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Aswan
... to be very nice, but actually the Nile is quite
dirty and we didn’t get the good views until the sunset and we had dinner. The sunset turned the dark sky bright red. I had a laugh at eating dinner on the Nile River at night. As a kid, I
always looked at school reading material seeing Egyptian’s coming to the Nile to get water to take to their village or crops. ...
Kom Ombo & Edfu
... Nile, right next to the river, about 4Km from the town. It was dedicated to two Gods, Horus and Sobek. The Temple was mainly dedicated to the God Sobek, the crocodile God, together with his wife, in another form of the Goddess Hathor.
The Temple is of Greco-Roman structure, dating back to the year 119 BC, when Ptolemy VI, who started the construction, built it out of limestone.
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Aswan - Crocs and Rocks
... sanctioned its construction. It is nearly one third larger than any ancient Egyptian obelisk ever erected. If finished it would have measured around 42 m (approximately 137 feet) and would have weighed nearly 1,200 tons (1,066,621 kilograms). What's amazing is that the obelisk's creators began to carve it directly out of bedrock, one massive monolithic structure, but cracks appeared in the granite and the project was abandoned.
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Adventures in Abu Simbel and Aswan
... electricity and increased the amount of arable land. Unfortunately for the crocodiles, their habitat is now limited to the South side. Nobody swims in the river as it is too polluted downstream from the dam and it is crocodile infested upsteam.
Every day is an adventure
We spent a two days trying to find a cruise back to Luxor, walking into travel shops and docked boats. Nobody seemed to know where we could book a cruise. To top it off we were ...
Egypt
... the beach - the wet hair being whipped around as the waves crashed over them look. Most of the groups even seemed to have come with their own photographer to capture these horrifically embarrassing moments! After the beach, we had two more stops to reefs out in the open sea.
These stops were a lot more fun. There were huge schools of fish swimming around and the water was so clear.
That night we watched Egyptian pizza getting made. They make the dough base quite big, ...
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Basma Hotel
El Fanadek Street, Aswan | 3 star hotelfrom $82- So many staff, so little service
- What a fantastic hotel
- 1970's timewarp
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- Truly awful!
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Marhaba Palace Hotel
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Memnon Hotel
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Cleopatra Hotel
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Ramsis Hotel
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Kalabsha Hotel
Abtal El Tahrir Street, Aswan | 4 star hotel -
Oscar Hotel
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Amoun Village Hotel
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Iberotel Aswan
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