Temple of Abu Simbel

Egyptian visited and spearheaded the Pyramids of Giza: It temples of Abu Simbel, which will be amazed when you see it.

 

 The transfer of temples historic event in 1960 on was threatened with drowning in Lake Nasser when the Aswan High Dam. Fired the Egyptian government with the support of UNESCO's global appeal to help save these huge landmarks. The process was successfully dismantled and transported to a place rises about 60 meters above the rock where it was originally built.

The Temple of Ramses II, the most famous and the youngest of two temples have been built for his favorite wife Nefertari in the 13th century BC.

Represents a huge facade of the temple of Ramses II four giant statues sitting. The width of the facade 119 feet, and a height of 100 feet, the height of each statue Faisal to 67 feet. The president leads the door to the internal interface of the temple 185 feet long, which is a rocky cave man-made lead to a series of halls and rooms.

 

The most important feature of the temple of Abu Simbel is that it was directed in a way that allows the sun in the morning that reflected the internal length of the cave temple twice in each year, Fasult the light is on four statues of gods seated deep in the cave.

Pyramids of Giza Plateau

Pharaonic Egypt at all, and is located directly outside the boundaries of Cairo in a place known as the Giza Plateau.

The Pyramids of Giza consists of three pyramids, the oldest known as the Pyramid of Cheops, this majestic pyramid who feel small your size before bulkiness, one of the seven wonders of the world, and is the only one that still remains in place until today! The hierarchical Khafre and Menkaure understanding of - despite Dkhamthma - younger.

And after a few steps to the east, you will see three small piles of stones (20 meters high), representing queens pyramids and tombs of the wives and sisters of Cheops.
And close to them, also in the Giza plateau, you'll see the Great Sphinx and the Museum of the sun compound, a site that also are held on sound and light shows famous, where testing each of visiting Egypt, fun and exciting camel ride for the first time.

Ticket prices and tariffs visit Al-Ahram:
Regular: 60 pounds, students: 30 pounds
Pyramid of Cheops: Regular: 100 pounds, students: 50 pounds
Pyramid of Khafre: Regular: 30 EGP Student: 15 pounds
Pyramid of Menkaure: Regular: 25 Egyptian pounds, students: 15 pounds

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Tourism experts express deep reservations over appointment of Adel El-Khayat – a leading member of the formerly-violent Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya group – as head of Egypt's tourist-friendly Luxor governorate

The local tourism sector might receive a fresh blow after the appointment of Adel El-Khayat, a founding member of Egypt's militant Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya group, as governor of the tourist-friendly LOn Sunday, President Mohamed Morsi issued a decree appointing 17 new provincial governors, including El-Khayat.Seven of the new governors are members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the group from which the president hails, including those appointed to the Nile Delta governorates of Gharbiya and Menoufiya.Tourism industry insiders voiced surprise and concern over Morsi's decision to assign the ultra-conservative El-Khayat to the top post in Luxor, considered one of the world's largest open-air museums. On Monday, dozens of residents gathered outside the governor's office to protest the move.  An official Luxor governorate source told Ahram Online on condition of anonymity that protesters had raised placards reading: "We don't want terrorists" and "The government has replaced an ambassador with a terrorist."Luxor’s outgoing governor, Ezzat Saad, had formerly served as Egypt’s ambassador to Russia.Egypt's Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya group, of which the 52-year-old El-Khayat remains a leading member, was responsible for the infamous1997 Luxor attack in which at least 58 foreign tourists and four Egyptians were killed.The group was also implicated in the 1981 assassination of president Anwar El-Sadat, after which El-Khayat was sentenced to one year in prison without a charge.In an ideological u-turn, the group formally renounced violence in the immediate wake of the Luxor attack. Following Egypt's 2011 popular uprising, which ended Hosni Mubarak's three-decade rule, the group established the Building and Development Party as its political arm."I don't know what expertise El-Khayat has in tourism," said the official source. "All I know is that he ran in student union elections at Assiut University in the early 1970s."'Scaring tourists to death'Ihab Moussa, head of the Egyptian Coalition to Support Tourism (CST), told Ahram Online: "Morsi is scaring tourists to death by appointing this man to the governorship of Luxor."He added that the CST was "very irritated" by the appointment and had given President Morsi a 72-hour deadline to reverse the decision. Otherwise, he warned, the coalition would lodge an official complaint with UNESCO, the UN's world heritage organisation."We will inform UNESCO that our antiquities in Luxor, which are considered world heritage sites, are in danger because the man in charge of them belongs to a terrorist group that committed the Luxor massacre," said Moussa.Moussa went on to accuse President Morsi of wanting "to destroy tourism," adding that the CST planned to take part in demonstrations outside the Luxor governor's office to bar El-Khayat from entering the building.Former tourism minister Mounir Fakhri Abdel-Nour, for his part, told Ahram Online that El-Khayat's appointment constituted proof that Morsi and his associates were "losing control.""The new governor's mindset entirely contradicts tourism, especially when hard-line Islamists see ancient statues as pagan idols that must be demolished," said Abdel-Nour.Last November, the CTS announced that it would file a case against top Egyptian officials for failing to respond to statements made by radical Salafist scholar Morgan El-Gohary, who had issued calls for the demolition of Giza's Sphinx and Pyramids. "They were worshipped once and could be worshipped again," El-Gohary had warned at the time.'An excellent choice'On Sunday, Reuters reported that Morsi's supporters had defended El-Khayat's appointment, pointing out that Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya had successfully curbed crime in Upper Egypt, where the group is well integrated into the local tribal system."They are the most capable force for guarding security in the Upper Egyptian provinces," said Mostafa El-Gheinemy, a member of the Brotherhood's authoritative Guidance Bureau. He went on to call El-Khayat's appointment an "excellent choice.""It is impossible to exclude one faction, even if its history is bad, as long as they have rid themselves of these ideas," El-Gheinemy told Reuters.Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou recently announced that the country had received roughly five million tourists – worth some $4 billion in revenue – since the outset of 2013.Speaking last week, Zaazou asserted that tourist arrivals could reach a total of 13 million by year's end, bringing the industry close to its pre-revolution record of 14.8 million tourists in 2010.