You will be picked up from your hotel in Aswan accompanied by a guide, you will be taken to the Nile to board a felucca (sailing boat) to visit the Botanical Garden.Botanical Garden and Elephantine Island. Botanical Garden and Elephantine Island the island called Kitchener island because in 1899 lord Kitchener during his military campaigns in the Sudan made the island his head-quarter for his army, it was then known as the lords house. and he moved there, created his garden and imported plants and trees from all over the world. After spending some time in the cool shade of the botanical garden, board a felucca to the Elephantine Island. It was one of the most powerful forts on Egypt’s southern borders. On the island there are relics of stone temples of various eras including the temple of Khnum – the ram-headed god of inundation, erected during the old kingdom and reconstructed at the turn of the Pharaonic era. The island houses ‘The Nilometre’ (the Egyptian method of measuring the height of the Nile) dating from the Roman era and also a museum housing an important collection of relics from the Greco-Roman era which were discovered in Aswan and Nubia. After exploring you will be dropped back to your hotel in Aswan. Price US$35 Per person

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