New Cataract Aswan

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Abtal el tahrir street Aswan, Nile River Valley, Egypt, 20-97-316000

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Nubian Camel Ride

The morning in Aswan was spent visiting some of the old and some of the new. We stopped at the High Dam which was built by Nasr and created the largest man-made lake in the world. This had both benefits and drawbacks. It creates so much electricity that Egypt imports much of it, and it saved thousands of people from famines. On the down side, it has submerged hundreds of temples and shrines and villages. A handful of these temples were rescued from the waters, but many lie beneath to this day...

Aswan, Egypt eurotrekker05
Asman

Aswan. The head of Lake Nasser is in Aswan, this lake is the largest man made lake on the planet. It is about 500kms long and stores a massive of water. It's very interesting; search it on goggle, type in lake Nasser Egypt. The lake prevents flooding threw the whole of Egypt that used to occur in the past, it produces huge amount of power and it releases water for irrigation at a perfect rate. I felt a bit sick yesterday and spent day resting, James, Dad and Sebastian flew at 3am to Abul Simb...

Aswan, Nile River Valley, Egypt fourplus
A birthday I'll NEVER forget!

Happy Birthday to meeeee! And what a birthday it was! If I had to think of any place to celebrate my 21st (or any birthday for that matter, Egypt would top the list! I highly recommend it!). So, how might you ask, was our night train? Eh. That's about how it was. Not too bad. I actually slept more than I expected to. One of the benefits of being short is that I could curl up and fit nicely into the chairs. Sure, I lost feeling in my legs, my butt and my back at various points during the night...

Aswan, Egypt jen86
Nubia Submerged - Days 6-9 (Abu Simbel to Aswan)

So a few things I've learned about traveling in Egypt: bring lots of change. I don't mean coins, I mean single dollar bills like you're going to the strip club. There is not much that cannot be had for "one yankee doodle dollar" in this here neck of the woods. Having Egyptian change is not a bad idea either (once again, not the coins but the smaller bills) since water and sodas and postcards and toilet paper (more on that later) can be bought for 1 to 5 to 10 to 20 Egyptian pounds. Their mone...

Aswan, Egypt teamollie
Aswan - jewel of the Nile

Hello again all. After some fast moves I'm now in Upper Egypt, more commonly known as sourthern Egypt these days, on the fertile banks of the Nile in Aswan in the hope of finding some warmer weather that my weary boday can really enjoy. So far it's very pleasant and living up to expectations I had from my pre-trip research, and in a month or two it would be very nice to be here indeed. We didn't arrive without a fight however - the boat ride across the Red Sea from Sharm to Hurghada was strai...

Aswan, Egypt technotrekker
No Death on the Nile

Monday pm - Fri.: After the Luxor balloon ride and breakfast, I boarded the St. George I cruise boat for a trip to Upper Egypt, up the Nile. Here's the irony in that statement... I was headed South, but they call N. Egypt "Lower Egypt" and S. Egypt "Upper Egypt", because the Nile is one of the few rivers that flows from South to North. It can get very confusing. So basically, boarded in Luxor in the North and headed South to the ultimate destination of Aswan. The brochures/internet pictures o...

Luxor, Egypt trockie
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... would take us on a tour of Elephantine Island before the one other person would arrive. "Wait one other person, yesterday when we agreed to come we were told there were at least 3 other people, and that we weren't going to go if there wasn't. We will just keep our half of the money and you can keep the rest, that seems fare." By this stage we had had enough we just wanted a relaxing time. "No, no, no, let me ring around first." After borrowing several peoples phones and ...

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Aswan and the Island on Philae

Up reasonably early, just for something different, to head out to see the Unfinished Obelisk. A huge 30meter Obelisk in Aswans Granite mines
that was being carved out for Queen Hatshepsut to be sent to Karnak
temple..except it cracked during carving..so they just left it there!
Its massive and carved out on 3 sides but still a part of the rocks..if
that makes sense! We moved quickly on to Aswan Dam..a massive dam that ...

Aswan, Nile River Valley, Egypt jasndan
June 30th- July 4th

... sleeper train in egypt. Notice I added egypt so comfortable is not by american standards. Tired though I was actually rocked to slep by the crazy train and arrived at a rather nice hotel with a balcony view of the nile. This put me in grave spirits ready for the next adventure.
After a shower eric, rebecca and I headed to the markets to try our hand at bargaining. After about an hour and a half I had enough and didn't buy a thing. Got a lot of marriage proposals where I kept ...

Aswan, Nile River Valley, Egypt sammyjo199
Day 5 - In De Nile

... to time which was lovely and refreshing. Anyway we hadn't picked the best side of the boat as we were in the morning sun be we figured it would be ok by the afternoon. Little did we know......Well we stopped by the side and tied up for lunch, we had a wonderful vegetarian lunch on deck (just move all the bags to the side) after which we all sort of relaxed. Then Steve jumped up went to the back of the boat (where Katherine and I was) and proceeded to jump in the Nile, he popped back up ...

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