Kom Ombo

Fotoschlumpfs Abenteuerreisen makes a Nile Cruise

Photo Smurf Adventure makes a Nile Cruise As part of its Nile cruise in September 2011. Photo Smurf Adventure Tours also  visited the ancient Egyptian Temple of Kom Ombo on the eastern side of the Nile.  Today the temple is nearly 4 kilometers from the same place with more than  70,000 inhabitants.  Kom Ombo is approximately halfway between Aswan and Edfu. In ancient times,  the temple complex was also known as Pa-Sebek. This means as much as "Empire  of the Crocodile God." Already in the predynastic period crocodiles were  worshiped as gods in this area. The temple, which is dedicated to the gods and Sobek, the crocodile god, and the falcon-headed Haroeris, was built for the most part in the Ptolemaic period.  Unfortunately, the Temple of Kom Ombo in the course of his now more than two  millennia continuing existence of floods or other acts of nature was badly  damaged. The temple is located about 20 meters above the Nile, this gives an  idea of ​​how bad the flooding of the Nile must have been earlier.  These ruins were buried by sand long time in half. Fortunately, in this temple also  saved the image from vandalism desecration in the earlier centuries of the  currently known God of the Jews, Christians and Arabs. Although the population  of the Nile today worshiping other gods, so the couple in Kom Ombo still has its  fans. Other temples As to tape Edfu today are further away from the Nile, this  has to do with the fact that the river changed its bed in the course of millennia.  This is done both in a natural way, but also the man hurried along. The Nile at  Kom Ombo has the course but not modified. As a result of this temple is one of  the busiest temple on the Nile cruise. The Nilkreuzfahrer create almost directly to the temple complex. After only a  few steps away in the former sanctuary, but still on hallowed ground.  What makes this temple unique? The plant as a double temple for Sobek and  Haroeris. Twin temples were in the ancient Egyptian time actually rather rare.  Built by the Ptolemies temple is believed to have originated over two earlier  temples from the days of the New and the Middle Kingdom. Two become one and  then both adore the gods. Protects the checkout. The temple complex was entered by Photo Smurf Adventure Travel on the west  side through an entrance pylon. Admission costs the equivalent of about 25  Egyptian pounds, which meant after the exchange short in 2011 just over 2.50  euro. The left path follows the temple of the falcon-headed Haroeris the left of the  Sobek. In the then following Säulensaal this dichotomy continues. After a few  more rooms you will then be in Sankthuare, the most holy place where there  were both deities.