It's our last day in Aswan and, after a leisurely breakfast, we headed off down the Corniche that borders the Nile. Our destination was a small Ptolemaic temple dedicated to ISIS that was about a mile from our hotel. It was an easy walk and we found the temple in a fenced, dusty depression encircled by apartment buildings.
It was petite, compared to the likes of Edfu, and was probably no more than 30m square. After exploring this fun sized monument we headed back towards the hotel, taking a diversion through the public gardens next to the old cataract hotel. We paused for coffee there and took in the rather fine view of the temple ruins at the southern end of Elephantine island.
We then headed back to the Obelisk hotel and relaxed by the pool. I read and 30% sunbathed.
Our last excursion was a trip over to Elephantine for a late lunch/early dinner at the King Jamaica restaurant ... a rather tasty Egyptian mixed grill with Nubian mint tea to wash it down.
Then it was back to the hotel to pack, watch our last sunset and a final G&T on the terrace. We were both in bed before nine as we have a horrifically early start tomorrow morning.
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