Marsa Alam Trip Overview
We offer Private two days tour to Aswan Abo simple from Marsa Alam hotels depart to Aswan Highlights The High Dam The Temple of Goddess Isis on Phiala island The Unfinished Obelisk and Visit Abu Simbel, Ramses the Second most great work. and the Temple of the Queen Nefertari .
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Duration: 2 days
Starts: Marsa Alam, Egypt
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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We offer Private two days tour to Aswan Abo simple from Marsa Alam hotels depart to Aswan Highlights The High Dam The Temple of Goddess Isis on Phiala island The Unfinished Obelisk and Visit Abu Simbel, Ramses the Second most great work. and the Temple of the Queen Nefertari .
Itinerary
Day 1: Aswan day 1
Stop At: Aswan High Dam, Manteqet As Sad Al Aali, Aswan Egypt
Drive to the High Dam of Aswan, an engineering miracle when it was built in the 1960s. From the top of the High Dam, you can gaze across Lake Nasser to the Kalabsha temple in the south and the huge power station to the north.
Duration: 40 minutes
Stop At: Philae, Aswan 1, Aswan Governorate, Egypt
• 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 worshiped
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Unfinished Obelisk, Sheyakhah Oula, Aswan Egypt
the Unfinished Obelisk in the granite quarries of Aswan, where much of the red granite used for ancient temples and colossi came from. The Unfinished Obelisk still lies where it was carved when a crack was discovered as it was being hewn from the rock. Your qualified Egyptologist guide will explain how the 1-tonne obelisk was carved, and why the crack caused it to be abandoned.
Duration: 40 minutes
Meals included:
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Accommodation included: One night at a 3 stars hotel in Aswan
Day 2: Aswan day 2
Stop At: Abu Simbel Temple Complex, Abu Simbel, Abu Simbel Egypt
The two rituals of Ramses the second and the Queen Nefertari were carved out of the Mountain on the west bank of the Nile between 1274 and 1244 Bc, The Great Temple was dedicated to Ramses the second Ra Harakhty, Amun Ra and Ptah, with 4 Colossal statues The second temple was dedicated to The Queen Nefertari and Goddess Hathor, the two temples were dismounted stone by stone and rebuilt on higher groun The preservation of the two temples of Abu Simbel must Rank as the greatest Achievement of the Unesco Lunch in Aswan, Then drive back to your hotel in Marsa Alam
Duration: 2 hours
Meals included:
• Lunch
No accommodation included on this day.
