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Images in this gallery relate to Aswan in southern Egypt covering the city, the River Nile and related sites except for more important places such as Philae, The Nubian Museum and Seheil Island Rock carvings.
Aswan Mausoleum EG052824jhp Egypt Aswan river Nile Aga Khan Mausoleum west bank elegant beautiful and a visit is often a part of a trip to visit an exhibition Nubian Village passed by boats travelling to the cataract islands such as Seheil or on the traditional afternoon sail offered in most tour packages and one route for those visiting the Monastery of St Simeon. What is also important is the close awareness of the inhospitable nature of the cataracts, now benign because of the impact of the two dams across the river, but imagining these huge rocks in a Nile inundation and one could understand the barrier that it created for those travellers trying to head further south by boat. The Mausoleum is for the Third Aga Khan who died in 1957 built by his widow his Begum or former wife and is in solid marble. The current Aga Kahn, his grandson Karim, is the leader of the Shi i Sect of Ismaili Muslims. The Tomb is occasionally open but usually a visit entails a climb by steps and apart from a close view of this beautiful building offers wonderful view over Aswan and the River Nile. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, ancient, Aswan, city, River, Nile, Nubia, Nubian, sand, dunes, cataracts, water, riverside, riverbank, 2005, landscape, palm, trees, travel, tourists, tourism, cruise, desert, divine, wife, embracer, Islamic, Saint, venerated, prominent, hilltop, Begum, widow, Fatimids, Shii, sect, Ismaili, Muslims, Mausoleum, tomb, Aga, Khan, third
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Collection: Aswan in general
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Aswan Mausoleum EG052824jhp
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Egypt Aswan river Nile Aga Khan Mausoleum west bank elegant

beautiful and a visit is often a part of a trip to visit an exhibition Nubian Village passed by boats travelling to the cataract islands such as Seheil or on the traditional afternoon sail offered in most tour packages and one route for those visiting the Monastery of St Simeon. What is also important is the close awareness of the inhospitable nature of the cataracts, now benign because of the impact of the two dams across the river, but imagining these huge rocks in a Nile inundation and one could understand the barrier that it created for those travellers trying to head further south by boat. The Mausoleum is for the Third Aga Khan who died in 1957 built by his widow his Begum or former wife and is in solid marble. The current Aga Kahn, his grandson Karim, is the leader of the Shi i Sect of Ismaili Muslims. The Tomb is occasionally open but usually a visit entails a climb by steps and apart from a close view of this beautiful building offers wonderful view over Aswan and the River Nile.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, ancient, Aswan, city, River, Nile, Nubia, Nubian, sand, dunes, cataracts, water, riverside, riverbank, 2005, landscape, palm, trees, travel, tourists, tourism, cruise, desert, divine, wife, embracer, Islamic, Saint, venerated, prominent, hilltop, Begum, widow, Fatimids, Shii, sect, Ismaili, Muslims, Mausoleum, tomb, Aga, Khan, third