Aswan Trip Overview
Visit two remarkable ancient sites on a full-day private tour to visit Kom ombo and Edfu temples from Aswan. You’ll travel along the Nile Valley to the Temple of Kom ombo, an unusual double temple was dedicated jointly to Sobek and Haroeris. Then continue to visit the temple of Horus at Edfu, the best preserved cult-temple in Egypt. With pickup and drop-off at hotels, this full-day trip is a hassle-free way to explore Egyptian antiquity, and the experienced guide will help bring each site to life. Later on, drive on to Luxor or return back to your hotel in Aswan
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Duration: 8 hours
Starts: Aswan, Egypt
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Aswan, Nile River Valley, Egypt
Visit two remarkable ancient sites on a full-day private tour to visit Kom ombo and Edfu temples from Aswan. You’ll travel along the Nile Valley to the Temple of Kom ombo, an unusual double temple was dedicated jointly to Sobek and Haroeris. Then continue to visit the temple of Horus at Edfu, the best preserved cult-temple in Egypt. With pickup and drop-off at hotels, this full-day trip is a hassle-free way to explore Egyptian antiquity, and the experienced guide will help bring each site to life. Later on, drive on to Luxor or return back to your hotel in Aswan
Itinerary
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Stop At: Temple of Kom Ombo, Nagoa Ash Shatb, Kom Ombo 81611 Egypt
Your Nile Holiday tour guide will pick you up from your hotel in Luxor to visit the temples of Kom Ombo standing on high grounds overlooking the Nile. Unlike most ancient Egyptian temples, is dedicated to two gods, the crocodile god Sobek and the falcon god Haroeris “Horus the Elder”. The temple is atypical because everything is perfectly symmetrical along the main axis. The existing temple was begun by Ptolemy VI Philometor (180–145 BC) and continued under later rulers, most notably Ptolemy XIII (47-44 BC), who built the inner and outer hypostyle halls. At one time crocodiles basked on the River banks. A few of the some 300 mummified crocodiles found here are on display in the small on-site Crocodiles museum.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Temple of Horus, Adfo, Edfu Egypt
Drive on to visit the temple of Edfu, is considered to be the best preserved cult temple in Egypt. Dedicated to Horus the falcon headed god which according to the Egyptian myths, it was the place where the falcon-headed god Horus revenged the murder of his father Osiris by killing Seth. The present structure dates from the Ptolemaic period (332 – 30 B.C.) and is remarkable in that it is the only known temple ever to have been completed in ancient Egypt.
After finished, you will be transferred to your hotel in Luxor or Return back to your hotel in Aswan
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
