casa marsaDendera and Abydos Working day tour
11th Dec 2024

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Appreciate a Private working day tour Dendera temple s and Abydos temples from Marsa Alam to go to the temple of Hathor,The Goddess of Love,Music and Healing then journey to Abydos to go to the temple of Osiris,Abydos was one of An important religious web pages to historic Egyptians. Very like fashionable Muslims hope to accomplish a pilgrimage to Mecca no less than when within their lifetime, ancient Egyptians would have hopes to go to Abydos, which for them was strongly connected with the entrance to the afterlife.

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Pick up time from a resort in Marsa Alam
Pick up time from a hotel in Marsa Alam by Marsa Alam tours tour guideline, Then Generate to Dendera temple
The gap 220 K.m
Marsa Alam – Safaga 60 K.m
Safaga -Dendera one hundred sixty
By using a break during the desert
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Stop by Dendera temple
Get there at Dendera at 08: thirty, You will end up accompanied by Egyptologist tour guide, He will make clear the record with the temple
Dendera temple
The Temple of Hathor was mostly manufactured throughout the Late Ptolemaic period, particularly through the reign of Ptolemy XII and Cleopatra VII. Afterwards additions have been built during the Roman period. Whilst constructed by a dynasty of rulers who were not indigenous Egyptians them selves, the design of this temple is uncovered to become in accordance to that of other classical Egyptian temples, aside from the entrance of your hypostyle corridor, which, In accordance with an inscription higher than the doorway, was manufactured because of the Emperor Tiberius.
Aside from these, You can also find scenes during the temple advanced portraying the Ptolemaic rulers. Such as, carved onto the external face of among the list of temple walls is a big reduction of Cleopatra VII and her son by Julius Caesar and co-ruler, Ptolemy XV (better known as Caesarion). The 2 Ptolemaic rulers are shown dressed in Egyptian garb, and offering sacrifices.
Hathor was also considered a goddess of healing, which is apparent in the existence of a sanatorium during the temple complicated. Listed here, pilgrims would come to be cured from the goddess. Sacred h2o (which was manufactured holy by owning it poured on to statues inscribed with sacred texts) was utilized for bathing, unguents have been dispensed because of the priests of Hathor, and sleeping quarters have been delivered for those hoping which the goddess would appear of their goals, and so support them.
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Drive to Abydos temple from Dendera temple
Abydos temple
Viewed as among The main archaeological web-sites of Historic Egypt, the sacred metropolis of Abydos was the positioning of many ancient temples, like Umm el-Qa’ab, a royal necropolis in which early pharaohs had been entombed. These tombs started to be witnessed as really significant burials As well as in later on occasions it turned attractive to be buried in the region, leading to The expansion with the city’s significance to be a cult web-site.
Today, Abydos is notable with the memorial temple of Seti I, which is made up of an inscription in the nineteenth dynasty recognized to the trendy globe as being the Abydos King List. It's a chronological checklist showing cartouches of most dynastic pharaohs of Egypt from Menes until finally Ramesses I, Seti’s father. The nice Temple and the majority of the historic city are buried less than the modern properties to your north on the Seti temple. Most of the first structures along with the artifacts in just them are deemed irretrievable and misplaced; quite a few may are already wrecked by the new building.
Abyos temple Situated about 2.five several hours by car or truck north of Luxor , Abydos was certainly one of The most crucial religious web pages to ancient Egyptians. Very like fashionable Muslims hope to accomplish a pilgrimage to Mecca at the least at the time within their life span, ancient Egyptians would have hopes to go to Abydos, which for them was strongly linked to the doorway in to the afterlife.
Even though there have been many temples made here, the biggest and most vital is recognized as the Temple of Seti I. Seti I had been The daddy of the great Ramesses II, who truly done the construction of most of the temple right after his father’s death.
Coming to electricity only 30 years following the upheaval associated with Akhenaten’s heretical rule, often known as the Amarna Period of time, Seti I had been worried about reestablishing religion while in the pantheon of Pre-Amarna gods that Akhenaten experienced sought to wipe out.Consequently, the temple he designed incorporates small chapels devoted to Each individual of the major gods: Ptah, Re-Harakhte, Amun-Re, Osiris, Isis, Horus, and in addition one to Seti himself.Significantly on the temple advanced is now not current, such as the pylon and the main two courtyards so guests to enter through a doorway into the hypostyle hall. A lot of the wall reliefs within are well preserved as well as the reliefs toward the again with the temple, concluded through Seti’s reign, are thought to be among the the finest in almost any temple in the course of Egypt.Given that Abydos is more difficult to succeed in than quite a few internet sites, It's not at all extremely closely visited. Occasionally tour buses originate from the beach resorts or with loads of cruise ship passengers from the Pink Sea, but it surely you time your visit effectively, you would possibly find yourself While using the temple intricate to you.
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Lunch in Abydos temple
Take pleasure in Egyptian Lunch by Abydos temple
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Back again on your lodge
Drive again to Marsa Alam from Abydos temple
Inclusions:
Personal tour
Private tour tutorial
Entrance expenses
Lunch
Exclusions:
Evening meal
Tipping
Please remember to deliver:
Passports
Sun shades
Ranging from one hundred forty five $

The temple of Hathor
The Temple of Abydos
The Mysterious Cryptic
see Cleopatra Cleopatra VII
The King listing
The Flower of Lifestyle
the Egyptian Calendar
* Household And Group Have a very Specific selling price

Totally free cancellation as much as 24 several hours ahead of activity commences

Length:

1 Day

form:

Personal

Operate:

Daily

Pick Up:

05:00

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