Temple, Kom-Ombo valley.

Extensive wall carving.

Elsa in a Nile gauge.

Lovely carved columns.

Elsa outside temple.

Sebek religion crocodile gods.

Friends in front of God Horus. Locals on front of store.

Temples and statuaries. If my memory serves me right, in the temple at Kom-Ombo, there are glass mummified crocodiles. Sebek also spelled Sobek, was an ancient Egyptian religion. The crocodile god, whose chief sanctuary was in the Fayyum province, included a live sacred crocodile, in whom the god was believed to be incarnated. Sebek may have been an early fertility god and may have been associated with death before becoming a major deity and a patron of kings in the Middle Kingdom (c. 1850–c. 1630 BC). Horus was another ancient Egyptian religion, the god was in the form of a falcon, whose eyes were the sun and the moon. Falcon cults were widespread in Egypt. However, the perception was that the reigning king was a manifestation of Horus and, after Egypt had been united by the kings from Nekhen, this became a generally accepted (believe) dogma. We also visited the Aswan High Dam. A rock-fill dam across the Nile River, at Aswan. It was completed in 1970 (and was formally inaugurated in January 1971) at a cost of about $1 billion. The dam is 364 feet (111 m) high, with a total length of 12,562 feet (3,830 m) and has a volume of 57,940,000 cubic yards (44,300,000 cubic m). It (encloses)impounds a reservoir, known as Lake Nasser and has a gross water capacity of 5.97 trillion cubic feet (169 billion cubic m). This and the displacement of the Great temple of Ramases II, at Abu Simbel, was a modern pharaoh's feat that was compared with the pyramids.

Elsa on Aswan's High Dam. Children rowing a box.

Unfinished Obelisk.

Aswan High Dam.

View from Aga Khan mausoleum.

Elsa on a felucca boat.

A small open market.

Waterpipe smokers.