Elephantine Island
Ancient Abu at the First Cataract — temples of Khnum and Satet, a nilometer, Nubian villages and five thousand years of frontier history.
Aswan
Monastery of St Simeon (Anba Hadra)
A fortress-like Coptic monastery in the desert above Aswan's west bank, founded in the seventh century and abandoned in the thirteenth.
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