The Abu Simbel Sun Festival is a bi-annual festival that takes place at the splendid shrine of Ramses II in the south of Egypt. On 2 days of the year the main part of the shrine is lightened by the sun. For a brief span of time as the sun completely lines up with the generally masked interior, light is shed on the seated figurines of Ramses II (pharaoh), Ra (sun god) and Amun (king of the gods). Only the figurine of Ptah, stays in the shadows. This festival has been taking place for more than 3,200 years. Domestic tourists, international travelers and locals gather before sunrise to see the lighting as the sun rises & cuts through the shadows of the shrine’s inner compartment. To get to the heart of the temple tourists must first stroll through the remarkable entrance with its grandiose façade of colossal figurines. You will arrive into the grand hall enclosed by 2 treasury rooms & through to the Hypostyle Hall with adorned pillars & bas-reliefs embellishing the walls. A second pillared lobby guide to the sanctuary where the 4 sculptures are seated & the crowd stands two-people deep from the exterior walls to let the sun get through the interior.

Your trip will begin with a visit to the High Dam, an engineering wonder constructed in 1960 shielding Egypt from yearly flood happens because of the Nile. Then we will proceed to see the Unfinished Obelisk which demonstrated the methods employed by the primeval Egyptians to incise obelisks. According to the history this obelisk belongs to Queen Hatshepsut – a popular during the eighteenth dynasty and the other half of king Tuthmosis II. Queen Hatshepsut was believed to be the possessor of Al Deir El-Bahari temple located in Luxor’s eastern bank. Also, there’s some assumption that it belongs to Queen Nefertiti. Then we will see the grandiose Philae Temple which was constructed on the admiration of goddess Isis – who’s the main divine being of the islet. Then travel back to your hotel in the comfort of an AC car.

Get ready to enjoy a private guided day tour to Luxor from Aswan accompanied by our professional tour guide. We will pick you up from your Aswan hotel and then you will be transferred by a private air conditioned vehicle to Luxor. We will start this trip while visiting the Valley of Kings – the final resting place for Egyptian rulers from the eighteenth to twentieth dynasty. There’re innumerable kings that were buried in this valley. Here you will tombs encompassing the great Pharaoh Ramses II & boy Pharaoh Tutankhamen.

The day tour of Kalabsha Temple and Nubian Museum with us at Egypt Online Tour begins by picking you up from your hotel in Aswan. Then we head towards the Temple of Kalabsha which has been dismantled and re-established on a hill nearby the High Dam site at Western Bank. The Kalabsha Temple was originally constructed by Toutmosis II and Amenophis II at Kalabsha which is 40 miles towards south of Aswan and was reestablished during the Roman invasion. The day tour of Kalabsha Temple and Nubian Museum with us at Egypt Online Tour begins by picking you up from your hotel in Aswan. Then we head towards the Temple of Kalabsha which has been dismantled and re-established on a hill nearby the High Dam site at Western Bank. The Kalabsha Temple was originally constructed by Toutmosis II and Amenophis II at Kalabsha which is 40 miles towards south of Aswan and was reestablished during the Roman invasion.

The great Abu Simbel temple is also called The Sun Temple of RamssessII.The Temple of Queen Nefertari is also Called Temple of Hathor who was the wife of the Sun God so in a symbolic way, the two Temples, that of Ramsses II and that of Nefertari, bring Ramesses II, Nefertari, Hathor and the Sun God together as one.