OASIS  - PHARAONS  - SITES  - VILLES

Abu Simbel  -  Musée greco romain  -  Les Catacombes de Kom El Shoufa  -  Les colonnes de Pompeiy  -  Fort Qaitbay  -  Le theatre romain  -  Elephantine Island  -  Kitchener's Island  -  Kalabsha Temple  -  Agha Khan Mausoleum  -  The Unfinished Obelisk  -  The High Dam  -  Les pyramides  -  Sphinx  -  Sakkara  -  Memphis  -  Les musées égyptiens  -  Coptic Cairo and Hanging Church  -  Mohamed Ali Mosque  -  The Citadel  -  Khan el-Khalili  -  Luxor  -  West Bank  -  Colossi of Memnon  -  East Bank

The High Dam

Located near Aswan, the world famous High Dam was an engineering miracle when it was built in the 1960s. Today it provides irrigation and electricity for the whole of Egypt and, together with the old Aswan Dam built by the British between 1898 and 1902`, 6km down river, wonderful views for visitors. From the top of the two Mile long High Dam you can gaze across Lake Nassar, the huge reservoir created when it was built, to Kalabsha temple in the south and the huge power station to the north.