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ASWAN: The first cataract  The tiny ferry between Aswan centre and the island of Elephantine. Elephantine Island, just outside the centre of Aswan, is one of the highlights of Egyptian nature. Dark yellow stones, where green trees grow out of nothing, framed by the sky that's always blue, and the Nile, even more blue. Elephantine Island housed a sizable Jewish community some 400-500 years BCE, but it remains an enigma what happened to them. On the other side of the Nile, the western, you can see the Aga Khan mausoleum, which is very new, but has it's charm through being the shrine over the celebrity-imam dying in 1957. And it's one of the few landmarks in the nearest vicinity of Aswan.  Overlooking the islands of Aswan, with the city to the left Among the major attractions of Aswan are of course the Aswan Dams. There are two. The first was finished in 1902, and was the largest in the world in its days. The new one was completed in 1971, and came as a result of the higher needs of the increasing Egyptian population. But it's far from containing it's maximum amount of water, due to low water in the Nile up from Aswan. 
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