Aswan Photo Gallery by Stew Gitlin at pbase.com

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Aswan

Aswan is the smallest of the three major tourist cities based on the Nile. Being the furthest south of the three, it has a large population of Nubian people, mostly resettled from their homeland in the area flooded by Lake Nasser. Aswan is the home of many granite quarries from which most of the Obelisks seen in Luxor were sourced. Aswan was the ancient Egyptians' gateway to Africa, and many raiding parties began their travel south from Aswan.

Aswan airport	Aswan by day from our hotel	Aswan by night from our hotel	The Mausoleum of Aga Khan on the west bank of the Nile
A motor boat ride to the Temple of Philea which was reconstructed to save it from the rising waters from the Aswan Dam	The Temple of Philea
			The Temple at night
		Philae Temple at Aswan, Egypt
The Aswan Dam
	A nighttime street bazaar	A felucca sailing on the Nile
A glass-blowing demonstration and shopping opportunity			The Camel ride to St. Simeon Monastery
My Camel, who really wasn't in the mood to do this. A loose saddle is not really a good way to ride a camel :)	Time to catch up to the other guys now	The Monastery of St. Simeon
	A trek across the Sahara to a Nubian village	Our own armed camel guard
The Nubian village in the distance		Just like home

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