Discovering the ancient marvels of the modern Egypt. Luxor and others

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Arrived in Egypt to Luxor by plane departed from Rome with Tour organized by the Travel Turquoise.
For the temporary closure of the dam with a microbus took us on the cruise ship moored at Edfu, where we slept. The following day the bus we have reported back to Luxor to visit the Valley of the Kings, one of the Queens, the tomb of faraonessa Hapteshupt, the temples of Karnak and Luxor. In the afternoon under an unbearable heat we have brought in buses to Edfu where we slept in the ship. The day after visiting the temple of Edfu and departure for the cruise on the Nile stopping at the Temple of Kom navigation Ombo.La gave us spectacular views along the banks of the river surrounded by lush vegetation. We then arrived at Aswan in the middle of the night. The next morning we visited a stone quarry that still retained an unfinished obelisk, and then with a characteristic to the island of Phil Feluca which houses a temple here transferred from an Italian archaeological expedition to ensure that it was submerged by the waters of the great dam at Aswan . E 'tata the opportunity to visit and the same dam, a jewel of engineering and precious reservoir water throughout Egypt. After lunch on board another excursion on the Nile, this time by ferry to see the botanical garden of the elephant and, situated on a secondary branch of the river, a village nubian language. Besides the interest in the village, among other very tourist was beautiful when browsing the contact with the children that approached our boat with their small rudimentary boats legno.Patetica instead of the pseudo-language lecture held in Egypt for us in the local scuola.Tornati on our ship, we slept a few hours before being awakened in the middle of the night to reach with a long transfer by bus to the village of Abu Simbel on the border with Sudan. The trip has allowed us to admire the sunrise in the desert and especially the imposing ruins of the famous temple of Ramses II moved here to avoid being submerged by diga.Dal small airport of Abu Simbel, we took a flight with a bielica to Cairo , one of the biggest cities of Mondo.Appena arrived in the Capital we have traveled the streets of the historic center deepening the religious aspect in a city where the Christians, Muslims and Jews. Here, among other things, we visited the Coptic Church, where according to tradition is the house where he stayed the Holy Family during the flight into Egitto.Non is no visit of a few large mosques in one of which houses the tomb of Shah Persia.Dopo of the accommodation in a luxury hotel, the next day visits to the famous pyramids of Giza, and other a little more remote, less crowded and surrounded by desert. New accommodation in hotel and departure by plane for Rome. The Tour was very nice, I got to know many people and make friends. During the trip we were also led to a plant essences for the production of perfume and one of papyri have shown us where the processing of this plant.