Things are going well here. Myself and Matt left luxor on Mondy. We had intended to come here by bus, but when the bus arrived en route from Cairo or something, it was rammed with locals, all crammed up ...