02 days Aswan and Abu Simbel Tour from Luxor

Enjoy our Aswan and Abu Simbel two-day trip; one of the most exciting tours in Aswan with 5 STARS EGYPT TOURS. Your certified Egyptologist guide will meet you at the lobby of your hotel to start your awesome tour to Abu Simbel and Aswan from Luxor, one of the best Egypt day tours in Luxor. 

You will be accompanied to Aswan for an outstanding tour to visit the unfinished obelisk which still lies in the granite quarries in Aswan, and the High Dam, an embankment dam built across the Nile in Aswan to cease floods and create electrical power for all edges of Egypt that were completed in 1971 and the huge reservoir beyond, named after the former Egyptian President Nasser, was filled in 1979.

Resume visiting the majestic Philae Temple dedicated to Goddess Isis, the chief goddess of the island, located now on the Island of Agilika to the south of the old Aswan Dam.

Finally, we will transfer you to the hotel in Aswan to check-in with free time at leisure then spend the night in Aswan hotel.

Included Meals: Lunch

On the second day, you will continue your Abu Simbel tour, Your breakfast box will be prepared by the hotel in Aswan then you will start one of the most striking Egypt day tours to Abu Simbel, you will be accompanied by your English tour guide and driver to visit the two Temples of Abu Simbel for King Ramses II, one of the most remarkable monuments in the history of Egypt. They reveal the majesty and grandeur of the new kingdom era, the temples would have been completely drowned by the rising water behind the dam if an international salvage campaign had not taken place by the Egyptian government and UNESCO.

Nubia was very important to the Egyptians because it was a source of gold and many other precious trade goods, that's why the king built several grand temples there in order to impress upon the Nubians Egypt's might and Egyptianize the people of Nubia. As well as the Temple of Ramses II was dedicated to the four universal gods Ptah, Re-Her-Akhtey, Amun-Re, and Ramses II himself deity.

The great Abu Simbel temple is also called the Sun Temple of Ramses II. The Temple of Queen Nefertari, the beloved wife of King Ramses II is also called the Temple of Hathor who was the wife of the Sun God so in a symbolic way, the two temples, that of Ramses II and that of Nefertari, bring Ramses II, Nefertari, Hathor, and the Sun God Amun together as one.

After that you will be transferred back to Aswan then you travel back to your hotel in Luxor after you have enjoyed one of the best Luxor day tours and things to do in Luxor.

Included Meals: Breakfast, Lunch