Luxor Trip Overview
At 6:00 am Pickup from your Hotel or Nile Cruise in Luxor by Emo Tours Licensed Tour guide then you will be transferred by Private A/C Vehicle to Edfu City where you visit Temple of Horus in Edfu The Temple of Edfu it’s an ancient Egyptian temple located on the west bank of the Nile in the city of Edfu around an 1hr south of Luxor it was known in Greco-Roman times as Apollonopolis Magna, after the chief god Horus-Apollo.
It is one of the best preserved temples in Egypt. The temple, dedicated to the falcon god Horus, was built in the Ptolemaic period between 237 and 57 BCE. The inscriptions on its walls provide important information on language, myth and religion during the Greco-Roman period in ancient Egypt after you done your visit to Edfu Continue drive to Kom Ombo City where you you will visit the Temple of Kom Ombo it’s an unusual double temple built during the Ptolemaic dynasty in the Egyptian town of Kom Ombo.
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Duration: 12 hours
Starts: Luxor, Egypt
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt
At 6:00 am Pickup from your Hotel or Nile Cruise in Luxor by Emo Tours Licensed Tour guide then you will be transferred by Private A/C Vehicle to Edfu City where you visit Temple of Horus in Edfu The Temple of Edfu it’s an ancient Egyptian temple located on the west bank of the Nile in the city of Edfu around an 1hr south of Luxor it was known in Greco-Roman times as Apollonopolis Magna, after the chief god Horus-Apollo.
It is one of the best preserved temples in Egypt. The temple, dedicated to the falcon god Horus, was built in the Ptolemaic period between 237 and 57 BCE. The inscriptions on its walls provide important information on language, myth and religion during the Greco-Roman period in ancient Egypt after you done your visit to Edfu Continue drive to Kom Ombo City where you you will visit the Temple of Kom Ombo it’s an unusual double temple built during the Ptolemaic dynasty in the Egyptian town of Kom Ombo.
Stop At: Temple of Horus, Adfo, Edfu Egypt
The Temple of Edfu, or the Temple of Horus , is the second temple of ancient Egypt in size, after the Temple of Karnak , located in the city of Edfu in Upper Egypt on the west bank of the Nile, which was known during the Hellenistic period in colloquial Greek as (Ἀπόλλωνος πόλις) and in Latin ( Apollonopolis Magna ), representing the temple One of the last attempts of the Ptolemies to build temples along the lines of their ancestors’ style and grandeur. It took about 180 years to build the Temple of Horus.
Duration: 4 hours
Stop At: Temple of Kom Ombo, Nagoa Ash Shatb, Markaz Kom Ombo, Aswan Governorate, Egypt
The Temple of Kom Ombo is an unusual double temple in the town of Kom Ombo in Aswan Governorate, Upper Egypt. It was constructed during the Ptolemaic dynasty, 180–47 BC.[1] Some additions to it were later made during the Roman period.
Duration: 4 hours
Stop At: Temple of Philae, Island of Agilika, Aswan Egypt
Philae (/ˈfaɪliː/; Greek: Φιλαί or Φιλή and Πιλάχ, Arabic: فيلة Egyptian Arabic: [fiːlæ], Egyptian: p3-jw-rķ’ or ‘pA-jw-rq; Coptic: ⲡⲓⲗⲁⲕ, ⲡⲓⲗⲁⲕϩ) is an island in the reservoir of the Aswan Low Dam, downstream of the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, Egypt. Philae was originally located near the expansive First Cataract of the Nile in Upper Egypt and was the site of an Egyptian temple complex.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Aswan High Dam, Manteqet As Sad Al Aali, Aswan Egypt
The Aswan Dam, or more specifically since the 1960s, the Aswan High Dam, is the world’s largest embankment dam, which was built across the Nile in Aswan, Egypt, between 1960 and 1970. Its significance largely eclipsed the previous Aswan Low Dam initially completed in 1902 downstream
Duration: 1 hour
