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A sanctuary of Isis dismantled stone by stone, then rebuilt on another island.
AswanAgilkia Island
Indigo houses, a dune behind them, and a culture that is nothing like Egyptian.
AswanGharb Soheil, west bank
Nubia before Lake Nasser, and the villages that had to be left behind.
AswanAswan
An obelisk still lying in its quarry, cracked: the one place that shows how they were cut.
AswanQuarries
One sail, no engine: the wind decides how your hour on the river goes.
AswanNile
The island in mid-river: two Nubian villages, ruins, and the nilometer that set the tax.
A whole island turned into a botanical garden, a few minutes by boat from the corniche.
AswanNile, Aswan
A granite jumble covered in inscriptions: floods, expeditions, a seven-year famine.
The work that stopped the Nile flood: the river on one side, a freshwater sea on the other.
AswanThe Dam
A fortified monastery abandoned in the thirteenth century, alone in the west-bank sand.
AswanWest bank
A simple terrace on the corniche, to dine while the feluccas come home.
AswanCorniche, Aswan
A Nubian dinner on the west bank, in a house painted blue and ochre.
AswanGharb Soheil, Aswan
A temple on an island, lit, reached by boat in the dark.
AswanAgilkia island, Aswan
The colossi of Ramesses II lit beside Lake Nasser, once the coaches have left.
AswanAbu Simbel
A double temple, shared between the crocodile Sobek and the falcon Haroeris.
AswanKom Ombo
A Nubian village on a lake island, almost without visitors.
AswanSouth of the dam, Aswan
Aswan's grill house, on the souk street for decades.
AswanSharia el-Souk, Aswan
A restaurant on a Nile island, reachable only by boat.
AswanEssa island, Aswan
