Every Friday
Three nights, Aswan to Luxor
3 nightsFull board5 mooringsEgyptologist guide
- Aswan
- Kom Ombo
- Edfu
- Esna
- Luxor
Board Friday at noon in Aswan, wake up on Monday in Luxor. Five moorings, four temples, one lock.
M/S Luna Shore visits The Unfinished Obelisk
Aswan
The Unfinished Obelisk
Still lying in the quarry where it cracked, three and a half thousand years ago.
Typical visit40 minutes
Would have been42 m, ~1,200 tonnes
Included onBoth sailings
Had it been finished it would have been the largest obelisk ever raised — 42 metres, around 1,200 tonnes. A fissure opened in the granite while it was still attached to the bedrock, and it was abandoned exactly where it lay.
That abandonment is why it matters: the quarry floor still shows the tool marks, the trenches cut by hand around the shaft, and the dolerite pounders left behind. There is no better place to understand how the things in every other temple were actually made.
Visit it with us
The sailings that call here
Every Friday
Every Monday
Four nights, Luxor to Aswan
4 nightsFull board5 mooringsFelucca included
- Luxor
- Esna
- Edfu
- Kom Ombo
- Aswan
Board Monday at noon in Luxor, wake up on Friday in Aswan. Two days at Luxor, and an afternoon under sail.