900 km south Cairo is Aswan, capital of Nubia, whose charm is combined with the beauty of the site. The Nile, after the 1st cataract widens in several arms strewn with islands as the island of Philae where formerly the temple of the Isis goddess was built on.
the unfinished obelisk
The granite was extracted in Aswan & was used for the construction of obelisks.
The old careers and the unfinished obelisk give us an idea of the clever process used by the former Egyptians for this extraction.
Elephantine Island & Botanical Garden by Felucca
Sail by felucca to the Botanical Gardens on Elephantine Island where Consul-General Kitchener indulged his passion for exotic flora, importing shrubs, trees and seeds from as far a field as India and Malaysia. It is pleasant to walk along the island’s shady paths, enjoying its fragrance …
high dam in egypt
The world famous High dam was an engineering miracle when it was built in the 1960s, in cooperation with the Soviet Union.
It created a huge lake; Lake Nasser of 500km long & 12 large when it was built. Today,
it provides Irrigation and Electricity for the whole of Egypt, and toget…