900 km south Cairo is Aswan, capital of Nubia, whose charm is combined with the beauty of the site. The Nile, after the 1st cataract widens in several arms strewn with islands as the island of Philae where formerly the temple of the Isis goddess was built on.

The granite was extracted in Aswan & was used for the construction of obelisks.

 The old careers and the unfinished obelisk give us an idea of the clever process used by the former Egyptians for this extraction.

Sail by felucca to the Botanical Gardens on Elephantine Island where Consul-General Kitchener indulged his passion for exotic flora, importing shrubs, trees and seeds from as far a field as India and Malaysia.  It is pleasant to walk along the island’s shady paths, enjoying its fragrance and a variety of bird life before taking another felucca sail back to Aswan.

The world famous High dam was an engineering miracle when it was built in the 1960s, in cooperation with the Soviet Union.

 It created a huge lake; Lake Nasser of 500km long & 12 large when it was built. Today,

 it provides Irrigation and Electricity for the whole of Egypt, and together with the Old Aswan Dam,

 6kms downriver, offers wonderful views for visitors. From the top of the High Dam,

 you can gaze across Lake Nasser, at Kalabsha Temple in the south and the huge power station to the north.