Aswan is a city in the south of Egypt with 200,000 people
there. It is on the east bank of the Nile and is a busy market
and tourist center.
Aswan is one of the driest places in the world where people live; as
of early 2001, the last rain there was 6 years earlier. As of October 13, 2007
the last rainfall was a thunderstorm on May 13, 2006. In Nubian settlements, the
people often do not put a roof over all of the rooms in their houses.