Wadi As Subua

Lake Nasser

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April 26th 2008
Life aboard Kasr Ibrim was extravagant and the food exceptional making it very difficult to not gain weight. The majority of monuments along lake Nasser have been relocated to escape the flooding resulting from the high dam at Aswan. Moving all the monuments in the 1960s was a feat of pharonic proportions but the most impressive has to be the relocation of the Temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Upper Egypt » Abu Simbel

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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