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Traveler Rating
22 reviews 31 travel blogs 179 photos Attraction Type:
Ancient ruins, Historic site
TravelPod Member ReviewsAbydos Nile River Valley
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Long Drive
catherine647 3 contributions Toronto, Canada Jan 4, 2012
It was a long drive but well worth it. Amazing site. An armed guard followed us around, at a distance, but didn't seem to want anything.
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Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Visited this Attraction Abydos Nile River Valley
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Beautiful, Quiet Temples
Our day started with a wait for the train. Lots of interesting sites. People continued to cross right up to the moment the train passed in front of them, including the blind man guided by a family member. Good thing the train was only going about 10 kph.
It was an hour drive to our first temple, two hours to our second, and three hours to … -
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Helicopters and Lightbulbs
Woke up early at 5.30 and was glad to see the wind was blowing in the right direction this morning and the flotilla of balloons drifted off in the right direction. Not sure where they came down though as I had to go to and buy myself a packed lunch before going to breakfast.
Luxor has its own English style delicatessen that claims to stock …
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Related BlogsAbydos Nile River Valley
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Abydos and Dendara Temple
... family expands. So what did we do today? With police escort behind and in front, we continued on the Abydos. It is a beautiful temple where alot of the original color remains. We had to wait until after ...
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Abydos...
... that funny, but it kept him in stitches the rest of the day, and he would mumble it to himself at different intervals. Abydos was definitely worth the trek. The carvings were some of the best we had seen, but we didn't feel that we needed the ...
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Tour of Abydos & Dendara
Today we were being met on the East Bank by our tour guide (Ali) and driver Mahmoud (yep another) for the trip to Abydos and Dendara. We organised this through Mara House. It is a 2.5hr drive to Abydos and then we come back to Dendara and a further 1hr ...
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The Winter Palace, Denderah and Abydos
... frequent Egypt more regularly. During the day, my Luxor guide Mahmoud and I joined the tourist convoy to Denderah and Abydos. The convoy itself fascinated me, just how the security forces have been organized in Egypt since the violence at ...
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Valley of the Kings...
... hers. We fit all that in, and it wasn't even lunchtime. We got our guide to drop us off at the Nile Valley hotel for lunch, were we would later meet Gill and John to join their afternoon itinerary. The hotel was nice, the drinks refreshing, ...
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Valley of the Kings/Temple of Hatshepsut
... who took us to Abydos and Dendara, all were satisfactory. We could not wait to explore the Valley of the Kings, the resting place of Egypt's pharaohs from Thutmosis I to Rameses X or XI. The ancient Egyptians had intended to hide the great ...
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Ruins
... on our first day in Luxor (and our second day, actually). Our first day took us to Karnak, Memnon, Hatshepsut temple, Valley of the Kings, Medinet Habu, and Valley of the Queens. We saw the Great Hypostyle Hall, in Karnak--this huge ancient ...
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Valley of the Queens, Valley of the Kings
... day at Abydos and Dendara on 28th we arranged with Abdo, our guide from yesterday to take us to the Valley of the Kings, again by donkey. After crossing the Nile once again in one of the many small motor boats that line the banks we again had tea in ...
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Luxor...
... be good to get as much of the East bank in today, the West bank (Valley of the Kings) in tomorrow, and organize a day trip to Abydos and Dendara on our 'free day.' The theory of resting on our free day was obliterated by my desire to get as much in as ...
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Dendara...
Amed had quite the surprise in store for us for our trip to Dendara. He had canvassed all the other drivers while we busy in Abydos, and came up with an English-language tape. He put it in with great anticipation, and Ben and I were really intrigued. We ...
Abydos Map
- Tanis
- North Pyramid
- Temple of Karnak
- Temple of Khnum
- Bent Pyramid
- Abu Rawash (Abu Rowash)
- Physician's Tomb (Mastaba of Ankh-Mahor)
- Presidential Nile Odyssey
- Pyramid of Unas
- Mastaba of Ti
- Serapium
- Step Pyramid of Djoser
- Tomb of Nefer
- Mastaba of Mereruka Tomb
- Djoser's Pyramid
- Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep's Mastaba
- Pyramids of Dahshour
- Great Sphinx
- Pyramids of Giza
- Prestige Equestrian Egypt