Our eight-day cruise hit many highlights: the extensive temples at Karnak and Luxor; the colossal statues of Ramses II ...

We found an affordable way to visit Egypt's bucket-list wonders and came home with memories that will last forever.

We will then visit the Karnak Temple, an enormous complex whose construction began about 2000 B.C.E. We will have fancy hotel accommodations, of course, beginning in Luxor.

In Aswan, discover the beautiful Temple of Philae, browse the vibrant local markets, and, if you want to feel even closer to the Nile, take a felucca — a traditional sailing boat — for a ...

Standing in awe beneath the open sky inside the Philae Temple complex by the Nile River in Egypt’s city of Aswan, Spanish traveller Brais Recarey took in the symmetry of the towering columns and ...

The Philae Temple began construction during the reign of Pharaoh Nectanebo I of the 30th Dynasty, around 380–362 BCE, and was completed by several Ptolemaic kings.

The same year in June, National Geographic placed it among the world’s top five sound and light shows, alongside Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal and Philae Temple in Aswan.

Bankes’ trip to the Temple of Abydos and Abu Simbel in 1819 would fill in the gaps. Bankes had visited the temples in 1815, but found them covered in sand and vowed to return with a team some ...

(Just kidding.) 13. In Aswan, your cruise package may include the beautiful Philae Temple of Isis. Don’t miss it. Also a look at an Unfinished Obelisk, which is surprisingly interesting. 14.

Dendera temple or Temple of Hathor. Egypt. Dendera , also spelled Denderah, is a small town and former bishopric in Egypt situated on the west bank of the Nile, about 5 kilometres south of Qena, on ...

THE mighty sand-coloured ­Philae Temple rises up from Agilkia Island, as if floating on the River Nile. The huge structure is certainly a sight to behold. I had caught a boat to the tiny island ...

The most famous of the monuments affected by the Aswan High Dam Project was the temple complex on the island of Philae. Sacred to the goddess Isis, the sanctuary dates mostly to the Graeco-Roman ...