At 5:00 AM, one of our staff will pick you up at your hotel in Marsa Alam and transfer you to Aswan in a modern air-conditioned van. The city is about a 4.5-hour drive from Marsa Alam.

We will first approach the Temple of Philae, dedicated to the goddess Isis, which was completely demolished and rebuilt on the island of Agilika after the completion of the Aswan Dam.

We then drove to the unfinished obelisk, which belonged to an unknown pharaoh and provided a very special insight Build art like this. The working techniques of the ancient Egyptians can be read on, as traces of old tools and ochre lines showing how workers worked can still be seen above.

Lunch awaits you at a local restaurant. We then drove to the dam, which was built in 1960 and finally completed in 1970. Its main mission is to protect Egypt from the annual floods. It is also a reservoir for surrounding agriculture.

We’ll be there by 6:00 pm We are on our way back to your hotel in Marsa Alam.