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Nubian Oasis Hotel Aswan

234 Saad Zaglowl Street Aswan, Nile River Valley, Egypt

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Day 15 (we eventually get to Aswan)

A travel blog entry by adisyl

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The train is comfortable, and sleep comes easy, dinner is as described - "similar to an airplane meal" I wake up thinking how incredible Dahab was, and how awesome it was to explore the underwater worlds there, I really think I am gonna do more diving Now we are going to Aswan for 2 reasons 1 Abu Simbel - one of the highlights of Egypt 2 Felucca up …

Day 16 (Abu Simbel)

A travel blog entry by adisyl

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Up at 3am, bus picks us up, we join the convoy which departs Aswan 4am, we are near Sudan, so all trips involving tourists can only be made in police convoys, everyone drives like mad through the desert, so all us tourists can see Abu Simbel, 280km from Aswan Abu Simbel... An incredible Temple built by Ramses II over 30 years from 1274 BC, hidden …

Crazy Brazillian, annoying Aussie and a Felucca

A travel blog entry by bharden

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Aswan After getting a late maccas in Cairo, I went back to my hostel got my gear and easily got a taxi from the main round about out the front of the hostel. I think in Cairo there is more taxis than people. Its crazy. I was to eager to get to the train station to barter for a fare. Its easy to barter when you just want something, but when …

Tutankarden

A travel blog entry by bharden

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So to begin from where I left off. Got off the boat and met up with the tourist convoy. The mini bus went to Luxor with stops at temples of Kombo Ombo and Edfu on the way. The brazillian and 2 other spanish guys stayed back in a town they went to the night before, after a search for weed. The other stupid spanish people spent too long in the …

Baksheesh

A travel blog entry by bonthorn

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Coming into Aswan this morning we passed some pyramids, a Monument to Soviet-Egyptian Cooperation, and then sitting tall and proud on the cargo ship in the pier was FOXY! We were so relieved. It was 10am but we still had to wait another 5 hours before being allowed to disembark. All the passports had to be inspected, stamped and recorded by …