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La Nubie enfin retrouvee...
Je me suis souvent iterrogee sur le moyen d'atteindre tous ces temples
"demenages", objets de la sollicitude internationale:
mais seuls de nos jours Philae et Abou Simbel, aux deux limites
de la Nubie, demeurent d'acces relativement aise.
En faisant construire votre bateau au Caire et en le reconstruisant
piece par piece en aval de la premiere cataracte, vous allez repeter
- probablement sans le savoir - les hauts faits de vos ancetres...
Au vrai, le veritable chemin pour aborder ces monuments concus pour
etre vus du Nil et approches du Nil, est d'emprunter le fleuve.
Dans ces conditions, les temples apparaissent entoures de leur contexte
poetique et livrent leur message en provoquant ainsi la plus belle
emotion artistique voulue...
Ces temples sauves attendent un tourisme respectuex, recherchant
la calme harmonie et sachant mesurer l'opportunite exceptionelle
offerte par ce voyage unique sur le Nil nubien devenu le lac Nasser...
Ce trajet sur le lac Nasser semble, maintenant, grace a l'initiative
de Moustafa et Tarek El Gendy, prendre l'aspect d'une realite qui
rendra aux yeux des fervents de l' Egypte (combien nombreaux) ce
paradis perdu de la Nubie enfin retrouvee.
Mme. Ch. Desroches-Noblecourt
Inspecteur Generale des musees de France
Return to Nubia...
I have often wondered what might be the best way of reaching these
temples, now that worldwide concern has moved them away from their
original sites. Nowadays, only Philae and Abu Simbel, at the upper
and lower boundaries of Nubia, are fairly easy to reach. In getting
your boat together in Cairo, and rebuilding it piece by piece as
you travel downstream from the first cataract, you'll be reliving,
perhaps unaware, the heroic achievements of your ancestors.
In fact the best way of approaching the monuments, which were designed
to be both seen from the Nile and approached from the Nile, is from
the river itself. This way, the poetic vision of the temples and
their setting speaks to every one of the senses as the most gloriously
fulfilling aesthetic experience.
Saved today from certain destruction, these temples command respect
from those in search of harmony and serenity - those who have taken
this unique opportinity to sail with us down the Nubian Nile into
Lake Nasser.
Today, thanks to the initiative of Moustafa and Tarek El Gendy,
the Lake Nasser trip can at last bring this once lost Nubian paradise
back before the eyes of the many devout admirers of Egypt.
Mrs. Ch. Desroches-Noblecourt
Honorary Inspector General of the Museums of France
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