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Tea in the Sahara - The Police
(Jan 15 '07)
Aswan 1-16-07
Long day with a longer one on tap. I grabbed the sleeper train down to Aswan last night and was pretty happy with my first long rail experience. Controversy ensued at first when my ...
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Another early rise for our journey to Aswan, the journey itself was 4 hours. It was interesting trip as we got to see life along the Nile, lush green farmland of ...
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We arrived in Aswan at around 11am on the overnight train from Cairo. We had just spent the last two weeks visiting the sites in and around Cairo: Giza ...
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In the morning we moved into the lock at Esna and went to the upper deck to watch the action. I had gone through the Welland Canal on a Great Lakes cargo boat and the process ...
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The Fifth Day: Cruising the Nile and Visiting the Temple of Isis
(Feb 28 '06)
"The beautiful but much smaller Temple of Isis"
The dock at the Temple of Sobek was small and the landing is popular with cruise ships so that our boat left as soon as our tour of the temple was ...
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Aswan
(Mar 22 '07)
When we got back from Abu Simbel, we went on a little tour of the Nile around Aswan on a felucca. It was really pretty, the water and the scenery and everything, so it was really nice to just ride ...
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Camels, old stuff, mosquitos, and a boat ride
(Oct 05 '07)
"I don't think she was saying "Welcome to Egypt, my new American friends""
We were excited to leave Cairo after 3 days of chaos, and took a comfortable sleeper train to the much smaller city of Aswan, ...
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Aswan
(Dec 26 '05)
We took an ovenight train to Aswan from Cairo, which was surpisingly comfortable for a seater train. In Aswan we had a brand new hotel which was decked out with a really nice swimming pool area and ...
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Got up and ate breakfast, said bye to Ashley and Mark and then went walking around Aswan to find a hotel. Found an OK place, dropped our gear and were off. Walked to the Nubia ...
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Relaxation by the Nile
(Nov 09 '07)
I woke up to my alarm at about 7am and thinking we would be arriving at 8am I got up and got dressed before breakfast came around. Leon continued to sleep as I got ready and repacked my bag. He ...
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Recent Blogs for Aswan
My eyeballs are drying up like raisins!
(May 23 '08)
Our first night to Aswan was on the 14-hour train ride from Cairo. We lucked out on having our own cabin to spread out and get some sleep. As soon as we stepped out of the air-conditioned train the ...
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The tour that we arranged took us to the top of the Nile river. Into what is now a standard tourist destination, Aswan. Now there is nothing incredlibly interesting in Aswan. The sites ...
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Aswan
(May 15 '06)
We travelled by train from Cairo down to Aswan, it was a long overnight journey and I did have a panic attack due to the Egyptians crowding around us and obsessing over our blonde hair - it's not that ...
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