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\u00a0 \u00a0 We flew this morning from Cairo to Aswan, in the south of Egypt. \u00a0 We looked\u00a0at the Aswan High Dam and Lake Nasser and the earlier British dam.\u00a0 Then we took a boat over to the Philae Temple, or Temple of Isis, and spent a fair amount of time exploring it. \u00a0 Next,\u00a0we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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