See the highlights of Aswan Philae Island& High Dam and the unfinished Obelisk in day tour.
Duration
8 Hours
Location
Aswan
Run
Every Day
Type
Private tour
Price Inclusions
- All the transfers by a private air-conditioned Vehicle.
- Pick up services from your hotel& return.
- All the sightseeing tours (private tours).
- All the sightseeing tours as in the itinerary
- Qualified Egyptologist guide during your excursions
- All the service charges and taxes
Price Exclusions
- Entrance fees (Tickets) to all the sites as indicated in the itinerary
- Meals & Drinks
- Drinks and any personal expenses
- Tipping
Price per person
- Start from 60$
Children Policy
- 0 – 05.99 Free of Charge
- 6 – 11.99 pay 50% of tour price
- 12+ pay full tour price as per adult person
If your tour includes airfare then an extra charge for child rate may apply.
Client’s Review
Exploring the pyramids with Egypt Key Tours
We cannot thank you enough God really blessed us by having you be a part of our lives.
Our guide Jimmy was the best. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, Love and excitement of history with our family. It was just surreal that we were there walking up to the pyramids. Thank you Egypt Key Tours.
Amazing, you made our trip one that will always be special!
Winingerm
Visited April 2017
Amazing Tour with Egypt Key Tours
I had an amazing private tour of the pyramids of Giza and old Cairo lead by Jimmy from Egypt Key Tours. My Group had a very limited time (18hr Cairo layover) and the trip jimmy put together was amazing. Unfortunately our arrival was after closing of the pyramids but jimmy arranged a special camel ride to the backside of the pyramids which was crazy amazing.
After that we had a pre-arranged dinner and afterwards a private tour of the Old Cairo after dark. The market and architecture of Old Cairo is unforgettably and Jimmy made the whole experience even more unforgettable by his meticulous planning and knowledge.
He was very easy to listen to (a walking history book) and made us feel absolutely safe. When I return to Egypt there will be two certainties-that I have more than 18 hrs, and that I book with Egypt Key Tours!
Lou S
Wilmington, North Carolina
Additional information
| Price per Person | Single, 2 persons, 3 persons, 4 persons, 5 persons |
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In the morning, Egypt Key tour guide will meet and transfer you from your hotel to visit the island of Philae. It was the center for worship of the goddess Isis and attracted pilgrims from all over the ancient world. The original island is now completely submerged under the waters of Lake Nasser, but in a spectacular rescue operation, the great temples and monuments of Philae were pulled out of the water and re-erected on a nearby island now renamed Philae.
This beautiful temple complex is one of the most picturesque all over Egypt. Philae was one of the last outposts of Egyptian religion that survived for two centuries after the Roman converted to Christianity. The sacred island attracted many Greek and Roman pilgrims who came to pray for healing from the mysterious Egyptian goddess Isis.
The temple of Philae was finally closed in 6th century AD by the order of Emperor Justinian, some chambers were converted for Christian worship and Coptic community lived on the island until the advent of Islam.
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After that, you will visit Aswan High Dam, which is an embankment dam built across the Nile in Aswan between 1960 and 1971. The dam controls flooding, provides increased water storage for irrigation and generating hydroelectricity. The dam was seen as pivotal to Egypt’s planned industrialization. The High Dam has had a significant effect on the economy and culture of Egypt.
Aswan’s High Dam is one of the most important achievements of the last century in Egypt. It contains 18 times the material used in building the great pyramid of Cheops at Giza.
Aswan’s High Dam is 3830 meters long, 980 meters wide at the base and 111 meters tall.
The construction displaced over 100,000 Nubian, whose civilization had called the banks of the Nile in southern Egypt and northern Sudan home for millennia, and the rising waters threatened a number of important ancient monuments. The UNESCO has carried out a spectacular project to rescue all the monuments during the construction of the dam
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The Last stop for the day is at the unfinished obelisk of Aswan. Aswan was the source of Egypt’s finest granite, the hard stone Ancient Egyptians used to make statues and to embellished temples, Pyramids and obelisks.
The unfinished obelisk is the largest known obelisk weight 1,200 tones and about 62 Meters high (137 feet), it was ordered by Queen Hatshepsut.
The unfinished obelisk has given archeologists valuable insights into how these monuments were built.
The unfinished obelisk is considered the largest obelisk ever cut in Ancient Egypt.
It is deemed as the greatest of all Egypt’s monoliths, however was never finished
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After the Tour you will drop back to your hotel.
