Transfer
Aswan -> Luxor
Aswan to Luxor (or Luxor to Aswan)
including stops at Komombo Temple and Edfu Temple
Other stops or guides are possible, please see options.
Options
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- Komombo Entry
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- Inside Edfu Temple
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- Komombo: Sobek (left)
Horus guarding Edfu Temple
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- Inside El Kab
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- Esna Temple
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- Tombs at Silsila
Aswan to Luxor or Luxor to Aswan including visits at Komombo and Edfu Temple(or Aswan - Komombo - Edfu - Aswan)
Count 8 hours, including 1 hour at each temple in Komombo and Edfu:
Luxor to Aswan with 2 stops – Car: $140
(1-2 Guests with optional guide or
3 guests but no guide and little luggage fitting in trunk).
Luxor to Aswan with 2 stops – Microbus (3-6 Guests): $205
Luxor to Aswan with 2 stops – Microbus (7-8 Guests): $215
Please note: Prices are for East Bank Hotels both cities.
West Bank Hotel locations add $13usd each city for car
and $18usd each way for a microbus.
Dahabiya Pick Ups also come with additional transportation cost.
You are free to choose your own time for departure.
The tourist police requests you to arrive before sunset.
Count 8 hours drive incl. 1h stops at Komombo and Edfu.
(Ticket counters at Edfu closes at 4 pm, Komombo at 7 pm)
Every more stop plus about 1.5 hours.
Tickets are never included.
Guide (optional) for Komombo, Edfu, Esna Temple
Usually guests stop at Komombo and Edfu Temple. Both are beautiful, interesting and on the way at eastbank side.
For Esna a guide is not optional, but required. Esna Temple is at westbank side and therefore takes much more driving to cross the Nile twice.
Luxor to Aswan – Guide for two temples: $65
Luxor to Aswan – Guide for three visits: $80
Please understand that taking a guide with you, you have one seat less in your rented vehicle.
Other possible stops on the way: Camel Market (Daraw), Esna, El Kab or Silsila
If 1h stop at Camel Market on your way from Aswan to Luxor: plus $15
The Camelmarket in Daraw is only possibile to visit at weekends – and, as it closes early – only on the way from Aswan to Luxor.
If stop at Esna Temple (longer driving, therefore): plus $15 plus guide
For Esna, El Kab or Silsila you need to have a guide to be with you.
Because the tourist police requests you to arrive before sunset and ticket counters close usually at 4 pm, you cannot stop at all sights which are on the way, during one transfer due of timing reasons.
In case you like to change options/stops, please ask by email about your wishes which sights to visit, if with or without guide, car or microbus and how much would be the cost.
Silsila and El Kab …
… must be charged differently, takes longer and is not always permitted. Please ask if you are interested in El Kab or Silsila.
Camelmarkt in Daraw
By car through Edfu
Without stops: driver and car for transfer only
Vehicle and driver only, transfer between Aswan and Luxor (or Luxor and Aswan) without stop at sights (count 5 hours):
Luxor to Aswan without stop – Car: $140 ?????????????
(3 Guests max. and little luggage fitting in trunk)
East bank Hotels both cities:
If staying on the west bank in either city there is a
+$13usd charge for any west bank locations
Luxor to Aswan without stop – Microbus (3-6 Guests): $205 ?????????????
If staying on the west bank in either city there is a
+$18usd charge for any west bank locations
Luxor to Aswan without without stop – Microbus (7-8 Guests): $215 ?????????????
If staying on the west bank in either city there is a
+$18usd charge for any west bank locations
Good to know
Edfu Temple is very impressing. The inside reminds of a cathedral with side chapels covered with frescos from floor to ceiling. But instead of paintings all is deeply carved to reliefs, sometimes colours still show. It is horrible to watch tourists who love to touch or even scrape the walls, probably there won’t be much time until a lot will be destroyed. The Temple of Horus is one of the biggest ptolemaic tempels of Egypt. The building was started about 2250 years ago, but followed older architectural rules.
Komombo Temple is just aside the Nile. It has two entrances, two halls, two sanctuaries. Two deities were adored in this temple: the left half was for the Falcon God Horus, the right side for the Crocodile God Sobek. The temple is about 2200 years old.
A warning about changing coins:
At the entrance a lot of carriages are waiting for customers. Maybe you might be asked to change European coins as the bank does not take them:
A man was counting to me 20 Euros in little coins. Slowly. We were surrounded by other carriage drivers. He asked me for 150 EGP which was okay at that time. I gave him a 100- plus 50-Egyptian Pound banknotes. He took them and gave them to another man. He counted the Euros once more. Put them in my hand and became angry in the same moment, complaining the 50-Pound-banknote would have been a 50-Piaster-banknote and showed it to me. I knew this was not true, the other man had changed the 50-Pound to a 50-Piaster-banknote. I glared and shouted at them and walked away, expecting they will try to stop me …
… Instead another carriage driver came after me to ask, if I would make a tour with him. I tried to get rid of him. So he left. The other men had vanished too. And when I wanted to put away the coins, I opened my hands and saw there were only 20-Cent Pieces worth about 5 Euro, instead of the additional Euro coins he had shown before.
Please be careful also: there are 1-Pound-coins which look almost like 1-Euro-Coins.
My advice:
I had been told before from other tourists not to change money. But coins are not changed at banks. I have done it a lot of times and made a lot of honest people happy with it. You will know who you can trust and which situation is not good. Then just say „La, wae Ma’a Salam“ (No and Good Bye) and get away.
Komombo: One temple for two deities
Carriages waiting in Edfu
Too many for one horse: have pity! and afford two carriages
Stay in contact
P.S. – I was shocked with the state of the horses there at Egypt (first at Edfu and then at Luxor). Most of them were all ribs showing and looking underfed and overworked. It broke my heart. Many people would dismiss my feelings for the poor horses, saying that people’s suffering is more important, however the poor animals don’t have any choice at all in the life they have 🙁
I rode a horse carriage to reach the Edfu temple, but nevermore. At the end of the trip I would have given baksheesh for the horse, if the driver haven’t tried to cheat us with the old piasters-for-pounds trick 🙁
Regardless, I plan to contribute with a donation to the Brooke Animal Hospital in my next round of bill payments…
… the trip you organized for me
from Luxor to Aswan on the 16th of April was just terrific. My guide Islam arrived with car and driver at my Luxor West Bank hotel well before the 6:30 pickup time, so we were well on our way by 6:30. I must compliment you on the driver, who was very competent and perhaps the least frightening driver I have encountered so far in Egypt.
My guide Islam was just fantastic. He obviously has a very good education in Egyptian history and religion, and was able to explain the nuances an complexities of the religious structure very well. He also had an intimate knowledge of the temples we visited (Esna, Edfu, Kom Ombo) and was able to provide extensive information on the architecture and wall reliefs. I especially enjoyed the trip across the Nile to visit Silsila. …
I have put a review on Trip Adviser, under the name GoneTravelling_2011.
Thanks to you all for a wonderful day …
When Waleed sent us a text upon our arrival in Cairo we felt confident we were in safe hands, and when we were met by his smiling face in Aswan we felt we’d found a long lost friend!
Waleed organised everything perfectly for us in Aswan (including an excellent guide, Abdulla) and for our drive up to Luxor via Daraw, Edfu and Kom Ombo.
… We felt we could call on Waleed for anything if the need arose, and we did in fact text him when we were back in Cairo and he responded promptly with some very useful advice.
