Culture Trip to Egypt
Live marvelous adventure by booking Cairo, Aswan, Abu Simbel and Luxor Tours with Plan Egypt Tours, Discover the Pharaonic history in unique Cairo, Aswan and Luxor Tours, you'll also enjoy your Tour to Abu Simbel which contains two temples one the temple of queen Nefertari and the other temple of Ramses II, Take a tour to Giza Pyramids, the gorgeous Temple of Abu Simbel, proceeding to Aswan where you will be fascinated by the marvelous views of Unfinished Obelisk, the Temple of Philae, as well as Valley of The Kings, Karnak and Luxor Temples, and more.
Scout the amazing historical Temple of Abu simbel which contains two temples one the temple of queen Nefertari and the other temple of Ramses II.Abu simbel Temple situated near Egypt’s southern borders with Sudan, 280 km south of Aswan, the Temples of Abu Simbel are amongst the most interesting of all Pharaonic temples, There are two temples cut into the rock dating back to king Ramses II, one is for Ramses and the other for Nefertari.
The first Temple Ramses II Temple was built by King Ramses II and is dedicated to the God Re-Hor-Akhty, Amon Ptah, and King Ramses II as a deified King, Its facade is 35m. long and 30m high, The facade has four seated colossi of the King, each one is 20m tall and represents the King seated on his throne wearing the double crown, accompanied by 3 small figures of his wives, daughters and sons flanking his legs, Near to the summit of the facade there are number of baboons and above the entrance stands the figure of Re-Hor-Akhty.
The Temple of Queen Nefertari is located 120m. from the Temple of Ramses II and was also built by Ramses II, dedicated to the Goddess Hathor and to his wife Queen Nefertari, Queen Nefertari was the principal and the most beloved wife of King Ramses II, It is also a rock-cut Temple with a facade of about 28m. long and 12m. high, which contains 6 standing colossi, each one being about 11m. in height, Four of them represent Ramses II and the other two represent Queen Nefertari, each accompanied by two smaller figures of their children.
Feast your eyes with the High Dam of Aswan.
The High Dam of Aswan, The Aswan dam was constructed to regulate the flow of the river, which serves the whole of Egypt Flooding of the Nile occurs annually, with almost half of the water being drained into the sea wastefully. The dam controls floods by regulating the flow of river and supplies water for irrigation throughout the year. This dam is 30.M wide and 50.M high
Aswan Dam located near Aswan, the world famous High Dam was an engineering miracle when it was built in the 1960. It contains 18 times the material used in the Great Pyramid of Cheops. The Dam is 11,811 feet long, 3215 feet thick at the base and 364 feet tall, Today it provides irrigation and electricity for the whole of Egypt and together with the old Aswan Dam built by the British between 1898 and 1902, 6km down river, gorgeous views for visitors, From the top of the two Mile long High Dam you can look across Lake Nassar, the huge reservoir created when it was built to Kalabsha temple in the south and the huge power station to the north.
The Aswan High Dam was wonderful project, In fact it was one of the most important achievements of the last century in Egypt, for many years symbolizing the New Era after 1952.
The Aswan High Dam yields enormous benefits to the economy of Egypt, The first time in history, the annual Nile flood can be controlled by man, The dam detain the floodwaters, releasing them when needed to maximize their utility on irrigated land, to water hundreds of thousands of new acres, to develop navigation in Aswan, and to generate enormous amounts of electric power, The dam powers twelve generators each rated at 175 megawatts, producing a hydroelectric output of 2.1 gigawatts. Power generation began in 1967
With our Culture Trip to Egypt ,Visit The Great Pyramids of Egypt or The Seven Wonders of the ancient world: Cheops, Chephren, and Mykerinus. Besides the breathtaking view of the Sphinx, which is a body and a head of a king or god that symbolize strength and wisdom. Additionally, you will be entertained to attend our one-hour Sound and Light Show which is a great show that will take you back to the time of Ancient Egypt where the kings narrate their aesthetic pharaonic stories along with the Pyramids and the Sphinx being illuminated in multi-colored lasers and visual projections. Don`t miss our Camel Riding or Horse Riding at Giza Pyramids, we promise you an amazing and unique experience like no other! You will feast your eyes with the gorgeous Egyptian Museum and its artifacts and learn about the mummification in Ancient Egypt. Moreover, the museum contains many tombs filled with amazing statues and paintings of Egyptian Gods that would help the mummy in the afterlife, protect them against tomb robbers, and pay homage to their religious symbols. They also contain messages and magic spells to ward off evil and furniture to use in the afterlife as they thought.The Egyptian museum located in Tahrir Square, houses an unbelievable exhibit over 120,000 artefacts, which depicting ancient Egypt's glorious reign. Mummies, sarcophagus, pottery, jewellery and of course King Tutankhamun's treasures, this vast heritage is revealed in all its unparalleled glory hundreds of magnificent full-color photographs with special lighting techniques.
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Egyptian museum founded in the 19th century by the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, to halt the plundering of archaeological sites and to arrange the exhibition of the collected artifacts, The Azbakian garden in Cairo was first used as a storage place for these artifacts, a museum was prepared at Boulaq, then transferred to an annex of the Giza palace of Ismail pasha, The present museum was built in 1900, in the neoclassical style by the French architect Marcel Dourgnon
Cairo museum comprises many sections arranged in chronological, also consists of two floors, the ground floor that hosts the heavier displays like coffins, huge statues, and stone carvings, and the sarcophagus of Queen Hetepheres, The upper floor houses small statues, jewels, the legendary treasures of Tutankhamun and a hall for the royal mummies, housing eleven kings and queens, and halls of the mummified animals.
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