#aswan botanical island
To many, Aswan is a desert landscape: restless winds and traveling dunes, Nile waters lapping at just-green, nearly-green banks, and men in jalabiyas teasing a fire. While not entirely misguided, Aswan is more than an open-air museum for the ancient and unmarked; it is a place of immense beauty and ecological diversity. Nothing speaks more to the fact than Aswan’s Botanical Island. As a natural reserve built on 17 acres of land, it houses some of the rarest, most perennial…
