It's fun wandering through the many rooms of this ruined monastery and coming across ancient murals here and there. Reaching the site with our guide by camel (and then continuing on our mounts until the Tombs of the Nobles) made for a great experience. Instead of just having a camel ride for the sake of the photo album, we were... More

We rode camels from our guest house to the monastery so we got to see it rise out of the heat like it was straight from a movie. The monastery is pretty interesting but we found our young guide to be too touchy in our photo ops.

For a different trip from Aswan St Simeon's Monastery is a great place to visit, peaceful, interesting and ancient, yet an unusual Christian place of interest. I walked up the track from the landing place (too old for a camel) had a look at the outside of the Aga Khan's mausoleum (not open to public) and then to monastery, very... More

We arranged a boat to sail from our hotel, round the islands to the jetty from which camels could be organised to St Simeon. The monastery itself was peaceful and interesting. It felt a world away from Aswan which could be seen across the river. As at least one other reviewer has mentioned, I felt the defacto guide was trying... More

The Monastery provides a guide and it was a very interesting visit. Its quite substantially ruined so its good to have someone explain what there is to see. I strongly recommend going there on a camel and asking to return via the view point over Aswan. We had a very friendly Nubian camel attendant - taught us the essential Nubian... More

the camel ride to St Simeon was fantastic and really relaxing the Beduion guys are great to chat to as they lead the camel along.....at St Simeon it was nice.....the guide although at the monastery was not good.....he kept trying to hold my hand and wanting photos with us all.....very inappropriate...be careful

I took the public ferry across the Nile for 1 pound to the Tomb of the Nobles, then negotiated a camel ride to the monastery. The camel ride was close to 25 minutes. You can walk to the monastery but it would be a long walk. I think folks that walk depart from the Aga Khan area, there are also... More

St Simeon's monesatry is a palce you really should visit on your trip to Aswan. On the Western hills above the city, it originally seems an uninteresting place, which is hard to get to. However, please persevere! Take a local fellucca to the foot of the mountain and get them to wait while you either walk or take a camel... More

We visited Aswan in December 2011. We contacted Aswan Individual months before to help us organise the activities we wanted to do whilst there. Look them up on TA they are an excellent company to deal with, who help and employ local people.They suggested we take a camel trek from the west bank first to see the Tombs of the... More