Shellal
Shellal is a small ancient village on the banks of the Nile, south of Aswan in Upper Egypt.
Shellal is a small ancient village on the banks of the Nile, south of Aswan in Upper Egypt. It was the traditional northern frontier of the Nubian region with both the Egyptian Empire and the Roman Empire. During the period of ancient Egypt, it was a very important quarry area for granite production. A canal was excavated in the vicinity of Shellal under Merenre Nemtyemsaf I during the Old Kingdom period in order to facilitate the navigation of the first-cataract of the Nile. This canal was restored under Senusret III in the Middle Kingdom period
Nowadays it is possible to see some unfinished granite works on the site ; some of the objects on display include incomplete statues of Osiris and Ramesses II and unfinished Roman baths.
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Worth seeing in and around Shellal
7 places 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.
- 01Aswan Low Dam
The Aswan Low Dam or Old Aswan Dam is a gravity masonry buttress dam on the Nile River in Aswan, Egypt. The dam was built by the British at the former first cataract of the Nile, and is located about 1000 km up-river and 690 km south-southeast of Cairo.
2.5 km · dam in Egypt · Wikipedia - 02Temple of Isis in Philae
The Philae temple complex is an island-based temple complex in the reservoir of the Aswan Low Dam, downstream of the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, Egypt in Africa. Originally, the temple complex was located on Philae Island, near the expansive First Cataract of the Nile in Upper Egypt.
2.7 km · Temple of Isis in Philae now located on Agilkia island · Wikipedia - 03Trajan's Kiosk
Trajan's Kiosk, also known as Pharaoh's Bed by the locals, is a hypaethral temple currently located on Agilkia Island in southern Egypt. The unfinished monument is attributed to Trajan, Roman emperor from 98 to 117 AD, due to his depiction as pharaoh seen on some of the interior reliefs.
2.8 km · ancient building on Philae, Egypt · Wikipedia - 04International Museum of Nubia
The Nubian Museum is an archaeological museum in Aswan, Upper Egypt. It was built in 23 November 1997 following the UNESCO International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia.
3.3 km · museum in Aswan, Egypt · Wikipedia - 05Aswan Museum
Aswan Museum is a museum in Elephantine, located on the south-eastern side of Aswan, Egypt. It was set up in 1912 by the British Egyptologist Cecil Mallaby Firth.
3.9 km · museum on the island of Elephantine, Aswan, Egypt · Wikipedia - 06Temple of Satet
The Temple of Satet or Satis was an ancient Egyptian temple dedicated to the goddess Satet, a personification of the Nile inundation. The temple was located on the Nile Valley island of Elephantine, Egypt.
3.9 km · ancient Egyptian temple · Wikipedia - 07Aswan Stadium
Aswan Stadium is a stadium in Aswan, Egypt. It has a capacity of 11,000 spectators.
1.8 km · building in Egypt · Wikipedia
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Getting to Shellal
- Airports
- Aswan (ASW), 12 km · Luxor (LXR), 181 km · Marsa Alam (RMF), 240 km
- Luxor → Shellal185 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · E£295–395
- Marsa Alam → Shellal233 km · quickest by road, 6h 41m · E£500–670
- Suhaj → Shellal312 km · quickest by road, 6h 30m · E£590–780
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Shellal
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 Shellal. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe following airlines operate services to Aswan International Airport: Astraeus (from London Gatwick), EgyptAir (from Abu Simbel, Cairo, Luxor), LotusAir (from Cairo) and Petroleum Air Services (PAS) charter service (from Cairo).
- Get inThese are luxury cruise tours taking 5 or more days for a splurgy price, they're not ferries.
- Get inA passenger ferry operated by Nile River Valley Transport Corporation sails across Lake Nasser to Wadi Halfa in Sudan once a week.
- Get aroundThe public ferry to Elephantine Island is LE5 for foreigners (LE1 for Egyptians, Nov 2018).
- Get aroundThe ferry to the West Bank is also LE5 for foreigners and LE1 for locals.
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Next door to Shellal
Shellal is 5 km from Aswān, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.