Paradise Hotel Aswan

373 Saad Zaghlol Street Aswan, Nile River Valley, Egypt

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Aswan adn the approach thereto!

A travel blog entry by mrsmac

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... walk. This temple was actually two temples in one. on one side was one dedicated to Horus which became a healing sanctuary and the second was for Sobek the crocodile god.He was depicted with a human body and a crocodile's head.The most important panels here were one showing a calendar and another depicting all the surgical instruments used in healing in ancient times.
After this visit it was back to the ship and 5 hours of cruising to Aswan. This was ...

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

A travel blog entry by phileasfarx

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... this was £5 a night well spent) and the Evangelical Mission Hospital.

After three weeks of feeling progressively more and more ill, I finally went to see a doctor on Friday 25th. I don’t usually like hospitals and doctors (professionally speaking of course), but I was getting to the point where I was not only struggling to do anything that could vaguely be described as touristy, but simply getting and staying out of ...

Aswan Day One

A travel blog entry by aliceatfr

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... next stop. The construction on this dam began 1960 and compleded in 1971.. It took Soviet financing to complete this project. The volume of the dam itself is 17 times that of the Great Pyramid.
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Ah, the Island of Philae----this is the temple of Isis. The only thing on the island is the temple of Isis. with alot of vegetation. To get to this island is by boat.....you can go on tour or you ...

The Aswan Valley

A travel blog entry by winegalcj

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... owner of Emy’s restaurant on the Corniche (walkway along the Nile) – highly recommended for very good reason – has "friends" and will set us up. What a deal.

Emy’s restaurant is written up with fondness in just about every guide book around. It’s also a local hangout. Tonight we were 50% of his clientele. Business is clearly off, but the food could not have been better – outstanding in fact. A tangeen (casserole) ...

Abu Simbel

A travel blog entry by j.knudsen

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... om året - når de 60 meter helt ind i templets allerhelligste, hvor det i nogle minutter oplyser tre af de fire guder. Ramses selv er naturligvis den ene. Kun underverdenens gud Ptah forbliver i mørket. Det demonstrerer en stor viden og byggeteknisk kunnen, at de har været i stand til at konstruere templet med den præcision. Hvert år - den 22 februar og den 22. oktober - indtræffer denne begivenhed. Oprindelig var templet ’skåret ind i klippen !

Nu var det så ...

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