Aswan Travel Blogs

Last night was awesome!  We took a nice boat over to a Nubian island for dinner.  Along the way, we were dancing on our boat to some drums....good times.  The sun was just setting over the Nile. Today, Ramadan has started.  The streets were packed last night with people and a l…

[Camera and Egypt photos finally returned and updated (13/0209)...enjoy! ;D  ] A rushed morning of sight seeing activities postponed from the other day when we arrived late in Aswan.  Bashaa is my very talkative and seemingly very well informed guide for the day.  First we hit the H…

Feeling a lot better today, and as a result I'm a lot more cheerful. Plus. Also... from now on, I'll be tagging Robert in every one of the posts I make from Egypt. Sweetie, this way you won't be able to complain about not knowing how I'm going because you have no excuse not to be able to see//read …

...you're not actually in Egypt.  I swear I have never met a people less willing to give you a straight answer.  Everything involves a wheel-n-deal type of interaction.  It can be quite tiring. Our train arrived late, about 10:30am, so we were rushed on our sightseeing list of Aswan…

When i and my friend - Ana - had decided to visit Egypt we didn't know that Ehab (Maher) would accompany us during our whole trip but i don't know what we would have done there without him...This trip wasn't just a dream coming true but also the beginning of an amazing and a hopefully everlasting friendship. Shukran Ehab for these unforgetable 9 days - you're an incredibly nice person! God bless Travbuddy!!!!! :-))))

I normally don't take pictures of airports but the Aswan Int'l Airport is a totally different ballgame. It's not only clean but its interiors are quite well decorated. Also I found the duty free shopping in here quite good. We arrived here early morning, the only pain is that there's usually a…

Today was to start with a visit to a Nubian village.  We were up well before the 7:30 wakeup and met Dia, our Nubian guide at 8:30 for a short walk to a motor launch.   Dia is an ornithologist as well as an Egyptologist so first order of business was to cross directly to the very rur…

Arriving in Aswan mid-morning we view the unfinished obelisk and visit the High Dam. We sailed on a felucca to the Botanical Gardens before joining our cruise ship.

I jumped a bus from Luxor to Aswan early the next day.  It was an interesting experience trying to find the right bus but all good and thinking back to my last experience of public transport in Africa (Morocco in '92) I was pleased to enjoy a compfy seat!  It was as we were making our way…

We arrived in Aswan around 10am. The train ride was tolerable despite the cramp space and the inedible train food. Washing up was a challenge as well, but we made do. The original plan was to go straight to see the Aswan Dam and felucca ride before heading off to the cruise boat but with luck - we …

The first Egyptian temple I ever visited was in an unusual spot - it was in the middle of Madrid in Spain - and not in Egypt. So what is an Egyptian temple doing in Madrid - the ancient Egyptians never made it all the way to Spain to settle down and build temples there?   The reaso…

Egypt is amazing.. so different than Europe, especially the weather.. haha ;) i went to Egypt with a good friend and we had the time of our lifes.. nice people and warm people.. only the men were driving us crazy.. haha i hope to come back sometimes and visit some good old friends again..

Then it was off to Wadi Rum in Jordan, a desert region of sand dunes and impressive vertical rock mountains made famous by the exploits of Lawrence of Arabia, who used it as a base during WW1, and also lived there for some time after the end of the war. It wasn’t long before our 4wd truck got…

We made it to the train station with actual tickets and ended up meeting two guys from Illinois on the train traveling separately.  One is an engineer who also quit his job to travel for 6 mos.  He keeps saying that  everything is much crazier in India.  Can't wait for…

We awoke on the second morning of our Felucca trip with the boat still moored.  Perhaps the captain was affording himself a bit of a sleep in today? Last night was quite a late one and we had certainly made good progress to date. We didn’t get underway until after breakfast.  The weathe…