High Dam

Description

The world-famous High Dam was an engineering miracle when it was built in 1960. Today it provides irrigation and electricity for the whole of Egypt, and together with the old Aswan Dam which about 6 Km. downriver, offers wonderful views for visitors. It is two miles long from the top of the High Dam, you can gaze across Nasser Lake, the huge reservoir created when the High Dam was built, at Kalabsha temple in the south and the huge power station to the north.

The Soviet Egyptian Memorial, a giant lotus blossom tower built to symbolize their collaboration and the dam’s benefits, as depicted in heroic, Socialist Realist bas-reliefs. A lofty observation deck, reached by elevator, allow four people at a time to see how the dam’s concrete is crumbling and be stricken by vertigo.