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Aswan day tour
High Dam, Unfinished Obelisk and Philae
A private day from your Aswan hotel: High Dam, Unfinished Obelisk and boat to Philae Temple.
- Length
- In Aswan
- Tour type
- Private, just your group
- Pickup
- Your hotel in Aswan
- Guide
- English-speaking Egyptologist
The tour journey
Your day, step by step
Times are estimates; traffic and your hotel's location change them. Drive times are from map routing without traffic.
- 8:00approx.Pickup
Your Egyptologist guide picks you up from your hotel or chosen location.
- 8:30approx.1VisitAswan High Dam and Unfinished Obelisk: history, hours and tickets →
Built in the 1960s to control the Nile floods and generate electricity.
- 9:15approx.2Visit
An obelisk left in the ancient granite quarries, showing how stone was worked.
- 9:45approx.By boat
Boat ride to the temple island.
- 10:15approx.3VisitPhilae Temple: history, hours and tickets →
Ptolemaic temple of the goddess Isis, moved to safety in a UNESCO rescue.
- 12:00approx.Drop-off
Drop-off at your hotel or Aswan Airport.
Included
- All transfers by a private air-conditioned vehicle
- Pick up services from your hotel & return
- Private English Egyptologist guide
- Entrance fees to all the mentioned sites
- A bottle of water during your trip
- All taxes & service charge
- Motorboat to Philae Island and back
Not included
- Any extras not mentioned in the itinerary
- Tipping
Book this day
Request this tour
Send your date and group size for High Dam, Unfinished Obelisk and Philae. We reply with the price for your day and confirm the pickup from your hotel.
From $84 per personFor 2 or more people
- Private, just your group
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Change or skip a stop: just ask
- Free cancellation up to 24 hours before
Nothing to pay with the request. To book, a 25% deposit by card or PayPal; the rest in cash on the day. Payment and cancellation
Before you go
Guides for this day
Philae Temple from Aswan: the boat, the hours and the ticketsThe boat to the island, our Philae tours by day and by night, two sets of official hours, and the tickets.
First time in Egypt: which day tours to start withGiza and a museum in Cairo, both banks in Luxor, Philae in Aswan: where a first trip starts.
Abu Simbel or Philae: which day from Aswan?A long road day to Abu Simbel or a short boat ride to Philae: how the two Aswan days compare.
Philae by day or at the sound and light show?Daytime visit or evening show at Philae: what each covers and how they combine.
