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Ignoring the residential and industrial suburbs (as every tourist does) greatly simplifies orientation . Although Aswan's sinuous Corniche follows the river bank for over 4km, most things worth noting lie along the 1500-metre stretch between the Palace of Culture and Ferial Gardens (where the road swings inland), culminating in the Old Cataract Hotel facing the southern end of Elephantine Island . Otherwise, the main focus of interest is Sharia al-Souk (aka Sharia Sa'ad Zaghloul), which runs two to three blocks inland as it snakes down from the train station to Sharia Abbas Farid. For about half this distance it is paralleled by another busy thoroughfare, Sharia Abtal el-Tahrir , which runs ever closer to the Corniche but never quite touches it, and finishes up as a narrow backstreet.