Basma Aswan Hotel

... us to the Nubian Museum.  This relatively new facility displays artifacts saved before Lake Nasser flooded the area behind the Aswan High Dam, erasing the traditional homelands of the Nubian people.  More than 3,000 objects are preserved here, ...

... nbsp; Young adults are telling us they love Obama and they love America! After a few hours of rest and relaxation at our hotel we visit a perfume making factory and shop. Egypt is known as the first country to produce perfume.  A lotus flower perfume ...

... league's 100th anniversary. In the morning, we disembarked the MS Nile Romance for the final time and checked into the Basma Hotel. This hotel looked over the Mosque, the Koptic Church and the Aswan Bazaar. While we were at the hotel ...

Our first day on our own in Aswan, we checked into our hotel and were completely in awe with the view. We stayed at Hotel Basma which sits on a big hill overlooking the city of Aswan and the Nile at its first cataract where it’s divided by many ...

... air conditioned van, which would take us to our hotel. Too bad we were only supposed to be here for one night, because the Basma Hotel was pretty awesome! The room was enormous, the hotel overall looked as one of the cleanest I have seen so far,  ...

A serious nap was required when I arrived at the Basma Hotel, which was located on top of a hill overlooking Aswan and the Nile. I slept longer than planned and in so doing, screwed up Ehab's plans for our afternoon. So after a brief time together, he had ...

... water and a couple of oranges.   The whole process is so annoying that we spent little time shopping. Fortunately, the Basma Hotel where we stayed was a very decent place.  A large complex with a pool and lounge area, gardens and nice ...

DAY 22 - ASWAN We got to our hotel/resort mid morning. I have never seen such spectacular views before! The view from our window over looked the massive pool, then the Nile river and followed by the sandy desert. Hard to explain the beauty. Everything in ...

... High Dam was created. This was a massive operation requiring worldwide assistance. Five very sleepy Busabout people checked into the Aswan airport and went through countless security checks before boarding our "Memphis Air" plane to Abu Simbel. It is ...

... everything: hair, eyes, ears, mouth, etc... There was nothing to hide behind; we just had to muscle through. We got as far as the Basma Hotel and a car stopped and asked us if needed a lift. It was so nice of this guy to drive us back into town and then ...

Woke up beside the Nile near Qena, north of ...

... . It was very cool…it actually looks like a body of water in the distance. There is absolutely nothing between Abu Simbel and Aswan; it’s all desert. I would not want to get stuck out here. Abu Simbel is only a few miles from the Sudan boarder ...

... and light show. It was pretty corny, but it was nice to see the Temple lit up at night.  Tomorrow morning we check out of this hotel and we fly back to Cairo for a few more days. I can’t believe we’ve been here a week and a half and we ...

... 8217;eau érode les briques.  Nous quittons le monastère pour regagner Assouan et sur la route de l’hôtel Basma, nous entrons dans la cathédrale d’Assouan. Quelques mots d’arabe nous attirent la sympathie du gardien qui nous fait ...

... any trouble also.    On day three we had another day of travel back to Cairo to take a domestic flight down to Aswan (where I currently am writing this journal).  Along the journey we stopped at a local shopping mall to purchase some cell ...