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Start Your Excellent Tour To Explore The Historical Sites In Aswan Beginning With The Amazing Philae Temple Dedicated To The Goddess Isis, The High Dam One Of The Most Important Projects In Egypt’s Modern History, And Queen Hatshepsut’s Unfinished Obelisk, You Will Always Be Accompanied by New Cairo Travel NCT Professional Tour Guides During Aswan Day Tours!
Via our daily tour to Philae Temple, High Dam, and the Unfinished Obelisk, which is one of the Egyptian day trips in Aswan that includes most of Aswan’s highlights, we will take you to explore the great Aswan High Dam, a marvel of engineering and one of the most important projects in Egypt’s modern history.
After the one in China, the High Dam is considered the world’s 2nd largest dam, the granite quarries are your next stop to see the Unfinished Obelisk and learn more about how ancient Egyptians used to cut and transport massive stone pillars, obelisks, And stone blocks to be used in their holy temples in Luxor and Aswan and in the construction of the gigantic pyramids of Giza that were almost intact for thousands of years, and the temple of Philae, dedicated to Goddess Isis and the famous myth that took place between her and her husband, God Osiris, and his evil brother Seth.
Three of Aswan’s most famous sites are seen on this private tour of the Philae Temple, Aswan High Dam and the unfinished Obelisk. Travelers should take a close look at the dam separating the Nile from Lake Nasser, marvel at the sheer scale of the unfinished Obelisk and admire the natural beauty of the home of the island of Philae Temple.
Book your private guided day tours and excursions in Aswan now or join groups from New Cairo Travel NCT and save up to 10% on many things to do in Aswan!
New Cairo Travel tour guide will pick up you from any hotel in Aswan to enjoy your Aswan day tours from our Egypt day tours to begin an enjoyable tour to Philae Temple from Aswan. The tour will start as soon as you visit the high dam which is considered an engineering wonder built during the 1960s and resulted in the largest artificial lake in the world behind, the dam was created to secure Egypt from the devastation that the Nile flood used to cause on annual basis, and also from the severe droughts the country used to suffer and at the same time, was useful to manage the flooding water throughout the year. At the time of its construction, the High Dam was responsible for around 50 % of the electricity production in Egypt, providing electricity to most of Egypt’s villages for the first time.
Then you will be transferred to the granite quarries in Aswan which provided the ancient Egyptians with such an enduring substance needed for building their statues, buildings, and most importantly their obelisks, in the quarry, you will see the Unfinished Obelisk laid, this incomplete artifact shows the progress of carving an obelisk and release it from the mountain in ancient Egypt. this obelisk was most apparently cut during the time of Queen Hatshepsut, one of the most dominant female rulers in the ancient Egyptian history. then continue to visit the majestic Philae Temple the Centre of the cult of Goddess Isis the chief deity of the island, the temple would have been completely submerged under the rising water if an international salvage campaign had not taken place to relocate the temple, you will reach the temple after an enjoyable boat ride to the island. Philae Temple rose to prominence during the Ptolemaic Dynasty and was actually one of the last remaining places where the ancient Egyptian religion was practiced after the spreading of Christianity in Egypt.
Temple of Goddess Isis, has the Mammissi (birth house) of Horus, son of Isis and Osiris and the protector of kingship
Later you will be transferred back to your hotel in Aswan or to Aswan Airport.
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