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Many of our Nile cruises set sail from Aswan, the elegant town at the southern end of the river, where Agatha Christie was inspired to write Death on the Nile at the waterside Old Cataract Hotel.

Lake Nasser, the sparkling desert reservoir created when the Nile was dammed here in 1970, dominates the scenery in this part of Egypt, yet there is so much more to this region than its illustrious feats of engineering. Aswan still shimmers with a rich and remarkable past: the Philae temples, wonders of the seventh century BCE, stand proudly above the remodeled waterline, while the Temple of Kom Ombo is another archaeological draw for visitors to this stretch of the Nile.

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