Moevenpick Aswan

... from dinner for breakfast. You do get spoiled by the buffet breakfast at the hotel. The train is slowing down as we approach Aswan station. it is around noon, only 3 hours late ! Got off the train to meet up with the group. It was nice and ...

... sightseeing in Aswan.  Aswan is the most southern city of Egypt so it is a lot warmer.  Our first impressions of Aswan are that is is much more peaceful and clean than Cairo. Today we visit the Unfinished Obelisk which was a remarkable ...

Aswan ...

... the countryside and then visit the Step Pyramid at Sakkara.  It was approaching closing time so we were essentially alone with the Step Pyramid.  It was a very surreal moment.   This evening we say goodbye to Cairo and fly down to ...

... elephant ivory.  We order dinner in and go to bed, exhausted from the trip.   The next day our tour of Aswan begins early with a shuttle boat ride across the river.  Then we drive to a boat landing where dozens of empty water taxis are ...

... tour de FELOUKE autour des îles elephantines  Hotel de résidence à ASSOUAN :          Le ««  moevenpick elephantine island »»                      ...

... in the hotel for the day.  Our new tour guide met us in the lobby and we were off to the unfinished obelisk.  Aswan was the only convenient source of granite next to the Nile.  It is hard to believe that they could have quarried granite ...