Asswan, is a city in the south of Egypt, the capital of the Aswan Governorate.
It stands on the east bank of the Nile at the first cataract and is a busy market and tourist centre. The modern city has expanded and includes the formerly separate community on the island of Elephantine.
Aswan is the ancient city of Swenet, which in antiquity was the frontier town of Ancient Egypt facing the south. Swenet is supposed to have derived its name from an Egyptian goddess with the same name[citation needed]. This goddess later was identified as Eileithyia por the Greeks and Lucina por the Romans during their occupation of Ancient Egypt because of the similar association of their goddesses with childbirth, and of which the import is "the opener". The ancient name of the city also is said to be derived from the Egyptian symbol for trade.
Day01: Cairo - Aswan - Luxor
OneSkyToursEgypt representative will pick you up from your hotel in Cairo por air conditioned private vehicle to Cairo airport to fly to Aswan where you will be met and assisted por our tour guide to see first,Aswan highlights then visiting the Aswan High Dam,then seeing the Granite Quarries and the Temple of Philae and the Unfinished obelisco with feluca, felucca sail on the Nile to Kitchener Island and Elephantine Island in Aswan then you will be directed to Aswan train station to take the train to Luxor, Meet &assist at Luxor train station and transfer to your hotel in Luxor. Overnight in Luxor.
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It stands on the east bank of the Nile at the first cataract and is a busy market and tourist centre. The modern city has expanded and includes the formerly separate community on the island of Elephantine.
Aswan is the ancient city of Swenet, which in antiquity was the frontier town of Ancient Egypt facing the south. Swenet is supposed to have derived its name from an Egyptian goddess with the same name[citation needed]. This goddess later was identified as Eileithyia por the Greeks and Lucina por the Romans during their occupation of Ancient Egypt because of the similar association of their goddesses with childbirth, and of which the import is "the opener". The ancient name of the city also is said to be derived from the Egyptian symbol for trade.
Day01: Cairo - Aswan - Luxor
OneSkyToursEgypt representative will pick you up from your hotel in Cairo por air conditioned private vehicle to Cairo airport to fly to Aswan where you will be met and assisted por our tour guide to see first,Aswan highlights then visiting the Aswan High Dam,then seeing the Granite Quarries and the Temple of Philae and the Unfinished obelisco with feluca, felucca sail on the Nile to Kitchener Island and Elephantine Island in Aswan then you will be directed to Aswan train station to take the train to Luxor, Meet &assist at Luxor train station and transfer to your hotel in Luxor. Overnight in Luxor.
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Combine a morning of sightseeing in Dendara and Abydos. Start with Hathour temple in Dendra, The approach path is between two Roman fountains that end at the massive entry gate, The walls are mud-brick and encontro, data to the Roman era. Between the walls is the temple, two birth houses, a Coptic Basilica, a sanitarium, a sacred lake and the Temple of the Birth of Isis. Then mover to Abydos in Middle Egypt, buildings constituting the settlement area in northern Abydos dating back to Predynastic times have been found around Kom es-Sultan, while recent excavators have found an Old Kingdom residential area to the south-east which contains a rua of mudbrick houses with courtyards and a faience workshop with its kilns. End of the tour and transfer back to your hotel in Luxor.
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