Oriental Tours Egypt offers a great opportunity to have a wonderful Luxor day tours to Abu Simbel and Aswan to visit famous historical sites in Aswan such as the fantastic Philae Temple and Abu Simbel temples. Enjoy a motor boat riding to the Nubian Village which is settled at the bottom of the Philae Island and ...
Oriental Tours Egypt offers a great opportunity to have a wonderful Luxor day tours to Abu Simbel and Aswan to visit famous historical sites in Aswan such as the fantastic Philae Temple and Abu Simbel temples. Enjoy a motor boat riding to the Nubian Village which is settled at the bottom of the Philae Island and discovers the natural and simple life of the hospitable Nubian people.
Day 1: Luxor to Aswan Sightseeing Tours
In the early morning, one of Oriental tour’s representative will meet you at your hotel in Luxor to be transferred to Aswan to start your amazing Luxor day touring wonderful historical place. After approximately 3 hours and a half, you will arrive at the Philae Temple which was built for the Goddess Isis. After visiting the Philae Temple, you will have your lunch at local restaurant in Aswan, and then you will resume the program of Luxor day tours. You will go on board of motor boat to a Nubian Village which settled at the bottom of the Philae Island to discover the life and the kindness of the Nubian people finally you will check-in at your hotel in Aswan overnight stay.
Day 2: Abu Simbel Trip from Aswan
In the early morning, you will be accompanied by your tour guide to start another day of Luxor day tours program and your driver to visit Abu Simbel temple which located in Abu Simbel village is a great temple from two massive rock temples. They are situated on the western bank of Lake Nasser about 230 KM south west Aswan.
The UNESCO has transferred the temple from Abu Simbel to Philae Island. During the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses II 13 Century B.C he has ordered carve this temple on the mountain side as a lasting monument to himself and his queen Nefertari. there is an astronomical phenomenon that happens in this holy temple where the sculptures are lit two days every year on 22 February and 21 October.
As a matter of fact, those lit statues belong to namely three phases, the first one was placed on my right-hand side with a body of a man and a head of a hawk representing the God of Sun. while the second one was the statue of king Ramses II and after him comes the third statue of Amun. Ideally, only those three statues that witness this phenomenon while the fourth statue which is placed right after them doesn’t witness any light alignment that’s because this fourth statue belongs to ‘’Ptah’’ who was the symbol of the after-death world back then representing the dark side of the world in the ancient Egyptian doctrine, as such, lighting this statue would have been inconsistent with his job.
Afterwards, you will have your lunch at local restaurant and then you will be transferred back to your hotel. We hope that you will enjoy our Luxor day tours program and to have good memories of this trip.
