Lake Nasser

... aspects of life,and so I decided to visit the country a second time. My itinerary was Cairo-Assuan-Abu Simbel-Lake Nasser-Sinai Peninsula with St. Katherine's monastery-Alexandria-Abu Mena-Sakkara. Inbetween I went for a week to neighbouring Sudan. It ...

We took a felucca (traditional wooden sailing vessel) around the harbor of Aswan, then on to the Temple of Isis at Philae, Lake Nasser high dam, and Temple at Kalabshah.  All these temples are beginning to set us on overload.  There are soooo ...

Lake Nasser ferry ...

... I like my pastures just fine over here, thank you. Start: Deffintoad Hotel, Wadi Halfa, SUDAN. End: somewhere on Lake Nasser, EGYPT. Distance Traveled: guessing 50 km or so on Lake Nasser, northwards Road Conditions: calm waters Temperature: ...

Lake Nasser 21 Oct Awoke to the mournful wail of Egyptian music. Well, it might be Sudanese, I'm no expert and I certainly won't be buying the album. When I say I awoke, it was about the umpteenth time I had woken. The metal deck, cold wind, ...

We saw the Valley of Lions Temple and Amada Temple. Lake Nasser is a hugh man-made lake.  We couldn't figure out why there were no recreational boats on the lake.  We found out it's full of crocodiles.  So Lake Nasser is governed by ...

... seeing these huge statues in front of you! On the way back of Abu Simbel we passed by the Aswan high dam, which seperates Lake Nasser from the Nile. This baby is 111 meters high, but I managed to jump off it anyway :D Got to live on the ...

... was built in the 1960’s and created to control the Nile flood, create electricity for the whole of Egypt and form Lake Nasser, the world’s largest reservoir. We toured the High Dam wall and the Monument to acknowledge Egypt and Russia’s ...

... the magnificent temple Ramses II had the temple built. It was moved in the 60’s to avoid it being submerged when Lake Nasser was created. It was a magnificent sight even from the ferry. The four statues at the entrance were clearly visible but I ...

... even more so as they were cut up into thousands of pieces and moved in 1960’s to stop them being submerged by Lake Nasser.   After the first temple, Jed quickly came down with early symptoms of Templetitis and started referring to them as ...

... peels, and candy wrappers in a plastic bag. Without missing a beat they threw it over the edge of the boat into the lake. Garbage disposal is still developing in Egypt. The ferry trip was cramped and hot. It lasted 18 hours not including docking ...

... in the hallway one night.   The sunsets off our private deck were beautiful. The atmosphere is so serene; the lake is empty of any other traffic or boats. While the sites aren't that impressive comparatively, it is interesting to imagine how ...

Destination 378 (Ferry) After a very pleasant (at least if you booked first class...) journey on board of the ferry to bring heaps of hopefully excited people from Sudan to Egypt we all arrived to Aswan Port next to High Dam around 11:00 a.m. After ...

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