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Ramses Hotel Aswan

Abtal El Tahrir St., beside Cornech el Nile Aswan, Nile River Valley, 81111, Egypt

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Fools and Fuluccas

A travel blog entry by yoni

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January 6, 2007 Aswan, Egypt At 6:30 AM this morning Muhammad picked us up from our hotel and took us to the Luxor train station for our trip south to Aswan. We had wanted to take a felucca to Aswan but our tour company says it can't be done. At Aswan we are scheduled to tour the High Damn and the Isis Temple complex. January 7, 2008 Aswan, Egypt …

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Part 1 - Upper Egypt

A travel blog entry by catherine647

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... And a bully.

Our latest hotel is on an island. We have to take the ferry to get there. We have a view of the Nile, but had to sacrifice the non-smoking room for it. The room is huge, but looks like it was last decorated in the early 1980s. We are so bagged that it took all our effort to stay awake until just after supper. As soon as TT's head hit the pillow, it was lights out. I don't think she moved until sunrise the next ...

Aswan and our first day on the Nile cruise

A travel blog entry by nuwan_shali

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... Temple of Philae - the temple of love - dedicated to the goddess Isis. Getting there involved a 10 minute motorboat ride on the Nile and it was breathtaking to see the temple appear over the rocky terrain.

The temple was a massive structure built by the Greek/Romans. There isn't a single wall, ceiling or column without some kind of carving or hieroglyphics telling a story. The detail and the scale and how ...

Ancient Nubia, by Don Hogle

A travel blog entry by wareameye

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... We end up doing a back alley deal at a wholesaler’s for a mixture of seventeen Nefertiti, King Tut and Akhnenatun busts, as well as a rhinestone-studded metal crocodile as a birthday gift for one of the guys, who was the first to hold the real crocodile in the Nubian village.

There’s a lot of haggling between the guide and the wholesaler, and I’m shown numbers in ...

The Aswan Valley

A travel blog entry by winegalcj

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... to what the picture showed. I am pretty sure that is not an ancient mummy in there.

Another temple tour was planned for this morning, but the timing was too early and I was not intrigued enough to get out of a perfectly fine bed at 6am.

So, today, Tuesday, November 8th is a day of leisure – lounging around in the incredible sunshine, splashing in the pool, eating too much food. Watching the Nile pass us on each side, towns ...