Today we will take you for a day tour to visit St Simeon’s Monastery,where you can join a camel ride to the southern tip of Elephantine Island where you will find St Simeon’s Monastery, an ancient, abandoned fortress monastery mostly built during the 7th century and located near Aswan.
The monastery was given the name St Simeon by archaeologists and travelers, but earlier Arabic and Coptic sources called it Anba Hatre (Hidra, Hadri, Hadra), after an anchorite who was consecrated a bishop of Syene (now Aswan) by Patriarch Theophilus (385-412 AD).then you will visit the Aga Khan Mausoleum.This is the Mausoleum of Mohammed Shah Aga Khan. He was the spiritual leader of the Ismailis, a Shiite Sect, with followers around the world (mainly in India).The Aga Khan succeeded his father in 1885, and was succeeded by his son upon his death in 1957.Transfer back to your hotel.
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