Our representative will pick you up from your hotel in Aswan on the agreed time and transfer you to enjoy an excursion to one of the largest monasteries in Egypt Saint Simeon Monastery; this fortress Christian monastery originally had walls ten meters tall, with keeps or towers which were used as lookout posts against enemies and two levels. The lower level of stone is mostly intact, but the upper level of mud-brick has all but vanished. The monastery was rebuilt in the 10th century, but destroyed in 1173 by Saladin who feared that it might serve as a refuge of marauding Christian Nubians, who made forays into southern Egypt. At the end of your tour you will be transferred back to your hotel.