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Aswan’s floating hotel fleet affecting Egypt’s main water reservoir
Image via Wikipedia Sources close to Tourism Minister Zoheir Garana say the ministry has approved licenses for 19 new floating hotels to operate on Lake Nasser, bringing the total to 25. The ministry has also agreed to build a new marina to replace the makeshift dock currently used to berth cruise ships. The price tag... »
Against illegal display of Nile crocodile
Image by Dave Govoni (Va bene!) via Flickr The Egyptian government has launched a campaign to curb the growing trend among hotels and bazaars in the country to illegally showcase to tourists the endangered Nile crocodile, once worshipped by ancient Egyptians. Ministry of Environment’s teams in coordination with police have recorded violations in Luxor. It has... »
Fatal diseases caused by Nile pollution linked to floating hotels
The waters of the Nile in Aswan are suffering due to the dumping of waste from fishing boats and river transport between Egypt and Sudan. Such boats produce a type of bacteria which is difficult to eradicate because of the stagnancy of the water. The poor operation and maintenance of tourist boats and ferries in... »
UNESCO celebrates Nubian salvage at Aswan
Fifty years on from the earnest appeal sent out from Egypt and Sudan for an international salvage campaign for the Nubian monuments, UNESCO will be celebrating this important anniversary with the conference: ‘Lower Nubia: Revisiting memories of the past, envisaging perspectives for the future’ to be held on March 21-24. With the construction of the... »
The Winter Vault
Award-winning poet and novelist Anne Michaels gives us in The Winter Vault a love story of extraordinary depth and complexity, a mesmerizing tale that juxtaposes historical events with the most intimate moments of individual lives. In 1964, a newly married Canadian couple settles into a Nile River houseboat moored below the towering figures of Abu... »
Development plan along Lake Nasser unfair to Egyptian Nubians
Image via Wikipedia Nubians, now numbering about 3 million of Egypt’s 73 million people, have been leaving their stretch of the Nile valley for more than a century — some because of poverty, some because of efforts to tame the river’s annual floods. The first dam near Aswan was built in 1902; subsequent ones obliterated... »
