Aswan Dam

Visit one of the well-known milestones in Aswan is Aswan Dam, it is concentrate on the great changes and progressive of the modern Egypt, this dam was constructed by the Egyptian president Gamal Abd El Nasser, he decided to build a high dam because of the flooding of the Nile River, which badly affected many lands in Egypt, so this amazing project began in 1960 and ended completely in 1971, and also left an area that was flooded by the Nile River and turned into the largest artificial lake in the World, it’s called it Nasser Lake, and then it became an important Lake in Egypt where its water is exploited in providing electricity. 

With White Bird Travel you will be excited to visit one of the most important projects in Modern Egypt that will impress you, the High Dam; while you take a trip to this wonderful dam. This huge building is 1 km wide, 3.5 km long and 111 m high; this impressive dam also has a six-turbine hydropower plant capable of providing 2.1 million kilowatt. This project was the perfect solution due to the losses and damage of lands that Egypt suffered, especially the monuments in the Nubian villages, moreover, there was much hard work done by the powerful Egyptian builders and the Egyptian government in addition to assisting UNESCO and many other States, to save precious Nubian monuments.