Heading to The Temples of Philae | Egypt Travel Blog: Day 3 (Part 27) 02D20

Philae Temple – The Temple of Isis at Philae | Aswan

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We reached a small dock from where we would take a boat to reach the Philae Temple. The dock area had lots of stores selling ornaments, miniature pyramids, temples, statues of Egyptian gods, and much more. Some sellers were on the side of the street displaying their wares on the street.

I liked the whole mini port-like environment there. There were lots of boats docked there, but we headed to our designated boat arranged by the tour company.

These boats are open-air boats with only a shade on top. The engine was nothing fancy. It would accommodate about 15-20 people.

It would take about 15 minutes to reach the island. I saw many other boats passing by filled with tourists. The scenarios along the shore were very pleasant. I saw the shorelines full of rocks and some of them were shaped like small hills.

As we approached the Philae temples on Agilkia Island, the columns and intact walls appeared to rise up out of the water among the large rocks.

I was still contemplating how they moved the whole temples from one island to another (see my previous post).

The dock here was another small one, but looked different because of the surrounding waters. We started to offload from the boat and walked a little bit uphill to reach the entrance of the temples.