Nubian Home Stay Aswan, Egypt
Day 5
Discover Egypt
I get up this morning and go down to the lobby to meet Jen and Briana as we are off to see the unfinished obelisk. We take a taxi which I'm sure looking back on it we got ripped off on but never mind. The unfinished obelisk is about 80 meters long and was being carved out of the granite quarry in Aswan. It was carved using round pieces of granite which they just kept on hitting against the rock to wear it away. This task must have been s...