Aswan Cataracts

Aswan - Day 40

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October 23rd 2007
We drove down to Aswan. We had a bit of a problem - we were hoping to drive down the east bank of the Nile but were stopped at a road block about 15 km down the road and told it was too dangerous and we must go back to Luxor and wait to go in the convoy. Since the shootings in 1997 when a number of tourists were killed the authorities make all the tourist buses and vehicles travel in a ... read more

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The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom arose circa 3200 B.C. and a ser... ... read more