After you have breakfast at the hotel, our representative will take you to Cairo Airport to fly to Aswan and start a great trip in one of the greatest and most beautiful cities in all of Egypt.
After you visit Aswan and check in at the Nile Cruise, you start your journey in Aswan to visit several places, like the High Dam, which has transformed the scenario of life in Egypt. This helped farmers to produce more harvests consecutively by farming more than twice a year, as people did when the farming practices relied on the flood season. Electricity also led to the industrialization of the country.
Environmentally and engineering-wise, dam-generated Lake Nasser, one of the biggest man-made lakes worldwide, serves as an immense artificial reservoir of water. But the project did not go without its bad sides. It decreased the quantity of silt that flowed to agricultural territories, influencing the fertility of the soil, and evicted tens of thousands of people from the Nuba area south of the dam.
The temple was characterized by the beauty of architectural design and by the richness of carvings that serve valuable religious and historical messages.
The Philae Temple was an Egyptian centre of religion, and even when Christianity was established, it still maintained its territory because, in later periods, a section of it was used in churches.
The threat of drowning was encountered in the temple since, after building the High Dam, the island was exposed to the risk of being permanently submerged in the Lake Nasser waters. During a Nubian monuments saving campaign, UNESCO, together with the Egyptian government of the 1960s, had to relocate the temple to save it, stone by stone, to an island nearby named Agilika.
Then you will go back to your Nile cruise to eat your lunch and rest before the Nile cruise arrives at Kom Ombo.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner