Exploring Aswan’s highlights with a private guide means a more flexible and personalized sightseeing experience than on a shared trip. With this half-day tour, you travel with your own Egyptologist guide to the Unfinished Obelisk, Aswan High Dam, and Philae Temple, with the opportunity to view and learn about them as you like. Private air-conditioned transport, a choice of departure times, and hotel, port, and station pickup and drop-off are also included for convenience.
Inclusions & Exclusions
✔ All transfers by private air-conditioned car
✔ Bottled water during the tours
✔ Return way Motor boat ride to philae temple Island
✔ Pick-up and return service
✔ All service charges and taxes
✖ Any extras not mentioned in the itinerary
✖ Optional activities
Pickup Locations
1. Sara Hotel
2. Sofitel Legend Old Cataract Aswan
3. Sun Set Resort
4. Keylany Hotel
5. Oscar Hotel
6. Nile Hotel Aswan
7. Bayt Zaina
8. Paradise Hotel
9. Nubian Plaza Guest House
10. Nubian Oasis Hotel
11. Memnon Hotel
12. Marhaba Hotel
13. Basma Executive Club
14. Pyramisa Isis Island Aswan Resort & Spa
15. Movenpick Resort Aswan
16. Nuba Nile Hotel Aswan
17. Hapi Hotel
18. Philae Hotel
19. Kendaka Nubian House
20. Fenti Camp Resort
Additional Info: We pickup all travelers in Aswan city
Itinerary
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Temple of Philae
Your expert tour guide will pick you up from Aswan (Hotel, Nile Cruise, Train station Or Airport) and accompany you in a guided tour to visit the unfinished obelisk in Aswan northern granite quarry. It was ordered by Hatshepsut, the female pharaoh (1508–1458 BC). It is nearly one third larger than any ancient Egyptian obelisk ever erected. If finished it would have measured around 42 m (approximately 137 feet) and would have weighed nearly 1,200 tons. Proceed to visit the high dam, a rock fill dam built across the Nile in Aswan, between 1960 and 1970 with the aim to regulate the Nile River flooding, to store the water for agriculture and to generate hydro electric power. Enjoy a short motor boat ride to Philae Temple Island, the most ancient structure in the Island was the temple of the Goddess Isis, ordered by the native Pharaoh Nectanebo I (380-362 BC), Nectanebo was a great builder and restore. For the other Temples, Chapels and ruins date from the Ptolemaic times, more especially with the reigns of Ptolemy Philadelphus, Ptolemy Epiphanes, and Ptolemy Philometor (282-145 BC), with many traces of Roman work most notable in the Kiosk of Emperor Trajan (98-117ad), enjoy free time at leisure. You will then be transferred back to your accommodation in Aswan.
Additional info
• Wheelchair accessible
• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Specialized infant seats are available
• Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
• All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
