Day Tour to Kom Ombo, and Edfu - Hotel

Overview

A horse carriage will be waiting for you and your private guide  to explore the Temple of Horus in Edfu. Dedicated to Horus, the falcon god, the temple was built from 230 to 57 BC by Ptolemy 
III and his successors and is considered the best preserved cult temple in Egypt because of its later construction date. Despite its late era origins, it reflects traditional pharaonic architecture, and the Temple’s inscribed building texts provides an excellent idea of how all the temples once looked, with details about its construction. It fell into disuse as a religious monument when the Roman Empire banned all nonChristian worship within the Empire in 391. Edfu is an impressive temple, and is the second largest in Egypt after Karnak Temple
The Kom Ombo Temple:
t with your private guide and disembark from your Nile cruise to explore on foot the Kom Ombo Temple, a unique GrecoRoman temple dedicated to two gods: Sobek, the crocodile god, and Haroeris, the sun god. The Temple in Kom Ombo dates from about 180 BC, during a period known as the Ptolemaic era, and had some additions built on to it during Roman times. It stands right on the bank of the Nile between Edfu and Aswan. The temple is unusual in that it is a double temple, with one side dedicated to the god Haroesis and the other side to Sobek. The design is almost perfectly symmetrical, with two sidebyside sanctuaries and two parallel passageways leading through the outer parts of the temple. The right side is dedicated to SobekRe (the crocodile god combined with the sun god Re), along with his wife (a form of Hathor) and their son KhonsuHor. Sobek is associated with Seth, the enemy of Horus. In the myth of Horus and Osiris, Seth and his followers changed themselves into crocodiles to escape. The ancient Egyptians believed that by honoring the fearsome crocodile as a god, they would be safe from attacks. The left side is dedicated to Haroeris, the "Good Doctor" (a form of the falconheaded god Horus the Elder) along with his consort TaSentNefer, the "Good Sister" (another form of Hathor).