Ancient Egyptian Civilization

The first thing that crosses my mind when anyone talks about Ancient Egyptian Civilization is the three days trip that I had last January with my school friends. The journey starts from Ramses Station in Cairo to take a 12 hours train whose direction is to one of the most amazing, quite places in Upper Egypt.
In such place, we had super Fun by cruising in the Nile, sightseeing ancient monuments, with an English-speaking tour guide and having a custom party. Also we enjoyed the super Place by having so much fun this winter in Ancient Egypt. Moreover, we adored the super weather by enjoying the sunset and wonderful scenery in the middle of the Nile.
In the first day once the train reaches Aswan, we took a bus to take us to watch such an adorable city with its quite streets and its welcoming people. We visited a fascinating place on a small island south of the city of Aswan called Philae temple. This beautiful building was where the sacred barge with the statue of Isis (an ancient Egyptian God) landed during the annual precession down the river. And it consists of 14 columns with screen walls which are decorated with scenes of Trajan making offerings to Isis, Osiris and Horus (ancient Egyptian Gods). After sightseeing such a precious ancient monument, we took a “Fluke” in the Nile till we reach the High Dam – the recent Egyptian achievement- funded by President Gamal Abdel Nasser to control Nile flooding and stores water for times of drought. Finally, after such wonderful day we took a very luxury Nile cruise -having a relaxing sun deck and a swimming pool- from Aswan directed to another small fantastic place called Kom Ombo 28 miles north of Aswan.
By reaching Kom Ombo, we started our second day - after having a very luxurious relaxing night in such amazing Nile Cruise- to visit Kom Ombo temple on the east bank of the Nile, right next to the river. Such temple was dedicated to two ancient Egyptian Gods, Horus and Sobek, the crocodile God, together with his wife, in another form of the Goddess Hathor. Then when we finished our marvelous tour in such fantastic temple, we took our luxurious cruise to enjoy the fantastic weather of Upper Egypt in the middle of the Nile and relax on the sun decks to enjoy the best scenery ever one will see in his life – the sunset in the middle of the Nile-. Then at night we had a custom part where we wear like what our ancient Egyptians wear to really feel the spirit of such ancient amazing place we are visiting.
Moving on with the Nile Cruise in the Nile we started our third and final day in the journey by reaching the Egyptian city where thousands of international tourists arrive annually to visit its monuments, contributing a large part towards the economy of Egypt, the great capital of ancient Egypt, and the glorious city of the ancient Egyptian God Amon-Ra. Such city where the majority of the ancient Egyptian civilization belonging is found, it is the nice warm city Luxor. We started our sightseeing in Luxor by visiting the Temple of Deir El-Bahri -one of the most characteristic temples in the whole of Egypt- having fascinating design and decorations built for the great ancient Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut, to commemorate her achievements and to serve as a funerary Temple for her, as well as a sanctuary of the ancient Egyptian God, Amon Ra. Then, we visited Luxor Temple one of the most beautiful Temples in Egypt and it was the northern house of ancient Egyptian God Amon Ra. After that, we visited The Karnak Temple- the largest Temple in the World- it contains a group of Temples such as the Great Temple of Amon Ra, The Temple of Khonso (an ancient Egyptian King), The Temple of Ptah (an ancient Egyptian King), the Temple of Montho (an ancient Egyptian King) and the Temple of the God Osiris. A massive, mud brick enclosure wall, surrounded all of these buildings to have that huge temple enclosing in it different ancient Egyptian civilization belongings. Finally after sightseeing our ancient Egyptian monuments we go shopping in Luxor shopping center to buy souvenirs reminding us of the best journey we had ever in our life.
To conclude, Egypt is really full of amazing, warm, fascinating places that we have to visit and explore. That is what I realized after spending three days in Upper Egypt where I have seen thousands of international tourists from different places coming to just see what we have in our dear country. So I really recommend if someone does not visit Luxor and Aswan till now it is really worth it to go and spend there your next vacation.