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Prepare yourself to explore all what Egypt has
to offer with Plan Egypt Tours as we offer one of
the best programs to explore all the landmarks in Egypt, starting from Cairo at
the north, arriving to Abu Simbel at the south. Get the chance to go back in
time to the days of the Ancient Egypt with our Nile Cruise Holidays and get the best tours in Cairo, then enjoy unforgettable sailing
via the great Nile River to explore the magnificent monuments between Luxor and
Aswan. Eventually, you will live a charming adventure while visiting Abu Simbel Temple.
Discover Aswan and all of its wonderful
attractions, as well as the surrounding natural beauty, and feast your eyes on
the splendour of the Philae Temple, which houses numerous ancient Egyptian
sanctuaries and shrines, including For Millennia, the Bed of the Pharaoh,
Trajan's Kiosk, and more. Additionally, the High Dam and the Unfinished
Obelisk, which was constructed by Queen Hatsheput and revealed its magnificent
design as it was intended to be the largest Obelisk in the world, will be on
your itinerary.
Explore the most well-known temple in the
world, Abu Simbel Temple, with the Best Nile
cruise Egypt! Visit the impressive landmark, which consists of the Temple of
Ramses II and the Temple of Queen Nefertari, both of which were carved out of
rock during the time of King Ramses II (1290–1223 BC). They both capture the
splendour and opulence of the Ancient Kingdom of Egypt. Amon Ra, Harmakis, and
Ptah, three gods of ancient Egypt, were honoured at the Abu Simbel Temple. Four
statues that belonged to the Pharaoh make up the facade.
The wonders of Egypt while cruising and the
incomparable experiences
The ruins of Rhakotis, the illustrious ancient
town from whence Alexandria sprang, are loomed over by a 30-meter-tall column.
A prominent landmark of the city for centuries, Pompey's Pillar is a single,
tapered shaft that measures 2.7 metres at its base and is topped by a beautiful
Corinthian capital. It was carved from red Aswan granite. The column emerges
from the scant Temple of Serapeum remains, a majestic building that formerly
existed here in antiquity.
Travelers who were reminded of the
assassination of the Roman general Pompey by Cleopatra's brother gave the
column its name, however an inscription on the base of the structure—which was
probably formerly covered in debris—states that it was built in AD 291 to support
a statue of the emperor Diocletian.
This Ptolemaic temple, which was constructed in
Egypt between 237 and 57 BC, is one of the oldest structures still standing.
The temple is devoted to Horus, the vengeful son of Isis and Osiris, and is
preserved by desert sand that filled the area when the pagan ritual was
outlawed. It is also one of the most evocative old structures because its roof
is still in tact.
Edfu was a settlement and cemetery site from
around 3000 BC onward. It was the 'home' and cult centre of the falcon god
Horus of Behdet (the ancient name for Edfu), although the Temple of Horus as it
exists today is Ptolemaic. Started by Ptolemy III (246–221 BC) on 23 August 237
BC, on the site of an earlier and smaller New Kingdom structure, the sandstone temple
was completed some 180 years later by Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos, Cleopatra
VII’s father. In conception and design it follows the general plan, scale,
ornamentation and traditions of Pharaonic architecture, right down to the
Egyptian attire worn by Greek pharaohs depicted in the temple’s reliefs.
Although it is much newer than cult temples at Luxor or Abydos, its excellent
state of preservation helps to fill in many historical gaps; it is, in effect,
a 2000-year-old example of an architectural style that was already archaic
during Ptolemaic times.
This majestic main temple of the Abu Simbel
complex was hewn out of the mountain on the west bank of the Nile between 1274
and 1244 BC. It was equally dedicated to the deified Ramses II himself as it
was to Ra-Horakhty, Amun, and Ptah. Undoubtedly constructed as a warning of the
pharaoh's power, the four enormous sculptures of the pharaoh that stand in
front of the temple are like enormous sentinels guarding the approaching
commerce from the south.
Over the centuries both the Nile and the desert
sands shifted, and this temple was lost to the world until 1813, when it was
rediscovered by chance by the Swiss explorer Jean-Louis Burckhardt. Only one of
the heads was completely showing above the sand, the next head was broken off
and, of the remaining two, only the crowns could be seen. Enough sand was
cleared away in 1817 by Giovanni Belzoni for the temple to be entered.
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