three days tour aswan and abu simbel from marsa alam

Early in the Morning at 05:00 am You will be picked up from Hurghada hotel or Port Ghalib Hotels to Aswan by Private vehicle, It takes 4 hours driving.

You will visit the High dam, Phiala temple, the Unfinished Obelisk and Enjoy sailing on the Nile with Egyptians Felucca

Phiala temple:

Built to honor the goddess Isis, this was the last temple built in the classical Egyptian style. Construction began around 690 BC, and it was one of the last outposts where the goddess was worshipped.

The High Dam:

Aswan High Dam is a rock-fill dam located at the northern border between Egypt and Sudan. The dam is fed by the River Nile and the reservoir forms Lake Nasser. Construction for the project began in 1960 and was completed in 1968. It was officially inaugurated in 1971.

The Unfinished Obelisk :

Aswan was the source of ancient Egypt’s the finest granite used to make statues and embellish temples, pyramids, and obelisks.

The large unfinished obelisk in the Northern Quarries has provided valuable insight into how these monuments were created, although the full construction process is still not entirely clear. Three sides of the shaft, nearly 42m long, were completed except for the inscriptions. At 1168 tonnes, the completed obelisk would have been the single heaviest piece of stone the Egyptians ever fashioned.


 

Pick up time from your hotel in Aswan and Drive to Abu Simbel, start at 04:00 am, arrival in Abu Simbel at 07: 00, Visit the two great temples of Ramses the second and his Wife Queen Nefertari,Drive back to Aswan at 10:00 arrival at 13:00,Lunch in Aswan,then Visit the temple of Goddess Isis on Phiala island with Motorboat, Then drive back to Marsa Alam .

After breakfast Move to Kom Ompo temple

The temples of Kom Ombo:

Kom Ombo. Of all the ancient Temples in Egypt, this is the only one which is divided into two, to reflect it’s dedication to two Gods: Sobek, the Crocodile God of fertility; and the falcon-headed Horus, God of the sky. Kom Ombo is also famous for the depictions of surgeon's instruments, giving us an early record of medicine and surgery in Ancient Egypt

Then Move to Edfu temple :

he huge Ptolemaic Temple of Horus at Edfu, the most complete and best preserved of the Egyptian Temples, consisting of many columns, halls, chambers, and chapels.



Two statues of Horus flank the twin-towered entrance gate and inside, an interesting inscription lists the titles of books (scrolls) held in the library