We had only 4 hours in which to see all of Aswan before having to head to the airport to catch a flight back to Cairo so we focused on 3 activities.
We started with the Temple of Philae. This temple is most interesting because it was moved from Philae Island to a new location after the construction of the first Aswan dam had submerged the island (and so the temple) for at least half of each year. When you see the size of the temple, it's remarkable that it could have been moved. To get to it, we took a motorboat to the island it is on. On the way, we recorded everyone's looks
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Once on the island, we saw the temple in its granduer
including an engraving that had been chiseled out
The columns were once again of varied styles
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The ride back gave us a chance for a last view of the temple
and the old Aswan Dam
Back on the shore we took the obligatory picture of the
phone booth that had been taken over by the spice salesman
Next it was on to the new Aswan Dam where we took a picture of the
river flowing north
and a lot of pictures of people in our group from various angles
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Our final stop was a fellucca
ride on the Nile
Our pictures are divided among scenes of the shore
(black lines mark where the level was before the Dam)
(notice engravings on rocks)
(Cataract Hotel where they filmed Murder on the Nile)
(temple at the Nubian Museum)
(Aga Kahn's mansion)
(side of the boat)
and the collection
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We also took a lot of people photos
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