Egypt
- Travel: Cruising The Royal Route Of The Pharaohs
Ottawa Citizen (Mark Angelo) As our plane approached the town of Aswan in southern Egypt, I could see the meandering Nile below. Beyond the line of the river and the green ribbon of lush irrigated lands that paralleled it, there was nothing but the vast...
- Travel: Aswan
ANBA (Randa Achmawi) The city of Aswan, on the banks of the Nile, 843 kilometres south of Cairo, is renowned as one of the most beautiful sites in Egypt. The cool climate in winter, from December to February, attracts a crowd of European tourists. Aswan...
- Travel: Khawaja Kwais
canada.com (Anne Wood) It is a slow news day so here's something a bit different. Even though this isn't strictly speaking Egyptology, it is certainly travel of a somewhat unconventional sort and it is very engaging. Over five pages Ann Wood describes...
- Travel: Falling For Egypt
Guardian Unlimited - four page version Guardian Unlimited Print version (Lynn Barber) After Cairo, which is hard work with all the fumes and traffic jams, Luxor and Aswan are pure pleasure. Aswan in the far south is where Egypt suddenly feels like Africa...
- Travel: A Visit To Aswan
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/839/tr1.htmOne writer's mixed bag experience of a visit to Aswan: "This was meant to be the review of an exclusive Aswan-to-Luxor Nile cruise -- so exclusive, I was told, there would be no more than eight people on...
Egypt
Travel: Giza to Aswan
http://living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1897942006
A better than usual travel piece about visiting Egypt and what to expect at different sites, from a writer who took the time in advance to read up about the sites he was to visit. He considers in brief everything from individual monuments to shopping in Aswan and environmental damage caused by the Aswan dam: "From Cairo it was a short flight down to the First Cataract, otherwise the setting for Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile and, more prosaically, the site of the giant Aswan Dam. The Egyptians are immensely proud of the dam, but even they admit to the negative, long-term environmental consequences. Without the annual Nile flood, the water table is changing downstream and corrosive salts are now eating into the very fabric of the Nile temples. The Mediterranean has also been deprived of its traditional source of fresh water, which has helped turn that great sea into a cesspool. In ancient times, Aswan was the true border of Egypt. Southwards lay the mysterious and unknown source of the Nile itself. Ramesses the Great extended Egyptian control a lot further south to what is now the border with fratricidal Sudan."
- Travel: Cruising The Royal Route Of The Pharaohs
Ottawa Citizen (Mark Angelo) As our plane approached the town of Aswan in southern Egypt, I could see the meandering Nile below. Beyond the line of the river and the green ribbon of lush irrigated lands that paralleled it, there was nothing but the vast...
- Travel: Aswan
ANBA (Randa Achmawi) The city of Aswan, on the banks of the Nile, 843 kilometres south of Cairo, is renowned as one of the most beautiful sites in Egypt. The cool climate in winter, from December to February, attracts a crowd of European tourists. Aswan...
- Travel: Khawaja Kwais
canada.com (Anne Wood) It is a slow news day so here's something a bit different. Even though this isn't strictly speaking Egyptology, it is certainly travel of a somewhat unconventional sort and it is very engaging. Over five pages Ann Wood describes...
- Travel: Falling For Egypt
Guardian Unlimited - four page version Guardian Unlimited Print version (Lynn Barber) After Cairo, which is hard work with all the fumes and traffic jams, Luxor and Aswan are pure pleasure. Aswan in the far south is where Egypt suddenly feels like Africa...
- Travel: A Visit To Aswan
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/839/tr1.htmOne writer's mixed bag experience of a visit to Aswan: "This was meant to be the review of an exclusive Aswan-to-Luxor Nile cruise -- so exclusive, I was told, there would be no more than eight people on...