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.
Getting to Kom Ombo
Trains from Cairo take 10 hr to Luxor then another 3 hr via Esna and Edfu to
- 01Kom Ombo
There are 10-12 per day, so you should be able to avoid an early-hours arrival or departure.
Worth seeing
- 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.
Getting around Kom Ombo the local way
- 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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