Aswan City

Great seniors escapes

Departs December 28. WET AND WILD: For the adventure-minded, a cruise to the Australian and New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands may be just the thing. Cruise liner Orion has a range of expedition specialists aboard its tours in...

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The Abu Simbel Relocation

Moving One of Egypt's Greatest Monuments For 3000 years the temples of Abu Simbel sat on its ancient site, but when the building of a dam that would flood the site was propsed, achaeologists rushed to save them. Lost once to...

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Nile Cruise Holidays in Egypt

Zahra Cruise is a luxurious choice and a fantastic way to visit some of Egypt’s most famous temples and tombs. Aswan When you select the Oberoi Zhara Nile Cruise, your holiday in Egypt begins in Aswan, where the Old Cataract...

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2 trains collide in deadly Egyptian crash

CAIRO, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- A passenger train bound to the Egyptian tourist destination of Aswan struck another train Saturday in a deadly crash south of Cairo, officials said. At least 14 people were killed, Sky News reported....

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Book - "World Heritage Sites"

is a great reminder that it isn't just land that we need to protect, but the hundreds of thousands of treasures from ancient civilizations, cultural relics, natural habitats and other sites important to human history. The...

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Egyptian cultural festival concludes

New Delhi, Oct 10 : Aswan, the ethnic dance troupe from Egypt, kept the audiences enthralled with their music and dance numbers as the week-long Egyptian cultural festival came to a close here last night. The concluding...

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10 Things to Do in Egypt

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Where would you visit if you could go anywhere in the world, and cost were not a factor? I haven’t done a travel tips video for a week or so, so I decided it was past...

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Egypt: Police Crack Down on Breaking Ramadan Fast

Controversy in Egypt this week as police in the southern city of Aswan arrested 155 Muslims for allegedly not observing the Ramadan fast. According to officials, the people were detained for publicly eating, drinking, or...

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Reaching out to the regions

Gamal Mubarak's recent visit to Nubia draws attention to an oft neglected area of Egypt, reports Gamal Essam El-Din When President Hosni Mubarak was in Washington for a meeting with US President Barack Obama on 18 August, he...

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Lady's fingers and hibiscus

Gamal Nkrumah washes away authentic Nubian dishes with herbal drinks that taste of the epic saga of Nubia's rich cultural heritage An aged Nubian remembers the good old days before the construction of the Aswan High Dam and the...

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