Oscar Hotel Aswan

El Barka Street Aswan, Nile River Valley, Egypt

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Part 1 - Upper Egypt

A travel blog entry by catherine647

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... him he should be out playing. He smiled and laughed, but resumed his sales pitch. I feel for the boy. His parents have sent him out to make a little extra money, and if he doesn't sell something, he feels like he is disappointing them. At least the boy goes to school. Twenty four years ago, touting would have been a full-time job.

Philae, the temple of Isis, and the last place to resist Christianity in Egypt. Small and modern, ...

I Made it to Egypt, But Only Just...

A travel blog entry by phileasfarx

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... fly from Aswan to Cairo, and then, after a 10 hour wait, on to London. The first leg to Cairo was fairly easy – I sat and rested in the small empty airport in Aswan, and simply did what I was told to do when I was told to do it.

In Cairo, things began to get more difficult. Maybe it was because it was getting later in the day (we landed at just before midnight), maybe the size of the airport made everything more ...

Ancient Nubia, by Don Hogle

A travel blog entry by wareameye

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Today is our busiest day yet. Our cruise is docked at Aswan, in what is considered Upper Egypt or Nubia in ancient times.

We visit the Aswan High Dam in the morning, followed by the Philae Temple – a lovely temple that was moved to higher ground on an island when the dam was constructed and the waters flooded the valley behind it to make Lake Nasser. Later we have a ride on ...

The Aswan Valley

A travel blog entry by winegalcj

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... kickback for getting the job). That’s ok, what goes around, comes around and I might be her in my next life.

She told us about her life, how she has grown up in the Nubian Village a few kilometers from Luxor, one of the busiest tourist towns in Egypt. She spoke quietly with good English and told us that her native language – the dialect of the Nubians – was disappearing. “No one under 20 years old can speak Nubian anymore, they ...

Abu Simbel

A travel blog entry by j.knudsen

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... vist den eneste ! Enkelte turarrangører benytter hotellet ind imellem - solorejsende som jeg er vist mere sjældne. - Valid er min kontakt her på stedet, han er nubier og er født her i det lille bysamfund. Hans far var en af de arbejdere, der var med til at flytte templet i sikkerhed. Valid er en ualmindelig sympatisk fyr, der er mig til uvurderlig hjælp. Om aftenen får jeg via Valid lejlighed til at se og spise på det lille Nubiske hotel. Det er smukt indrettet og er som taget ud ...

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