The southernmost city of Egypt comfortably settled on a surprisingly picturesque stretch of the Nile , decorated itself with palm islands and a fleet of charming white feluccas (small ships with triangular sails). Coupled with a separate population of Nubians, who have a separate language and special manners, this city is much more African than the entire north of Egypt. And Aswan – the smallest of all the popular cities on the Nile, where cruise ships stop.
“The ancient Egyptian gates of Africa,” as they call Aswan, became famous for the very granite from which all the obelisks in the vicinity of Luxor