Dendera & Abydos Privater Tag

We will pick you up from your hotel in the morning at 5:30 am, drive approx. 250 km to Dendera.

The Dendera Tempel was dedicated to the goddess Hathor, the goddess of maternal qualities and love. This grand Tempel is over 2000 years old. In the Tempel you will Besuchen Sie die holy lake, sanatorium, Mamisi and the only surviving image of Pharaoh Cleopatra. Your Reiseleiter will also show you wunderschön astronomical images on the ceiling and mysterious reliefs in the crypt of the Tempel.

We leave Dendera Tempel and drive for about an Stunde (100 km) until we arrive in Abydos. We will have Mittagessen in Abydos, then our cultural program begins in this historic Stadt.

The god Osiris was worshiped in Abydos and it was one of the most wichtig religious cities of the antike world. In the Tempel of Abydos, you will learn about the eternal struggle between good and evil, about the myth of Horus and Set.

In the Tempel of Abydos you can admire very well-preserved reliefs and flowers, images and symbols of hieroglyphs, which are clearly and accurately carved in stone.

The roster of the kings of Abydos and the pharaoh Ramses II with the crown prince hunting wild animals are some of the besonders scenes in the Tempel.

After an interesting day, we Rückfahrt to Hurghada.