Basma Hotel Aswan

... day egypt. This museum also chronicals the amazing efforts undertaken by UNESCO to raise the various temples near the Nile (to include Abu Simbel) that would become flooded when the Aswan dam was completed. That evening we visited the Aswan Bazaar again.

... 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 green islands and gorgeous. We ...

... them. To get the best of it, go in a slow season; that way all your pictures will look better too...less tourists;) Aswan is Egypt's most southerly city, located at the northern end of the enormous Lake Nasser. The only thing in between is the Aswan ...

... car l’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 ...

After a 15 hour train ride, we arrived in Aswan to the taxi drivers insisting our hotel was many kilometres away. I really believe they don't know what a kilometre is, but have figured out that if they say a high enough number that people tourists will ...