The beautiful city of Aswan (Nile ancient mysteries of the circular tour)

In Cairo tour after a day, we didn't stay in Cairo, but to take the train and left to the southern city of Aswan.

Our boat trip from Aswan Nile River.

Cairo railway station is very simple, as the capital of the station some shabby.

Station no indoor restaurants, other facilities is also very small. Good in the region almost no rain, no cold winter, outdoors, cars. The station's limited seat full waiting passengers, we stood waiting for a bus.

Access to different areas of the train a column after column to open the common characteristic is old and dirty.

We get on the train revealed that the car is fairly clean. We sat in a luxury vehicle, luxury is not, but clean and comfortable or met the requirements.

(Figure 1-station no indoor waiting room)

A sleeper for foreign tourists dedicated, two persons room is very small, but the design is very clever.

Just get on the train, we do not see a bed, only saw a large sofa. To go to bed, the conductor came in Kazan there two, a few seconds will give us the "change" gave two of our country but also wide soft Sleeper beds, bedding is very clean, very comfortable sleeping up! box there you can open a small breakfast, wash basin, SOAP, towels, one-time hanging clothes hangers are also very complete, just need to go out on a toilet. The couple who live in it, convenience, privacy, very suitable for people in need.

6: 30 pm by car, near the conductor brought us to a dinner, like aircraft set meal, chicken, beef, bread, yoghurt, Apple.

Beverage is charged, depending on the car price list provided, fruit juice, coffee, tea, 5 3 EGP Egyptian pounds, local beer 17 EGP/listen. Boiling water is free of charge. In order to meet the needs of drinking water in arid regions, we take the electric kettle, cups and tea, proved to be correct. I would like tea, the amount of drinking water per day for at least a thermos bottle, tours one day supply a bottle of mineral water, meet our needs.

After dinner, is China time midnight, Egypt and China with five-hour time difference.

Probably because the day a day of hard work and time, came to Egypt's first feel asleep.

In the morning, the conductor came to breakfast, is served with butter and jam with four bread, free choice of tea or coffee.

The train service is almost with stars, than most of the hotel.

At eight o'clock in the morning, we reach the beautiful city of Aswan.

Aswan name for Chinese people, not strange, because here there is world famous for the Aswan Dam.

Aswan is Egypt's southern most important cities with a population of 50 million, the iron and steel, electric power, sugar refining, textiles, leather and other industries, is leading to Sudan's portal.

(Figure 3-Aswan is referred to as Egypt's clean and beautiful city)

Aswan has the most beautiful River Nile River, the River across the desert, from here into the first waterfall in the island.

Here there are many historical monuments, the Temple of Abu usimbe, bafile Temple, the largest of the Obelisk. Aswan is also known as Egypt the cleanest and most beautiful cities along the Nile binhe road, take a walk, see as far as the scenery. UNESCO has chosen Aswan as the world's five creative city network in the folk-art city.

Aswan actually has two dams.

The old dam was built in 1898-1902, 2152 m long, was built in the United Kingdom. In 1960, Nasser led the Government of Egypt in the old dam upstream 6 km, start building new dams, built in July 1970. We go to visit the new dam, back and forth from the old dam on the cross.

From 1960 to 1970, Egypt spent a thousand workers took 10 years to build the Aswan Dam.

112 m high dam, long 3830 m, width 40 meters, a total of $ 4300 million cubic metres of rockfill. The High Dam magnificent, the serpentine tortuosity of Nile axed, forming hills of the artificial lake – Lake Nasser. The Lake long 650 km, widest point 25 km, is the second largest artificial lake in the world.

From dams come into play, nearly 40 million hectares of land desertification made fertile fields of the Nile Valley, and another 100 000 hectares of land because you can get all the water to moisten and cooked from year one to two cooked, Egypt of agricultural production value thus doubled.

Dam annual power generation accounts for 80 million kilowatts, Egypt with 70% of the total 4000 a beautiful villages from lit.

(Figure 7-dam on hydropower station)

However there will always be on the back of light.

Aswan Dam control the Nile for thousands of years the cycle of abuse, fertile silt can nourish the coastal and Delta's land, which led to:

One is the phenomenon serious soil salinization;

Second, farmers had to buy expensive chemical fertilizers and pesticides, farmers falling real incomes;

The third is the fertilizer pesticide has brought new environmental issues so that downstream water quality deterioration, directly affects the health of the people of downstream;

Fourth river sediment concentration reduction, Nile Delta's shoreline in the back;

Fifth, the large amounts of sediment deposition due to flow deceleration but, effective storage capacity has been reduced and the huge reservoir surface and make the water evaporating capacity has increased significantly, in each of the additional losses is 11% of the capacity of the reservoir, dam economic benefits continue to decrease;

VI is used to propagate schistosomiasis shuishe will die in the dry season, and now as a water supply to the survival and rapidly shuishe to multiply, thus increasing the incidence of schistosomiasis.

In front of various painful lesson, people have started to reflect on the previous action, Egypt specially established "Aswan Dam side effects Research Institute", and take a variety of remedies.

Nonsense, or the powerIs the time to give the best answer.

(Figure 11-we want to take the "Volt Lucas" dhow)

Travel ads have a segment: traditional wind sailing larvae, arranged in the Nile River, accompanied by the Nubian songs, drunk with the Nile's charms, like Egypt gaudily, lazy after enjoying romantic.

19 October, we sat on the known as the "Volt Lucas" dhow cruising the Nile, Egypt people experiencing ancient aquatic life.

Sailing the Nile water has always been the means of transport. From the earliest of the three-masted sailing ship, for a two-masted sailing ship development, is now a single mast. It was at the helm, the zigzag path.

Sitting in the boat, the clear river flows slowly from the side of the ship, slowly savor of his face, blue sky and the golden sun rays in the Nile, the Islamic people prayer wafts from afar from time to time.

I now close your eyes and body as the hull's swing and free stretch; sometimes with both hands touch the freshthis River, to feel the pulse of the Nile and the voice of the heart suddenly quiet!, many days to exhaustion.

Boat hand is two Nubian guy.

Egypt-Nubia about 15 million people, most of the agricultural and small handicrafts for a living, began working in the tourism sector. They clung to life in this land, is Aswan rightful owners. Due to transportation, subject to external influence is relatively rare, Nubian has maintained a simple folk custom and unique way of life. From the appearance, they are more like African blacks instead of Arabs.

Ship in the wind blows down the straight lines, the vessel started easily, in order to increase our travel guides, from time to time some humming first Nubian minor; bend, they must be hands and feet, while at the helm, and torn sails, the ability to control the ship when it fully reflected.

Boat tour to end, the two vessels hand gaily sing and dance.

See Nubian is a fine mixture of nationalities. Subject to their infection, some young people to join their ranks, learn their way while singing while stepping on the beat frantically dancing snacks.

The Sun is about downhill, blushed, Aswan city shrouded in Wan DAO xiaguang.

Soon, the hills on the West Bank of the Nile just the Sun's rays, increasingly dark sky, sunset red slowly into the pink, pink. At the same time, the city lights and bright, xiaguang, lighting crossing together this fall he, constitute a spectrum changing pictures, really.

When the glow is completely disappears, colorful lights look gorgeous.

Aswan-intensive building is colorful lanterns in size, neon lights, light play, sketched into rich layers of stereo "City".

(Figure 16-sunset mappings in Aswan)

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