Kalabsha Temple
At the moment –
due to a very extemsive permissions process –
we are no longer doing tours to Kalabsha.
Sorry! Impossible …
Kalabsha Temple Hall
At the moment - due to a very extemsive permissions process - we are no longer doing tours to Kalabsha
Kalabsha, Philae, Highdam, Unfinished Obelisk including well educated guide, vehicle, chaffeur (driving and waiting twice for you), boats and captain to Philae and Kalabsha:
Pick up from your hotel (or ferry) at westbank side, transfer by car (with AC), boat for you to take you to Philae (stay 1 hour).
Boat back and
car to visit Highdam,
then boat and captain to take you and the guide to Kalabsha, Beit Al-Wali and Qertassi and back (stay 1 hour),
finally visit Obelisk.
Count 6 – 7 hours for all.
At the moment – due to a very extemsive permissions process – we are no longer doing
tours to Kalabsha.
Price is as always with Aswan-Individual for the service – NOT for each person.
With Aswan-Individual, vehicles are for you and your group only.
There is no sharing with strangers.
Tickets are never included and
have to be paid at the ticket counters.
If Kalabsha, Beit Al-Wali and Kertassi only: xxx USD less.
About Kalabsha Temple
Kalabsha, which is now flooded by Lake Nasser, was located at the westbanks of the river Nile. The temple, which has been consecrated to Merwel (Greek name: Mandulis) – a Nubian God of the Sun – had been built 29 – 14 BC, about 40 km south of Aswan. Amelia Edwards (English author, 1874) called it the „Karnak of Nubia“; it is 71 meter long and 35 meter wide. To transport it from its orignial site (40 km south from today) it had to be cut into 13.000 blocks.
„To prevent the Mandulis-Temple of the flood and to conserve it for future generations, the government of Germany has followed the calling of the UNESCO and carried off this temple in Kalabsha in the year 1962, to reconstruct it in the year 1963 as a sign of friendship to the people of the Arabic Republic.“
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- Giraffe and hunter
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- Antelopes
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- Elephant
Kiosk of Qertassi
Beyit Al-Wali
Egypt battling a Syrian City: See people falling from the city walls
Beyit Al-Wali
The second temple, northwest of Kalabsha-Temple, is called Beyit al Wali (House of the Govenor), which has been built from the viceroy for Ramses II. Ramses has ordered to cut it into the rock near Kalabsha, to honour Amun-Re.
On the walls of the forecourt impressing reliefs are preserved: fighting scenes with Syrian and Libyan on the right side, Ethiopians on the left. One can get goose pimples watching Ramses gripping the hair of his enemies prior to smashing their brains while women beside plead for mercy.
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- Pictures of Love
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- and brutal killing
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- Defeated African Opponents
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- bringing gifts
