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Images in this gallery relate to Aswan in southern Egypt covering the city, the River Nile and related sites except for more important places such as Philae, The Nubian Museum and Seheil Island Rock carvings.
Aswan River Scene EG052833jhp Egypt Aswan river Nile boat riverbank cow trees farming scene Nubian village excursion and part of a trip to visit an exhibition Nubian Village but passed by boats travelling to the cataract islands such as Seheil or on the traditional afternoon sail offered in most tour packages and one route for those visiting the Monastery of St Simeon. What is also important is the close awareness of the inhospitable nature of the cataracts, now benign because of the impact of the two dams across the river, but imagining these huge rocks in a Nile inundation and one could understand the barrier that it created for those travellers trying to head further south by boat. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, ancient, Aswan, city, River, Nile, Nubia, Nubian, water, riverside, riverbank, 2005, upright, palm, trees, travel, tourists, tourism, cruise, islands, wildlife, birds, desert, inundation, flooding, farming, cattle, cow, tethered, boat, anchored, shade
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Aswan in general
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Aswan River Scene EG052833jhp
Upload Date: 2005-04-28 13:04:02
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Egypt Aswan river Nile boat riverbank cow trees farming scene

Nubian village excursion and part of a trip to visit an exhibition Nubian Village but passed by boats travelling to the cataract islands such as Seheil or on the traditional afternoon sail offered in most tour packages and one route for those visiting the Monastery of St Simeon. What is also important is the close awareness of the inhospitable nature of the cataracts, now benign because of the impact of the two dams across the river, but imagining these huge rocks in a Nile inundation and one could understand the barrier that it created for those travellers trying to head further south by boat.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, ancient, Aswan, city, River, Nile, Nubia, Nubian, water, riverside, riverbank, 2005, upright, palm, trees, travel, tourists, tourism, cruise, islands, wildlife, birds, desert, inundation, flooding, farming, cattle, cow, tethered, boat, anchored, shade