Aswan is a city in the south of Egypt, on the east bank of the Nile
at the first cataract. It's a busy market and tourist center with a population of
about 200,000.
It's one of the driest inhabited places in the world.
Apparently (as of early 2001), the last rain here was 6 years ago. In
Nubian? settlements they generally don't bother to roof all of the rooms in
their houses.
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