kalabsha and Nubian Museum
kalabsha and Nubian Museum
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See two of Aswan’s top attractions on this double-duty guided day tour. Visit the largest and most completely free-standing temple in Nubia, the Kalabsha temple, nestled on the banks of Lake Nasser. Explore Egypt with our tour guide, and learn more about ancient temples in Egypt. Visit the Nubian Museum
ItINERARY
Visit the Temple of Kalabsha, the largest freestanding temple in the region, and the Nubian Museum, considered one of the most important museums featuring recovered relics from tombs and temples. First, take a motorboat to the ancient Temple of Kalabsha, set on the banks of Lake Nasser. The temple was built by the Roman emperor Octavius Augustus in 30 BC as a tribute to Mandulis (Merul), a Lower Nubian sun god. Explore the largest freestanding temple in Egyptian Nubia and admire a fine carving of Horus emerging from reeds on its inner curtain wall. Follow your guide, who shows you its most remarkable carvings and features, and see why the temple is considered one of the most complete in the region. On the banks of Lake Nasser lies Kalabsha Temple, an often-overlooked jewel of Aswan. our Egyptologist guide is waiting to take you on a private tour of the temple to help you unlock its secrets. It was just one of 18 temples and monuments moved to preserve them from the rising Nile water created by the construction of Aswan’s High Dam.
Then, visit the International Museum of Nubia. The museum was built to provide an exhibition space for materials recovered from tombs, temples, and settlements, as Egyptologists and archaeologists feared that rising waters from the High Dam would submerge the remnants of Egyptian Nubia. The Nubia Museum opened in 1997 and is a winner of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Kalabsha Temple was dismantled into 15,000 pieces and moved block by block to its current location on the banks of Lake Nasser. Egypto Travel invites you to embark on an enchanting expedition to Aswan, Your adventure begins with a visit to the majestic Temple of Kalabsha.
This historical marvel was meticulously relocated and reconstructed on a hill near the High-Dam site on the Western Bank. Join us on this captivating journey through time, where history comes alive, and every moment is a memory waiting to be made. With Egypto Travel, every day is a happy day of exploration and discovery! Let’s create golden memories together in the land of Nubia!
Then, visit the International Museum of Nubia. The museum was built in order to provide an exhibition space for materials recovered from tombs, temples, and settlements, as Egyptologists and archaeologists feared that rising waters from the High Dam would submerge the remnants of Egyptian Nubia. The Nubia Museum opened in 1997, and is a winner of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
INCLUDED
- Pick up service from your hotel in Aswan and return
- Professional English-speaking Egyptologist guide
- Entrance fees to the mentioned historical places
- All transfers by a modern air-conditioned vehicle
- All service charges and taxes
EXCLUDED
- Any extras not mentioned in the itinerary
- Personal Spending
- Tipping.
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Keeping you safe during COVID-19
What you can expect during your visit
- All our vehicles are sterilized before and after each day in your trip.
- Providing our vehicles with hand sanitizers.
- Daily driver temperature measured.
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It is one of the most important archaeological sites, it is considered the second-largest temple after Abu Simbel. With the Nubian architecture model
It was built in the Roman era, “By Emperor Augustus “, To honor “ Mandolis “, the sun deity.
To avoid the damage of rising water of Nasser Lake after the high dam’s construction.
Its location was 30 miles to the south after the construction of the dam, but now it has moved to another place. Located within view of the High Dam, Kalabsha Temple is often the first stop for any cruise on Lake Nasser.
It took two years to complete the process.
It contains pictographic inscriptions of various gods (Mandolis-Isis, Osiris-Ptah-Horus) and the room of the most holy of the Holies of the God Mandolis, where the sun is perpendicular to the room twice a year. As well as inscriptions about ancient and historical Egypt, including the victories of the Nubian king “Silko.”
The sun is perpendicular to the room on February 14 and October 29.
Kalabsha temple is located on an island in the middle of Lake Nasser, next to the Aswan High Dam, and around 16 kilometers from Aswan.
Yes, other structures beside Kalabsha temple were also relocated to the same island like Gerf Hussien which is a temple dedicated to Ramesses II that had to be reconstructed, since an important part of it was submerged beneath the waters also there is a Kiosk of Qertassi A beautiful and elegant Roman kiosk with 6 columns (4 inside and 2 at the entrance) and the last one is Beit el Wali Also dedicated to Ramesses II, this temple contains super interesting and colorful paintings, perfectly restored thanks to a Polish archaeological team.
Egypt is the third-highest populated country in Africa, Egypt is home to the longest river in Africa, Egypt is a transcontinental country because The Sinai peninsula is a land bridge between the Northeast of Africa and the Southwest of Asia. Cairo is the third-largest city in Africa. The largest food court in the world is in Cairo. Aswan High Dam crosses the Nile and is part of the Egypt-Sudan border. It also creates Lake Nassar, which is one of the biggest reservoirs in the world.
Papyrus The pharaonic word for papyrus was used as a more general termPapyrus is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface. It was made from the pith of the papyrus plant. can also refer to a document written on sheets of such material, joined side by side and rolled up into a scroll, an early form of a book.