The Botanical Gardens
You will be picked up in an air-conditioned vehicle. Accompanied by our expert guide, you will be taken to the Nile to board a felucca (A typical Egyptian Sailing Boat) to visit the Botanical Garden.

The island located on the other side of Elephantine Island from Aswan. This famous botanical garden is filled with countless of exotic plants and trees imported from all over the world besides very rare palm trees such as the Royal palm tree, the Sabal Palm tree and the phonic Palm tree. The Island is a haven for rare exotic birds too, consequently a great place for bird-watching.

​The island was given to Lord Kitchner for his role in the Sudan campaign (1896-1898), and he moved there and turned the entire island into a botanical garden in the 1928, importing plants from the Far East, India and parts of Africa.

Elephantine Island
After spending some time in the cool shade of the botanical garden, board a felucca to the Elephantine Island. It was one of the most powerful forts on Egypt’s southern borders. On the island there are relics of stone temples of various eras including the temple of Khnum - the ram-headed god of inundation, erected during the old kingdom and reconstructed at the turn of the Pharaonic era. The island houses ‘The Nilometre’ (the Egyptian method of measuring the height of the Nile) dating from the Roman era and also a museum housing an important collection of relics from the Greco-Roman era which were discovered in Aswan and Nubia.