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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 River Nile EG052713jhp Egypt Aswan river Nile Hotel old Cataract feluccas sailing riverside view part of a trip to visit to the cataract islands such as Seheil and on the return a chance to see the upper reaches of the Nile and its cataracts between Aswan City proper and the British Dam. 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. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, ancient, Aswan, city, River, Nile, East, Bank, Nubia, Nubian, feluccas, motorboat, cataract, old, hotel, famous, Death, Christie, book, film, setting, water, riverside, riverbank, steps, gardens, veranda, balconies, luxury, 2005, landscape, palm, holiday, travel, tourists, tourism, cruise, vegetation, trees, modern, style
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Collection: Aswan in general
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Aswan River Nile EG052713jhp
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Egypt Aswan river Nile Hotel old Cataract feluccas sailing riverside

view part of a trip to visit to the cataract islands such as Seheil and on the return a chance to see the upper reaches of the Nile and its cataracts between Aswan City proper and the British Dam. 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.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, ancient, Aswan, city, River, Nile, East, Bank, Nubia, Nubian, feluccas, motorboat, cataract, old, hotel, famous, Death, Christie, book, film, setting, water, riverside, riverbank, steps, gardens, veranda, balconies, luxury, 2005, landscape, palm, holiday, travel, tourists, tourism, cruise, vegetation, trees, modern, style