Elephantine Island is 1,200 meters long from north to south and 400 meters wide at its widest point. It and the other nearby islands can be seen from the slope of the west bank of the Nile. They are just downstream of the First Nile River, on the border between Upper Egypt and Lower Nubia....Read More
Aswan City is a winter resort with a lot of ancient Egyptian and Pharaonic sites, such as the Abu Simbel temples, the Philae temple, the unfinished obelisk, and many pharaonic tombs. The High Dam and Lake Nasser.Read More
Many Christian landmarks can be found in Cairo, including the Jewish Temple of Ben Ezra, the ruins of the ancient fortress known as Babylon, the legendary Hanging Church, and the Coptic Museum chronicling an almost extinct civilization.Read More
The Kom Ombo Temple was built by the Ptolemaic dynasty during the Roman invasion 180 years ago (BC). What distinguishes the Temple of Kom Ombo is that it stands on the bank of the river between Edfu and Aswan. This makes it a great stopover for Nile cruises and a major attraction in Aswan. The...Read More
Lake Nasser is a massive freshwater lake about 350 miles (550 kilometers) south of Aswan and runs across Egypt's southern border into northern Sudan. It was created when the Aswan High Dam was built in the 1960s. The British colonial government built a smaller dam in 1902, but it turned out to be too small...Read More
