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Assuan, is a city in the south of Egypt, the capital of the Aswan Governorate.
It stands on the east bank of the Nile at the first cataract and is a busy market and tourist centre. The modern city has expanded and includes the formerly separate community on the island of Elephantine.
Aswan is the ancient city of Swenet, which in antiquity was the frontier town of Ancient Egypt facing the south. Swenet is supposed to have derived its name from an Egyptian goddess with the same name[citation needed]. This goddess later was identified as Eileithyia by the Greeks and Lucina by the Romans during their occupation of Ancient Egypt because of the similar association of their goddesses with childbirth, and of which the import is "the opener". The ancient name of the city also is said to be derived from the Egyptian symbol for trade.
Day01: Cairo - Aswan - Luxor
OneSkyToursEgypt representative will pick you up from your hotel in Cairo by air conditioned private vehicle to Cairo airport to fly to Aswan where you will be met and assisted by our tour guide to see first,Aswan highlights then visiting the Aswan High Dam,then seeing the Granite Quarries and the Temple of Philae and the Unfinished Obelisk with Felucca sail on the Nile to Kitchener Island and Elephantine Island in Aswan then you will be directed to Aswan train station to take the train to Luxor, Meet &assist at Luxor train station and transfer to your hotel in Luxor. Overnight in Luxor.
Luxor was the ancient city of Thebes, the great capital of Egypt during the New Kingdom, and the glorious city of the god Amon-Ra.
The importance of the city started as early as the 11th Dynasty, when the town grew into a thriving city, renowned for its high social status and luxury, but also as a center for wisdom, art, religious and political supremacy
Aswan is Egypt's hottest, driest inhabited city. Aswan's climate ranges from mild in the winter to very hot in the summer with absolutely no rain all year. Maybe 1 or 2 mm of rain every 5 years. Aswan is one of the driest inhabited places in the world; as of early 2001, the last rain there was seven years earlier. As of 6 April 2010[update], the last rainfall was a thunderstorm on May 13, 2006. In Nubian settlements, they generally do not bother to roof all of the rooms in their houses
Day02: Luxor -Cairo
Breakfast in hotel, Then you will be met and accompanied by our Egyptologist tour guide and will travel in a private air-conditioned deluxe vehicle to visit the amazing Karnak temple the largest place of worship ever built.You will have your Lunch on the way at very good quality restaurant and then you will enjoy a trip to the West Bank of The Nile River to visit the two colossal statues of Amenhotep III,and then visit the Valley of the Kings, where the magnificent tombs were discovered, those tombs were carved deep into the desert rock,richly decorated and filled with treasures for the afterlife of the pharaohs, you will visit 3 tombs,Then you will continue the tour to visit the Hatshepsut temple at El Deir El Bahary, this impressive temple was dedicated to the Queen Hatshepsut the only female pharaoh rises out of the desert plain in a series of terraces and merges with the sheer limestone cliffs that surround it and then you will be transferred to Luxorairport back to Cairo with a drive back to your hotel for an enjoyable overnight in Cairo.

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<h1>River nile history among luxor and aswan holidayes trips</h1> Author: <a href='http://www.articleseen.com/profile_sky tours.aspx'>sky tours</a> Assuan, is a city in the south of Egypt, the capital of the Aswan Governorate.
It stands on the east bank of the Nile at the first cataract and is a busy market and tourist centre. The modern city has expanded and includes the formerly separate community on the island of Elephantine.
Aswan is the ancient city of Swenet, which in antiquity was the frontier town of Ancient Egypt facing the south. Swenet is supposed to have derived its name from an Egyptian goddess with the same name[citation needed]. This goddess later was identified as Eileithyia by the Greeks and Lucina by the Romans during their occupation of Ancient Egypt because of the similar association of their goddesses with childbirth, and of which the import is "the opener". The ancient name of the city also is said to be derived from the Egyptian symbol for trade.
Day01: Cairo - Aswan - Luxor 
OneSkyToursEgypt representative will pick you up from your hotel in Cairo by air conditioned private vehicle to Cairo airport to fly to Aswan where you will be met and assisted by our tour guide to see first,Aswan highlights then visiting the Aswan High Dam,then seeing the Granite Quarries and the Temple of Philae and the Unfinished Obelisk with Felucca sail on the Nile to Kitchener Island and Elephantine Island in Aswan then you will be directed to Aswan train station to take the train to Luxor, Meet &assist at Luxor train station and transfer to your hotel in Luxor. Overnight in Luxor.
Luxor was the ancient city of Thebes, the great capital of Egypt during the New Kingdom, and the glorious city of the god Amon-Ra.
The importance of the city started as early as the 11th Dynasty, when the town grew into a thriving city, renowned for its high social status and luxury, but also as a center for wisdom, art, religious and political supremacy
Aswan is Egypt's hottest, driest inhabited city. Aswan's climate ranges from mild in the winter to very hot in the summer with absolutely no rain all year. Maybe 1 or 2 mm of rain every 5 years. Aswan is one of the driest inhabited places in the world; as of early 2001, the last rain there was seven years earlier. As of 6 April 2010[update], the last rainfall was a thunderstorm on May 13, 2006. In Nubian settlements, they generally do not bother to roof all of the rooms in their houses
Day02: Luxor -Cairo
Breakfast in hotel, Then you will be met and accompanied by our Egyptologist tour guide and will travel in a private air-conditioned deluxe vehicle to visit the amazing Karnak temple the largest place of worship ever built.You will have your Lunch on the way at very good quality restaurant and then you will enjoy a trip to the West Bank of The Nile River to visit the two colossal statues of Amenhotep III,and then visit the Valley of the Kings, where the magnificent tombs were discovered, those tombs were carved deep into the desert rock,richly decorated and filled with treasures for the afterlife of the pharaohs, you will visit 3 tombs,Then you will continue the tour to visit the Hatshepsut temple at El Deir El Bahary, this impressive temple was dedicated to the Queen Hatshepsut the only female pharaoh rises out of the desert plain in a series of terraces and merges with the sheer limestone cliffs that surround it and then you will be transferred to Luxorairport back to Cairo with a drive back to your hotel for an enjoyable overnight in Cairo.About the Author: For more information visit us at http://www.oneskytoursegypt.com/Excursions/Egypt-Cairo/Luxor-Aswan-Trip/
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