Day Trip to Abu Simbel from Luxor

Early in the morning, get ready for one of the enjoyable excursions that you must pass during your visit to Egypt. Outside your hotel in Luxor, one of our expert guides will be waiting for you to take you in a modern, air-conditioned car and accompany you on your special visit to Abu Simbel.

Once you reach Abu Simbel, one of Egypt's most significant and well-liked temples, you will have the chance to examine it.The Great Temple of Abu Simbel, located in Nubia, near the southern border of Egypt, is one of the most impressive monuments in Egypt, constructed by 19th Dynasty King Ramses II and fully dug in the mountain in 1264 BC. The temple is famous for the four huge seated statues that adorn its facade, one of which collapsed due to an ancient earthquake and whose remains still remain on the ground.

During your tour you will see the two huge statues of the king standing on either side of the main hall leading to the Holy of Holies, where four gods sit: Amun-Ra, Ra-Horakhti, Ptah, and Ramses II as an idol. The temple was built with such precision that two days a year, on February 22 and October 22, sunlight enters the temple, passes through the main hall and illuminates the statues inside, except that of Ptah. To the north is another rock-cut temple known as the Small Temple, devoted to the goddess Hathor and Queen Nefertari, the magnificent royal wife of Ramses II, and in a very uncommon instance, her statues on the façade of the Small Temple are as massive as those of her husband.

The two temples were moved from their original site in 1968 following the construction of the Aswan High Dam, which threatened to submerge them. The temple was approved as a World Heritage Site in 1979 after the relocation was finished with the help of international efforts headed by UNESCO.

We will be happy to take you back to your hotel in luxor.