Aswan Trip Overview
Join a camel ride to the southern tip of Elephantine Island where you will find St Simeon’s Monastery, an ancient, abandoned fortress monastery mostly built during the 7th century and located near Aswan.
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Duration: 3 hours 30 minutes
Starts: Aswan, Egypt
Trip Category: Tours & Sightseeing >> Half-day Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Aswan, Nile River Valley, Egypt
Join a camel ride to the southern tip of Elephantine Island where you will find St Simeon’s Monastery, an ancient, abandoned fortress monastery mostly built during the 7th century and located near Aswan.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Elephantine Island, Across the Nile from Aswan Two parts to this Island, Aswan Egypt
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Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Monastery of St. Simeon, Aswan Egypt
The monastery was given the name St Simeon by archaeologists and travelers, but earlier Arabic and Coptic sources called it Anba Hatre (Hidra, Hadri, Hadra), after an anchorite who was consecrated a bishop of Syene (now Aswan) by Patriarch Theophilus (385-412 AD).
Anba Hatre married at the age of eighteen. Tradition says that just after the wedding, he encountered a funeral procession which inspired him to preserve his chastity and later become a disciple of Saint Baiman.
After eight years of ascetic practices under the supervision of his teacher, he retired to the desert and applied himself to the study of the life of Saint Antony. He died during the time of Theodosius I.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
