I've taken it at Aswan, so near the border with Sudan..
Some verses by a poet from there, about the Nile..

O River Nile, father
To what deserts are you taking my reflections? You depart
And I stand among the horses, by your gate,
And my soul would embark on a holy journey too,
For the silence suspended between us
Is a language floating among the ruins of a beautiful, vanished past.

Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi