Beauty of Aswan - Egypt

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Aswan - Egypt

ASWAN – EGYPT Paradise on Earth ! Aswan is a place i love – i already travelled 7 times there and plan for more – It stands in South Egypt on the east bank of the Nile at the first cataract and is a busy market and tourist center. The modern city has expanded and includes the formerly separate community on the island of Elephantine. Aswan is one of the driest inhabited places in the world; as of early 2001, the last rain there was seven years earlier. As of 6 April 2010, the last rainfall was a thunderstorm on May 13, 2006. In Nubian settlements, they generally do not bother to roof all of the rooms in their houses. The latitude of the city that would become Aswan, located at– 24° 5’ 23’– was an object of great interest to the ancient geographers. They believed that it was seated immediately under the tropic, and that on the day of the summer solstice, a vertical staff cast no shadow. They noted that the sun's disc was reflected in a well at noon. This statement is only approximately correct; at the summer solstice, the shadow was only 1/400th of the staff, and so could scarcely be discerned, and the northern limb of the Sun's disc would be nearly vertical. Eratosthenes used measurements at Aswan (Elephantine) to contest the Flat Earth theory and tried to determine the circumference of Earth, using Syene as the originating point and Alexandria as the terminal point of a measured arc (based on shadow length at the solstice). The Nile is nearly 3,000 yards wide above Aswan. From this frontier town to the northern extremity of Egypt, the river flows for more than 750 miles (1,210 km) without bar or cataract. The voyage from Aswan to Alexandria usually took 21 to 28 days in favourable weather.:

ASWAN – EGYPT Paradise on Earth ! Aswan is a place i love – i already travelled 7 times there and plan for more – It stands in South Egypt on the east bank of the Nile at the first cataract and is a busy market and tourist center. The modern city has expanded and includes the formerly separate community on the island of Elephantine. Aswan is one of the driest inhabited places in the world; as of early 2001, the last rain there was seven years earlier. As of 6 April 2010, the last rainfall was a thunderstorm on May 13, 2006. In Nubian settlements, they generally do not bother to roof all of the rooms in their houses. The latitude of the city that would become Aswan, located at– 24° 5’ 23’– was an object of great interest to the ancient geographers. They believed that it was seated immediately under the tropic, and that on the day of the summer solstice, a vertical staff cast no shadow. They noted that the sun's disc was reflected in a well at noon. This statement is only approximately correct; at the summer solstice, the shadow was only 1/400th of the staff, and so could scarcely be discerned, and the northern limb of the Sun's disc would be nearly vertical. Eratosthenes used measurements at Aswan (Elephantine) to contest the Flat Earth theory and tried to determine the circumference of Earth, using Syene as the originating point and Alexandria as the terminal point of a measured arc (based on shadow length at the solstice). The Nile is nearly 3,000 yards wide above Aswan. From this frontier town to the northern extremity of Egypt, the river flows for more than 750 miles (1,210 km) without bar or cataract. The voyage from Aswan to Alexandria usually took 21 to 28 days in favourable weather. Clic 

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Corniche - Aswan

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Tomb Of Aga Khan – in front of Aswan

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Elephantine Island

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Elephantine island

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Aswan, Elephantine, Island

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Elephantine,Oberoi Hotel

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kitchener island aswan

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Aswan, Kitchener's Island,

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Old Cataract Hotel

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Old Cataract Hotel

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Old Cataract Hotel

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Basma Hotel – Aswan (my favorite)

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Large Coptic Church - Aswan

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Nubian Museum

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Mosquee Aswan

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Gate of the « Souk »

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Market – « Souk »

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« Karkade » - Hibiscus tea

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Stele – Sehel Island

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Nubian House

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Nubian House Nubian Decoration

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Nubian Village

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Nubian Restaurant Aswan

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Souk - aswan

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Nubian House around aswan

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Nubian House around Aswan

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Nubian House

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Nubian « Souvenirs »

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Nubian handmade

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Captain of Felouka

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Nile River around Aswan - Mohamed Mounir's house (famous Egyptian singer)

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Fishing on Nile

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The Nile at the First Cataract in Aswan

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Nile first cataract low dam

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Nile Aswan low dam

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High Dam Monument The Aswan Dam is an embankment dam situated across the Nile River in Aswan, Egypt. Since the 1950s, the name commonly refers to the High Dam, which is larger and newer than the Aswan Low Dam, which was first completed in 1902. Following Egypt's independence from the United Kingdom, the High Dam was constructed between 1960 and 1970. It aimed to increase economic production by further regulating the annual river flooding and providing storage of water for agriculture, and later, to generate hydroelectricity. The dam has had a significant impact on the economy and culture of Egypt. Before the dams were built, the River Nile flooded each year during late summer, as water flowed down the valley from its East African drainage basin. These floods brought high water and natural nutrients and minerals that annually enriched the fertile soil along the floodplain and delta; this made the Nile valley ideal for farming since ancient times. Because floods vary, in high-water years, the whole crop might be wiped out, while in low-water years widespread drought and famine occasionally occurred. As Egypt's population grew and conditions changed, both a desire and ability developed to control the floods, and thus both protect and support farmland and the economically important cotton crop. With the reservoir storage provided by these dams, the floods could be lessened, and the water could be stored for later release.

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High Dam Aswan

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Highdam - Aswan

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Dahabiya on Nasser Lake

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Cruise on Nasser Lake

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Philae Temple

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The Temple of Philae on Agilika Island

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Sounds and lights in PHILAE temple

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Philae temple – photo by Nubia

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The Unfinished Obelisk of Aswan

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A presentation by Nubia Nubia_group@yahoo.fr http://nubiagroup-powerpoint-collection.blogspot.com/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nubia_group_Powerpoint_Collection/ You can keep listening to the music or press « ESC » to exit Music : Omar Khayrat - Emra2a Mutallaqa