One of the driest inhabited places in the world, Aswan is a city in the south of Egypt. It stands on the east bank of the Nile and is a busy market and tourist center. Aswan is some 680km (425 miles) south of Cairo, just below the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, is far more relaxed and smaller than Cairo and Luxor. The smallest of […]
Cancelled trip to Egypt as per advice from UK Foreign Office, means travel here is now dead until peace is restored. Three hours into my flight the captain announces we are diverted to Athens. Later it is confirmed the flight landed due to a bomb scare as reported by the BBC. The rising unrest in Egypt and the […]