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Aswan - Dams & Philae Temple

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January 13th 2011
6th Jan - Day 97 – Aswan Late start (finally!!), we made the most of it. Slept in and missed breakfast but were able to make our way along the Nile to Maccas, where the breakfast menu was available until 11am. Yay! We weren’t the only ones from our group to make the short journey up the street… After brekky we walked back one block from the water to the souk. A bustling and quite lengthy str ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Upper Egypt » Aswan

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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