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graves in the rocks
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After the stone pit we drive to the Nasser Dam of Aswan. But before we arrive there we cross the old, two kilometres long dam (started running in 1902) and then go to the new, 3,5 kilometres long dam Sadd el-Ali, which supplies since 1971 large parts of North Egypt with electricity.

the old dam Power station in the Nasser lake

But that is a lot under the hope for. On the one hand the Russian constructors had calculated the flow rate wrong and on the other hand the evaporation of the 500 kilometres Nassar Lake were underestimated.
Instead of informing of this, boasts our tour guide that the agricultural lands can be strongly expanded thanks to the dam and the acres now all year round be managed. Besides, the danger of the high water would be banished as much as possible. Unmentioned one remains that many Fellahn cannot afford the required artificial fertilizer.
On my further inquiry he assures me that there is also no danger of epidemics by spreading out pests. He knows about a Bilharziose the transferring snail kind which spreads out in the constantly water-leading ditches apparently nothing.

the new dam of the president Nasser
Look to the first Nile cataract Transformer station below the traffic jam wall

When we get out, he points out us still to the fact that the high-level dam is a military area and we may stay only in the middle part. Now well, the ambience of the touristic zone resembles a little a busy resting place. A few info boards explain the planning’s which had released once the Suez crisis, and every now and then a few soldiers show up that also nobody has the idea to turn a small video. This is as forbade since as the walk in the wide footpath directly above the stream work.
Look of the traffic jam wall to the Nubian Galapscha temple Nasser Lake
and we are there also

Nevertheless, the view after the south is huge! Several boats wait for her next journey straight across the lake to Abu Simbel or bring excursionist to Nubian Galapscha to temple on the western sea shore.
But this won’t stay like this for long. The huge amount of mud which was washed on the fields downwards the Nile, even before the dam was built, is now deposing on the ground of the river. In about 500 years the river will be silted up.
Nevertheless, the dam is a must-see for every cruise on the Nile.

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