Aswan Dam

Our first stop was to view the Aswan Dam, built over half a century ago (1902), now demoted to the rank of a mere reservoir dam by the new great High Dam, the Sad el Ali some 4 1/2 miles south of the earlier dam, The crown of the dam is over three miles long, 164 ft. thick and towers more than 360 ft. above the river bed. The inland lake crated by the dam is more than 375 miles long penetrating some 155 miles into the territory of the Sudan. Lake Nasser is the largest manmade Lake in the world. The Nile River is damned.