Kom Ombo
Kom Ombo is an agricultural town in Egypt famous for the Temple of Kom Ombo.
Kom Ombo is an agricultural town in Egypt famous for the Temple of Kom Ombo. It was originally an ancient Egyptian city called Nubt, meaning City of Gold. Nubt is also known as Nubet or Nubyt. It became a Greek settlement during the Greco-Roman Period. The town's location on the Nile, 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Aswan (Syene), gave it some control over trade routes from Nubia to the Nile Valley, but its main rise to prominence came with the erection of the Temple of Kom Ombo in the 2nd century BC.
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Worth seeing in and around Kom Ombo
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Temple of Kom Ombo
The Temple of Kom Ombo is an unusual double temple in the town of Kom Ombo in Aswan Governorate, Upper Egypt. It was constructed during the Ptolemaic dynasty, 180–47 BC. Some additions to it were later made during the Roman period.
2.8 km · building in Egypt · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Temple of Kom Ombo
An unusual double Temple of Sobek and of Haroeris built in the reign of Ptolemy VI (186-147 BC); there were earlier shrines but little remains of those.
- 02Silsila
15 km north of Kom Ombo, at a point where cliffs pinch the river channel.
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Getting to Kom Ombo
- Airports
- Aswan (ASW), 58 km · Luxor (LXR), 136 km · Marsa Alam (RMF), 205 km
- Aswan → Kom Ombo43 km · quickest by road, 49 min · E£60–85
- Luxor → Kom Ombo139 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · E£225–300
- Marsa Alam → Kom Ombo207 km · quickest by road, 5h 56m · E£380–510
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No local-transport research exists yet for Kom Ombo
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kom Ombo. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe temple is 5 km southwest of the station, so a taxi might be LE20 or a tuk-tuk LE10, or just walk.
- Get inThere are few facilities here (though tuk-tuks wait 200 m north).
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Next door to Kom Ombo
Kom Ombo is 42 km from Aswān, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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