In general, the Egyptian city of Aswan can certainly be considered a source point for excursions that are sent to many very interesting places from here. Moreover, some of them can only be reached from here, but to others, from the other not so far located Luxor.
If you, for example, be able to get up sooner, it will be quite able to visit several historical monuments at once in one day, but at the same time you will not be able to linger near each of them for a long time.
There will be a lot to depend more than whether you hire a private taxi, or you use public transport, which takes much more time.
For example, some tourists seek how to squeeze the inspection of the main attractions immediately in two long day trips - to the island of fillets and in Abu-Simbel, and then north in idufu, in Com-Maombo and in ISNU. As a rule, the most ordinary excursions on such an island as a fillet with his beautiful and wonderful temple of Isis, located on the lake in the interval between the two Aswan dams, takes at least half of the day.
Tourists usually seek to gather small groups and hire a private taxi right before the pier, and from there, they go to the island from there, and then visit the dams, and then making a short stop near the unfinished obelis and then at the Fatimid Cemetery, located in urban environments, with feeling Performed debt return to Aswan.
In this case, it is enough will be 3-4 hours, if you are calm for 30-40 pounds hire 4 local taxi. If you add a little more money to the taxi owner, you can extend your tour and include visiting the Calabsh Temple, otherwise you will have to provide a completely separate trip.
As for such a place as Abu-Simbel, then the main part of tourists gets there on minibuses, or joins the tourist column, which is sent from Aswan 2 times a day - in 4 and at 11 am. The cost of such an excursion is usually 55 pounds.
In principle, you can get to Abu Simbel and on the usual bus. It will not greatly help you save money, but you can travel to those hours that you are more comfortable. Another more expensive way to get to Abu-Simbel is a flight by plane, or you can make a 4-day cruise on the lake Nasser on the ship.
At a distance of approximately 500 meters from the famous Nubian Museum, you can see a green metal fence, which is condensed by hundreds of tombs of a wide variety of bricks from the brick of Syrov, from simple fenced sites and up to complex enough, crowned with dips of cubic structures.
This is the so-called Fatidim cemetery - a peculiar illustrated reference book on the funeral Muslim architecture. The main part of the tomb has marble plates with inscriptions, and on some they have already erased with time, or in general collapsed.
Travelers who relax in Aswan have already managed to evaluate the dignity of swimming on Feluca, must certainly visit the island island, which is located 4 kilometers upside the river from Aswan. If there is a passing wind, in principle, it is possible to achieve this place for about 1 hour, but in the windless weather, it is natural for this much more time.
Approximately 3 hours travel, it will be necessary to pay 50 pounds. Of course, you need to take a stock of water, suitable shoes and a headdress, as the water itself in the cold river, but the rocks and sand will burn hot.
When you land on the eastern tip of the island, then you will immediately surround the oral of the local children who wish for at least a little Bakshish to spend you to Nubian village. Usually visitors here attract local hospitality and of course an exhibition of craft products.
In the evenings, music is played here and local dishes are served. And children can take you to the so-called "ruins", that is, to two piles of chumped in a bunch of chill, which rise above the island. It is a total of approximately 250 inscriptions that cover the period of time starting from the Middle Kingdom and up to the Ptolemeevsky era.
From there, from the top, a stunning beautiful view of the first thresholds opens. You can see how the rocks seem to be compressed from two sides rather a rapid river stream, which is separated by granite protrusions for independent channels.
Literally in front of the Asuan dam, the water is boil here and foams, and makes the thresholds most important obstacle in order to make swimming up the river. Still until the beginning of the last century, travelers had to endure the burden on the shore, and then deliver it on the ground.
Nevertheless, light vessels with a huge risk for life still made their way through these rapids. In ancient times, people believed that the foaming water actually breaks out of the underground caves, that is, from there, where the Nile God lives. And even on the island of Shele, left an offer to go to the temper.