1 Day
Daily Tour
15 people
You will enjoy Aswan visiting the High Dam, an engineering miracle built in 1960 to protect Egypt from annual floods from the Nile.
Then visit the Unfinished Obelisk which shows the techniques used by the ancient Egyptians to cut obelisks.
Most probably this obelisk belongs to Queen Hatshepsut, one of the rulers of the 18th Dynasty and the royal wife of king Tuthmosis II.
The Aswan High Dam
Unfinished obelisk
After enjoying your breakfast, our Rep will accompany you from your hotel in Aswan. We will start your tour with a visit to The Aswan High Dam Egypt
Aswan High Dam
Egypt is famous for one of the greatest engineering works it is the Aswan Dam, it is a very important architectural and historical achievement for the history of the country, it is the more modern and largest of the two dams that were built on the Nile, at the height of the first there are small sequences of waterfalls. The Dam takes its name from the nearby city of Aswan, which is about 17 km away.
The Aswan High Dam is one of Egypt’s most famous constructions, after the more ancient pyramids of Giza. Its construction made it possible to regulate the flooding of the Nile River, strengthening the previously built barriers.
The construction of the big dam started in 1952, after the Nasser revolution.
The dam has 12 power generators each of 175 megawatts and produces more than 2 gigawatts of power. It also manages to generate more than half of the electricity needed by Egypt and in the 1970s it allowed almost all Egyptians to have an electricity connection for the first time.
Unfinished obelisk
Aswan was the place where many of the monuments that have come down to us today from ancient Egypt were created.
It is considered A piece of stone 41 meters long and four meters wide that was probably abandoned due to a crack in the rock and now lies abandoned in the same quarry where it was left thousands of years ago.
You can easily walk to the area where the obelisk is located, Northern Quarry, from the city center of Aswan. It is just east of the Fatimid cemetery and the Nubian Museum. where you can take lots of photos.
After enjoying your tour, back to your hotel in Aswan
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