Day 6: Visit to Philae Temple and also Kom Ombo Temple

Staying a night at the cruise for our little first experience and today we visit Philae temple in the morning before the cruise start sailing at noon.

We begin with visiting the Aswan high dam...

there are a friendship tower near the Aswan dam for a little visit as well.

Then follow by the Philae temple which is a temple in the middle of the island at the Nile river which required a short boat ride to the temple.

This is the dock for the Philae temple..

Philae temple was also lifted and move like Abu Simbel to a higher ground even thou it is not as great as Abu Simbel but it is still a great historical world heritage sites at Aswan.

This is the overview of Philae Temple.

and then follow by the Unfinished Obelisk which is part of the attractions in Aswan.

After completing the tour then we return back to the cruise for our lunch and start our sailing.

The cruise slowly start sailing towards Kom Ombo temple. We reach the temple around 5pm just before the sunset.

We may have visit many temples with similarity but it definitely have different historical significance.







Then the cruise continue to sail to Edfu.

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Day 5: Majestic Abu Simple UNESCO World Heritage Site

Today would be another excited day as we going to visit the majestic Abu Simbel. The guide come and meet us at 7:30am, check out from Philae hotel and continue our Abu Simbel day tour.

We reached Abu Simbel around 10am and visited both temple built by King Ramses and also Queen Neferteri temple.

The existing temple is a lifted and move from the original location that is in risk damage by the higher water level of the river.

The whole lifting process is a huge project by UNESCO and well documented.

We completed the temples by noon and then departed from Abu Simbel and have local Egyptian lunch in between the tour.

Reach back Aswan around evening just before sunset for the Nile cruise check in to MS Radamis 2.

We manage to slot in a Felucca ride for Nile river sunset.









Then we had our first dinner at the Nile river cruise. There are some confusion at the cruise as the administration mix up us with the other boat with full of Malaysian. We managed to resolve and settle the confusion especially when we engage our own tour guide especially for this Nile river cruise.

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Day 4: Journey to Aswan

Today is our journey to another city in Egypt where some of the famous world heritage sites located together with our Nile cruise experience.

We engage the same driver to take us to the airport for our internal flights to Aswan. We reach Aswan around 1pm then check in to Philae Hotel near the city center.

The hotel room is facing the Nile River.

After check in and we stroll along the river towards the Feryal Garden where we found a good restaurants namely Makani restaurants with western chicken roasted meal for lunch.

Then we still have time to visit the feryal garden to take some nice photos of the Nile at sunset.

We brought some local burger for dinner as we had a late lunch. Aswan is a city nearer to the other African countries and there are local Nubian which really look like African.

This is the coptic church at Aswan.






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Day 3: Dahshur, Saqqara and Memphis Egyptian Adventure

After consulted some Tripadviser experience and we decided to stick to Dahshur, Saqqara and Memphis and we can focus the majority of the pyramids heritage and it may be the wise decision as well to have a more relax day tour.

We start off the journey with Saqqara where the journey is just about 30 minutes from Giza hotels. We visited the Steps pyramids of Djoser. The entrance tickets for Saqqara and Dahshur is included the climb to the tomb.

It is a great experience to climb to the tomb where we miss the Giza plateau pyramids.

This is Steps Pyramids.

Then we continue our journey to the next pyramids at Dahshur where the famous Red & Bent Pyramid located.

This is the Red Pyramids.

This Bent pyramids is longer and deeper than the Red pyramids like 4 times.

It took a while to climb down the tomb and then there are a high staircase to climb up to the top to experience the whole pyramids.

It is a great experience to have climb both Red and Bent pyramids even thou it is empty inside but it is consider an Egyptian adventure.

We end our tour at Memphis for a little museum before going...

for a Egyptian local cuisine and then returning back to the Giza hotel.






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Day 2: Ancient wonder of the world Giza Pyramids

We started our day early with breakfast at 8am then we continue our self-exploring to the Giza plateau with some difficulty at the beginning even thou the entrance is just next to the hotel

but there are so many locals queuing up and then locals trying to help tourist get in easily and demanded a high tips which we need to be more alerts and careful.

Once we get in then we stroll slowly towards the sphinx and took many photos with the famous Egyptian sphinx which show the face of Egypt pharaoh and to us it is like the majestic lion guarding the pyramids.

After the sphinx (number 5) then we walk slowly up to the pyramids of Khafre (number 1). From Khafre then we walk across the little road and about 200meters to the Great Pyramids of Cheops, Khufu (number 6).

We didn’t brought the tickets to go into the tombs as we missed this at the tickets counter and there are no selling counter around the pyramids.

BTW we chat with some of the tourist on the tickets and they advise that we may skip it as there are nothing inside the pyramids as the whole tomb is already excavated and now at the Egyptian museum.

Anyway to avoid further disappointment we engage a horse cart to go around the pyramids and..

also took an amazing awesome pyramids panoramic view from a best location far at the desert which can reach by camel or horse cart.

We spend almosta full day at the Giza plateau by walking down slowly towards the entrance and also took some sunset photos of sphinx before ending our tour self-exploration at a local KFC.



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An Adventure to Egypt : Day 1 arrival to Cairo

Our trip started with Air Arabia early in the morning on Monday from KLIA and reached Sharjat around 7am and then transit at 1pm afternoon and reached Cairo airport around 3pm.


Once we reached Cairo and we arranged a free pick up from Pyramids Valley Boutique Hotels located at Giza just next to the Giza Pyramids. We reached the hotel almost 5:30pm and we missed the sunset after the check in process. But it is a really great experience staying next to the pyramids even thou the area isn’t pleasant as there are many locals not sincere and trying to scam tourist.

The room is average as it is a reasonable hotel next to the pyramids and the people were not so friendly but that didn’t spoilt our trip.





We have our first meal dinner at the hotel café which we can see the view of the pyramids at night which is so awesome. This is our first great trip in an African countries.

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