Day Tour to Aswan from Luxor

Description

Enjoy full Day Tour to Aswan from Luxor by Road in accompany of an Egyptologist tour guide. Follow the Nile River and passing through farmland and traditional Egyptian villages, you will stop to visit Edfu temple, Kom Ombo Temple, the Unfinished Obelisk, Aswan high dam and Philae Temple of the Goddess Isis. Enjoy your lunch in Aswan before return journey back to Luxor. Optional to Aswan hotel

Highlights

Edfu Temple

Kom Ombo Temple

The Unfinished Obelisk

The High Dam

Philae Island including Isis Temple

Led by a qualified Egyptologist

Get inside tips from a local

Tour is wheelchair accessible

What You Can Expect

At early morning, you will be picked up from your central hotel in Luxor and transfer you to visit Edfu temple, the most complete and best-preserved temple in Egypt. Temple of Horus was constructed between 237 BC and 57 BC during the Ptolemaic Period.

Proceed with a drive for about 70km further south to visit the double Temple of Kom Ombo which has a symmetrical construction; two entrances, two sanctuaries, and a line of symmetry that divides the temple into the domains of Haroeris the falcon and Sobek the crocodile.

Continue to Aswan to visit the unfinished obelisk in Aswan granite quarry. If finished, it would have measured around 42m (approximately 137 feet) and would have weighed nearly 1,200 tons.

Go ahead visit Aswan high dam, a rock fill dam built across the River Nile at Aswan between 1960-1970 to control the Nile Floods and the produce electricity.

Enjoy a motor boat ride to Philae Temple Island, the earliest monuments on the island date to the reign of the last native Egyptian Pharaoh Nectanebo II, while the largest structure on the island is the Temple of Isis, Goddess of magic and healing.

You will be transferred back to your hotel in Luxor. Optional to Aswan hotel

Entrance fees are not included in the price of any tours: We do not charge in advance for site entrance fees to add flexibility to your program as you may choose to skip one or more sites depending upon your interests.