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The most important attractions located in Aswan
By Seif Kamel |
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Due to its warm dry weather and the sun that shines in the city all year long, Aswan is one of the most wonderful winter resorts in Egypt and the whole world.
With beautiful scenery of feluccas sailing down the Nile and a number of matchless Pharaonic monuments, the town has always had a special magical atmosphere that one feels as soon as he gazes at the Nile in Aswan. |
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The market of
Aswan |
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One of the most
famous attractions in Aswan is the touristic market or "Souq"
famous for its many diverse goods especially spices,
cotton products, all sorts of different herbs, small
granite and alabaster statues, papyrus, golden and
silver items, hand made carpets, and all sorts of gifts
and souvenirs |
 
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The Nubian Museum |
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The wonderfully
designed Nubian Museum located to the south of Aswan is
one of the most interesting places to visit in the city.
Nubia, the region located between Aswan and Khartoum,
the Sudanese capital, was inhabited since prehistoric
times.
This region was always famous since ancient times for
its handcrafts like baskets and pottery and many of
these items are displayed in the museum.
Thanks to the UNESCO project that helped in saving the
monuments Nubia. Many findings and displays from this
region are exhibited in this marvelously designed
museum.
The garden of the museum contains reconstructed cave
with many ancient rock carvings and a Nubian house.
The museum opens from 9 AM to 1 PM and from 5 to 9 PM
daily |
 
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The Aswan Museum |
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The Aswan
Museum is located inside a wonderful garden in the
Elephantine Island.
The museum hosts a number of displays starting from
prehistoric times till the Greco Roman era.
A new section was added to the museum containing the
recent finds in Aswan including a set of jewelry and a
marriage contract dating back to 350 BC |
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The Nilometer |
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Located near
the Aswan Museum, the walls of the Nilometer is
calibrated to record the height of the Nile flood that
used to take place annually in Aswan and the whole
southern region of Egypt.
This Nilometer, which dates back to Pharaonic times, was
perused again after being discovered in 1882 |
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The Philae Temple |
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The Philae
Temple which was the center of the cult of Isis in Aswan
was mainly constructed by Ptolemy XII and then many
kings from the Greco Roman era contributed by adding
more and more items to the temple.
The UNESCO, after the construction of the High Dam in
1970s, had to relocate the temple in the location where
it is today in the Agilika Island. This project took
around eight years to be completed.
Visitors now have to take a boat to visit the island and
the temple which is one of the best preserved and most
wonderful Greco Roman temples ever erected in Egypt. |
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The Unfinished Obelisk |
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It is a huge
obelisk dating from the Pharaonic New Kingdom and it is
located in an ancient granite quarry just south of
Aswan. If this gigantic obelisk was completed it would
have weighed 1.8 million kilograms and would have stood
at 41 meters high.
The three sides of the obelisk were finished before the
ancient Egyptians discovered a flow in the obelisk and
had to abandon it. |
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The high Dam |
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The high Dam
which was constructed by the former Egyptian president,
Gamal Abdel Nasser, between 1961 and 1970 is 3830 meters
long, 111 meters high, and 980 meters wide at its base.
This Dam was constructed to reserve the water of the
flood of the Nile to be used in cultivating land in the
Nile Valley.
It was also used to produce a large percentage of the
electricity of Egypt |
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The Kitchener's Island |
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Also named the
plants island, the Kitchener's Island is one of the most
wonderful places in Aswan.
Being covered with botanical gardens, the island is an
amazing place to relax and walk under the trees.
In the 1890s, Horatio Kitchener was rewarded by this
island because of his successful campaign leading the
Egyptian army in Sudan.
His love of plants and flowers was truly reflected in
this island that he lived in for the rest of his life.
He imported trees, plants, flowers from all regions of
the world transforming the island into an open air flora
museum containing some rare species of plants and
birds. |
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The Agha Khan Mausoleum |
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Being a land
mark of Aswan, the Agha Khan Mausoleum is located in a
deserted hill on the west bank of the Nile.
The Agha Khan III (1877 -1957) the 48th leader of the
Ismailies sect of Shiites was fond of Aswan where he
used to spend the winter every year.
After his death, his widow erected this Fatimid style
tomb for her husband in the place he loved most in his
life.
The Mausoleum is now closed for public visits. |
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