el quseir hotel egyptDendera and Abydos Working day tour
11th Dec 2024
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Enjoy a Private day tour Dendera temple s and Abydos temples from Marsa Alam to go to the temple of Hathor,The Goddess of Love,Songs and Therapeutic then travel to Abydos to go to the temple of Osiris,Abydos was one of An important religious websites to historical Egyptians. Much like modern Muslims hope to accomplish a pilgrimage to Mecca at the least after in their life time, historical Egyptians might have hopes to visit Abydos, which for them was strongly connected to the doorway into your afterlife.
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Pick up time out of your hotel in Marsa Alam
Get time from the lodge in Marsa Alam by Marsa Alam excursions tour guideline, Then Drive to Dendera temple
The space 220 K.m
Marsa Alam – Safaga 60 K.m
Safaga -Dendera one hundred sixty
That has a split inside the desert
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Stop by Dendera temple
Arrive at Dendera at 08: 30, You'll be accompanied by Egyptologist tour manual, He will describe the historical past with the temple
Dendera temple
The Temple of Hathor was mostly produced throughout the Late Ptolemaic period, especially over the reign of Ptolemy XII and Cleopatra VII. Later additions were being built in the course of the Roman period. Despite the fact that built by a dynasty of rulers who were not native Egyptians themselves, the design of the temple continues to be found to get in accordance to that of other classical Egyptian temples, apart from the front of your hypostyle corridor, which, In line with an inscription over the entrance, was produced via the Emperor Tiberius.
Apart from these, there are also scenes within the temple complex portraying the Ptolemaic rulers. For instance, carved onto the exterior confront of among the list of temple walls is a big aid of Cleopatra VII and her son by Julius Caesar and co-ruler, Ptolemy XV (greater called Caesarion). The two Ptolemaic rulers are demonstrated wearing Egyptian garb, and giving sacrifices.
Hathor was also thought to be a goddess of healing, and this is obvious in the presence of a sanatorium within the temple complicated. Below, pilgrims would come to be cured with the goddess. Sacred h2o (which was made holy by obtaining it poured on to statues inscribed with sacred texts) was utilized for bathing, unguents have been dispensed with the clergymen of Hathor, and sleeping quarters ended up furnished for those hoping that the goddess would seem inside their dreams, and so aid them.
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Travel to Abydos temple from Dendera temple
Abydos temple
Thought of one among The most crucial archaeological web sites of Ancient Egypt, the sacred metropolis of Abydos was the location of many historical temples, which includes Umm el-Qa’ab, a royal necropolis in which early pharaohs had been entombed. These tombs started to be noticed as very significant burials and in later on instances it turned fascinating to generally be buried in the region, bringing about the growth of the town’s significance as a cult internet site.
Today, Abydos is noteworthy to the memorial temple of Seti I, which is made up of an inscription with the nineteenth dynasty recognised to the fashionable world as being the Abydos King Listing. It's a chronological checklist demonstrating cartouches of most dynastic pharaohs of Egypt from Menes until Ramesses I, Seti’s father. The good Temple and the vast majority of ancient town are buried under the trendy properties on the north from the Seti temple. Many of the first structures along with the artifacts in them are deemed irretrievable and missing; a lot of may well are already ruined by The brand new development.
Abyos temple Positioned about two.five hrs by car north of Luxor , Abydos was considered one of The main religious internet sites to historical Egyptians. Much like contemporary Muslims hope to complete a pilgrimage to Mecca a minimum of when in their life span, ancient Egyptians would've hopes to visit Abydos, which for them was strongly related to the doorway in to the afterlife.
Though there have been various temples created right here, the most important and most significant is referred to as the Temple of Seti I. Seti I had been the father of the great Ramesses II, who essentially finished the construction of a lot of the temple right after his father’s death.
Coming to ability only thirty a long time once the upheaval related to Akhenaten’s heretical rule, often known as the Amarna Period, Seti I was worried about reestablishing religion during the pantheon of Pre-Amarna gods that Akhenaten had sought to damage.Due to this fact, the temple he constructed includes little chapels dedicated to Every of the most important gods: Ptah, Re-Harakhte, Amun-Re, Osiris, Isis, Horus, in addition to one to Seti himself.A lot with the temple advanced is no longer current, such as the pylon and the main two courtyards so people to enter by way of a doorway into your hypostyle hall. Most of the wall reliefs within are very well preserved and the reliefs toward the back on the temple, accomplished during Seti’s reign, are thought to be between the best in any temple all over Egypt.Given that Abydos is harder to reach than several web-sites, It's not at all incredibly intensely frequented. Once in a while tour buses come from the Beach front resorts or with plenty of cruise ship passengers from your Purple Sea, nonetheless it you time your check out properly, you would possibly find yourself While using the temple elaborate to your self.
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Lunch in Abydos temple
Appreciate Egyptian Lunch by Abydos temple
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Back to the resort
Push back again to Marsa Alam from Abydos temple
Inclusions:
Private tour
Private tour information
Entrance service fees
Lunch
Exclusions:
Dinner
Tipping
Remember to remember to provide:
Passports
Sun shades
Starting From one hundred forty five $
The temple of Hathor
The Temple of Abydos
The Mysterious Cryptic
see Cleopatra Cleopatra VII
The King list
The Flower of Existence
the Egyptian Calendar
* Family members And Team Have a Particular price tag
No cost cancellation up to 24 several hours right before action starts
Duration:
1 Working day
variety:
Personal
Operate:
Every day
Get:
05:00
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