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day tour to Kalabsha Temple on Lake Nasser from Aswan

from/per person $50
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  • day tour to Kalabsha Temple on Lake Nasser from Aswan
  • Historic
  • 3 hours
  • Accessibiliy
  • Private
  • aswan
  • Tour guide

Description

Overview

Discover one of the most perfect temples in Nubian and roman civilizations
Explore the beautiful but often-overlooked Kalabsha Temple on the shores of Lake Nasser
Visit this stunning Nubian temple, one of the lesser-known jewels on the banks of Lake Nasser

What's include

    • Door to door transfers from and to your hotel or cruise in Aswan
    • qualified licensed driver
    • All transfers by air-conditioned van
    • Egyptologist tour guide
    • Enjoy sailing by a motor boat around the island.
    • Bottled water
    • All service charges & taxes

Highlights

Admire the Facade and stroll around the court, hypostyle hall,columns and sanctuary

Inspect the wall reliefs of Egyptian and Roman motifs, and examples of Christian imagery

Learn about the temple’s ancient history and how it was moved here to save it from flooding


Itinerary

What To Expect

Explore one of the most perfect temples in Nubian civilization Kalabsha temple,
 
Our egyptologist tour guide will pick you up from your hotel or cruise on time,
 
Drive through the daily life to Kalabsha temple,
 
Arrive and hear from your Egyptologist guide explains how Kalabsha was one of 18 monuments relocated in the 1960s to its current position to protect it from flooding after the construction of the Aswan High Dam,
 
Hear how the building,regarded as one of the best examples of a free-standing Nubian temple,was dismantled and then rebuilt on the banks of the newly formed lake,
 
On arrival, tour the court, halls and sanctuary as your guide recounts the temple’s history. 
 
Learn how it was largely completed, but never finished, 
under the rule of Roman Emperor Octavius Augustus in around 30 BC,and dedicated to the Nubian deity, Mandulis,
View the impressive pylon and undercoated facade, and then inspect the striking columns, hypostyle hall,sanctuary and reliefs, one of the latter depicting Augustus making an offering to Mandulis,
See the interesting reliefs of St George and Coptic crosses that testify to a period when the temple was used as a Christian church,and take in other carvings, including an inscription in Meroitic — an ancient language that’s still a mystery to today’s Egyptologists,Having explored the temple, admire the beautiful views over Lake Nasser from the water’s edge,
After the amazing tour drive back in comfort to your hotel or cruise in Aswan

 


Prices:

Single

$ 80

2 Persons

$ 0

3 Persons

$ 0

4 Persons

$ 0

5 Persons

$ 0

6 Person & more

$ 50

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