Best Aswan Attractions: Must-See Places & Sights

The Unfinished Obelisk in Aswan is a granite obelisk still lying in its ancient quarry: about 42 metres long and 1,168 tonnes, abandoned when it cracked, probably under Hatshepsut. Here is what the site shows, seven things most guides skip, the ticket price, hours and how to fit it into an Aswan day.

The Temple of Dakka is a Graeco-Roman temple of Thoth in Lower Nubia, begun in the 3rd century BC by the Meroitic king Arqamani and Ptolemy IV and finished under Augustus and Tiberius. Saved from Lake Nasser in the 1960s, it now stands at New Wadi al-Sebua, reached mostly by Lake Nasser cruise.