2-Day Aswan and Abu Simbel Tour from Marsa Alam with 5-Star Stay

• Pick up from your hotel in Marsa Alam.

• Transfer to Aswan (4 hours 30 minutes by modern air-conditioned van) to visit Philae Temple, dedicated to the goddess Isis. This temple was dismantled and reconstructed on Agilika Island after the construction of the Aswan High Dam.

• Continue your Aswan tour with a visit to the Unfinished Obelisk, which belongs to an unknown pharaoh. It offers unusual insight into ancient Egyptian stone-working techniques - marks from workers' tools and ocher-colored guiding lines are still clearly visible on the obelisk.

• Lunch at a local restaurant in Aswan.

• Move on to visit the High Dam, which was constructed between 1960 and 1970 to protect Egypt from annual floods and store water for agriculture.

• Drive to your hotel for check-in.

• Enjoy free time in Aswan, with an optional evening tour to attend the spectacular Sound and Light show at Philae Temple.

Overnight stay in Aswan.

• Leave the hotel in the morning and head to Abu Simbel (3 hours' drive from Aswan).

• Visit the Great Sun Temple of Ramses II and the Temple of Queen Nefertari. When these temples were discovered in 1813, they were almost completely covered in sand. In 1960, with the help of the Egyptian government and UNESCO, the temples were moved from their original site to avoid the rising waters of the Nile. Ramses II built the temple mostly to honor himself, and it houses a mural depicting his famous victory at the Battle of Qadesh. To the north of Ramses' temple is the Nefertari Temple, which was built by Ramses II for his favorite wife and queen, Nefertari.

• After the Abu Simbel tour, head back to Aswan.

• Enjoy a walking tour of Aswan.

• By 6 o'clock in the evening, head back to your hotel in Marsa Alam.