2-26 to 2-27 Aboard the MS Royal Orchid, with visits to Kom Ombo double sided temple one sided dedicated to the crocodile god Sobec and the other side to the falcon god Horus the Elder (Haroeris). Then a visit to Edfu and the Temple of Horus. Pictures in the Ms The Royal Orchid Gallery.
Kom Ombo (كوم أمبو) (Coptic: ⲉⲙⲃⲱ Embo; Greek: Ὄμβοι Omboi, Ptol. or Ombos or Latin: Ambo and Ombi – is an agricultural town in Egypt famous for the Temple of Kom Ombo. It was originally an Egyptian city called Nubt, meaning City of Gold, It became a Greek settlement during the Greco-Roman Period. In Kom Ombo there is a rare engraved image of Cleopatra VII in the walls of the main temple and also the engraving of what is though to be the first representation of medical instruments for performing surgery, including scalpels, curettes, forceps, dilator, scissors and medicine bottles dating from the days of the Roman Egypt.
Monastery of ST. Simeon camel ride
Monastery of ST. Simeon camel ride
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