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Luxor
Templos de Dendera y Abidos: excursión de un día desde Luxor
Los dos templos mejor conservados de Egipto, techos pintados incluidos, en un día que la mayoría se salta.
9 hPrivado
85 €Luxor y el Nilo
Dendera y Abidos
Los dos templos mejor conservados de Egipto, al norte de Luxor por la carretera del Nilo.
- Dendera
- templo de Hathor, c. 54 a. C.–60 d. C., Ptolomeos y romanos
- Techo de Dendera
- limpiado 2005–2020; zodiaco (el original está en el Louvre)
- Abidos
- templo de Seti I, c. 1290 a. C.; siete santuarios
- Lista Real
- 76 cartuchos de Menes a Seti I
Dendera (60 km al norte de Luxor) es el templo ptolemaico-romano de Hathor con su techo, sus techos pintados limpios, el zodiaco y el relieve de Cleopatra; Abidos (160 km) es el templo de Seti I con los relieves más finos de Egipto y la Lista Real de Abidos. Juntos forman un día de nueve horas desde Luxor; Dendera sola es medio día.
La visita
Abydos was the burial place of the first kings and the pilgrimage centre of Osiris for three thousand years. The temple Seti I built there has an L-shaped plan with seven sanctuaries for seven gods and reliefs carved in raised relief so fine they look modelled in wax. In a corridor at the back, the King List names every legitimate king before Seti and omits Hatshepsut, Akhenaten and Tutankhamun. Behind it lies the Osireion, a granite hall built as the tomb of Osiris.
Dendera is thirteen centuries younger and complete: the hypostyle hall with 24 Hathor-headed columns and a ceiling that shows the sky goddess Nut swallowing the sun each evening, the sanctuary, the crypts with the "Dendera light" relief, the staircases up to the roof chapels for the New Year, and, on the rear wall, Cleopatra VII and her son Caesarion making offerings.
The road between them runs along the Nile through the villages of the Qena governorate, and the day is as much about that as the temples.
Consejos de nuestros guías
- Abydos first (furthest), Dendera on the way back
- Climb to the Dendera roof; the guide has the key to the crypts
- The day is long: 09:00 start from Luxor, back 16:00
Mejor época: De octubre a abril.
Preguntas
Yes, as a five-hour half day from Luxor, morning or afternoon.
Yes, without convoy since 2016. Private cars with licensed drivers and a guide with a Ministry of Tourism ID.
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