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Half day Felucca ride, visiting the Botanical Gardens of Kitchener. * Sailing on the Nile with a felucca, the oldest method of navigation on the Nile. * A visit to the Kitchener Island, a natural exhibition of exotic plants and trees imported from all over the world. * View the Elephantine island, it was one of the most powerful forts on Egypt's southern borders, lies opposite to the Old Cataract hotel.

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Half day tour of Dams, and the unfinished Obelisk. * A visit to the High Dam, it was an engineering miracle when it was built in the 1960's. today it provides irrigation and electricity for the whole of Egypt. Passing over the Old Aswan Dam on the way. * A visit to the unfinished obelisk in the Aswan granite quarries, it is a huge obelisk incompletely carved, about 41 meters high and more than 1150 tons weight, it owes its importance to the fact that it shows the techniques the ancient Egyptians used to carving obelisks.

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Full day tour of the High Dam, The unfinished obelisk and Philae temple. * A visit to the High Dam, it was an engineering miracle when it was built in the 1960's. today it provides irrigation and electricity for the whole of Egypt. Passing over the Old Aswan Dam on the way. * A visit to the unfinished obelisk in the Aswan granite quarries, it is a huge obelisk incompletely carved, about 41 meters high and more than 1150 tons weight, it owes its importance to the fact that it shows the techniques the ancient Egyptians used to carving obelisks. * Then a visit to Philae temple, the romantic and majestic aura surrounding the temple complex of Isis on the island of Phelie has been luring pilgrims for thousand of years; during the 19th century. The ruins of the Egypt's most legendary tourist attractions. Even when it seemed that they were distant to be lost orever beneath the rising water of the Nile. * Travelers still came taking to rowboats to glide amongst the party submerged columns and beer down through the translucent green to the wonder sanctuaries of mighty Gods below.

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Sound and Light performance at Philae temple. * It is present and in successive stages, starting by the arrival of the spectators in Philae Island after a Nile cruise in which they enjoyed the natural beauty of the area. The spectacle also describes how these temples were rescued and restored and relates the story of Isis.

A 20	The Nubian Museum. * It houses three Thousand artifacts representing various archaeological periods throughout the history of Egypt, ( prehistoric, Pharaonic, Greek, Roman, Coptic and the Islam. )

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An excursion to Abu Simbel by bus / car. * Early morning drive to Abu Simbel, situated 280 Km south of Aswan. *The Great temple of Ramses II was dedicated to the Gods Ra-Harakhty, Amun, Ptah and of course to the deified Pharaoh himself. While the smaller rock-cut Temple of Hat-hour, was dedicated to the cow-headed goddess of love and built in honor of Ramses' favorite wife, Queen Nefertari. * Drive back to Aswan.

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A visit to Abu Simbel by air from Aswan. * Transfer to Aswan airport to board your short flight for Abu Simbel. ( about half an hour flight ). * Arrive Abu Simbel airport, then you'll be transferred to the temples area by the sponsored company. * All the visitors of the site will be divided into groups, each according to the spoken language. * Visit the two temples of Ramses II and the small temple of his favorite wife, Queen Nefertari. * Transfer back to Abu Simbel airport to board your flight back to Aswan. * Arrival at Aswan airport and transfer to your hotel. NB. The normal visited time allowed in the site is about 1 1/2 hours.