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Abu Simbel Slideshow
Abu Simbel
Travel Blogs from Abu Simbel, Egypt
Abu Simbel
Travelled by a vehicle to Abu Simbel starting early hours. Visited High Dam, Phila Temple, Unfinished Oblesick and joined the Nile Cruise to return Luxor from Aswan. ...
Dag 4
3.00 opstaan 4.00 bus naar Abu Simbel 5.53 zonsopgang Sahara 7.27 - 9.30 tempels 10.00 terug in bus, vertrek naar Assoean 13.00 boot, lunch, afvaart ri Esna ('s nachts tussen 0.00 en 4.00 stil ...
Abou Simbel, ode à Ramses II
Nous nous sommes levés vers 3 hres AM. On ne peut aller à Abou Simbel sans escorte militaire. On part en convoi. On avait donc apporté notre lunch pour notre déjeuner et on a dormi un bout dans le bus. C'est 3 hres de route ...
Abu Simbel
... is included in the ticket. The common guide thus hired will give you less information and hence I recommend the pre-hired guide. Abu Simbel temple is worth all the pains of an early wake up and extensive travel. It’s a masterpiece of construction ...
Abu Simbel - Alone in the temple... priceless
... to Abu-Simbel and back to Aswan in a day. Sadly we agreed to a E£70 transport out to the site (in a sham convoy). Abu-Simbel was breath taking. Donna, Peter, Chris (another Aussie) and Myself entered the busy temple and looked at the detail and size ...
Northern Sudan during a Muslim holiday
Arriving from touristy and unfriendly Assuan to Sudan really was a big "splash bum bim peng" experience. Suddenly all people are so nice, almost everybody is greeting you on the street, they want to know where you are from, what's your name and what you ...
Long drives, hot sun, and Amazing Ruins
... ok though as towards the end of our stay the crowds had thinned out and we were able to get some better pictures. Anyways, about Abu Simbel... It is the temple of Ramses II. You have probably seen pictures of it, 4 big sitting statues of Ramses ...
AFRICA!!!!!
... night sleeping on the floor in our sleeping bags. We were waken up by the sunrise and the first sight of the day was Egypt's famous Abu Simbel temple at the shores of Lake Nasser. In general the trip on the boat wasn't too bad, it was simply kinda weird ...
Best Laid Plans
BY: Barbara After checking out from the ship and a quick breakfast, we were off to the airport for the short flight to Abu Simbel to see the temples honoring Ramses II and his wife, Queen Nefertari. As we ventured further south toward the border of ...
Wandering around the grounds of Abu Simbel!
... me due to its reflection on the calm waters. From the lake’s shore and looking inland, the Temples of Abu Simbel stood magnificently in the far distance. More tourists were starting to arrive but still the area wasn’t ...
Visiting a 3200 year-old Masterpiece
This was a special day: we were going to visit Abu Simbel. Most travelers to Egypt, including me, consider it the finest monument next to the temple complex at Karnak or Seti I's temple at Abydos. Given our brief time to visit ...
Exploring Abu Simbel's Temple of Ramses II
... of its construction. The most interesting part about this site as explained to us by our guide was that the Temples of Abu Simbel originally consisted of temples cut into solid rock dating back to the reign of King Ramses II (1290-1223 ...
Abu Simbel and the Cruise
... half of our group has a sour stomach), but it's still been the most relaxing part of my entire vacation so far. Abu Simbel was pretty neat though. However, I'll admit that I'm pretty much ignorant of the details relating to ancient ...
Day 4 - Abu Simbel
... of the bus was very far, so we couldn't see the point of this police convoy. Around 3 hours journey, we reached Abu Simbel, The temple was another contribution of UNESCO for their rescue. Before the new Aswan Dam flooded the whole monument, the ...
Abu Simbel and Nubian Wedding
Up at 3 am in order to get to Abu Simbel temple 3 hours drive away from Aswan, we had to go in a police convoy as the temple is very close to the sudanese border, plus is in the middle of the desert, by Lake Nassar. This temple was also moved bit by bit ...
Abu Simbel and Felucca sailing
We had an early morning wake up call, 2.30am for a 3am departure to Abu Simbel. After an uncomfortable 3 hour sleep and a convoy which left us alone. We arrived at the secluded town at 7am and went inside the temple of Abu simbel was built by Pharaoh ...
Abu Simbel, Egypt
... police convoy while we were left slowly driving through the desert with no protection from the police convoy. The ruins of Abu Simbel are at the border of Egypt and Sudan on the shores of Lake Nasser. There are 2 temples we see which are very nice ...
Ramses
... 3am start as we caught the tourist bus to Abu Simbel. and it was more checkpoints and armed guards. But once we arrived at Abu Simbel our jaws dropped to the ground. Abu Simbel had been moved 65mtrs from where it was origionally ...
Day 14, Thursday - Abu Simbel, Aswan
... in the middle of nowhere, but then we saw a sign for Aswan Cement. We arrived at the well organised parking area for Abu Simbel and after walking through the markets area (no tourist site escapes the shop type ones or at least the individual hawkers). ...
Abu Simbel - Monument rescue on a grand scale!
... The modern challenge to raise them above dam water Was well met, reconstruction looks natural. Now Ramses II looks out on a huge lake Named for Nasser, not Ramses. Ramses 4000 years of greatness is now reduced. Modern Egypt has its own ...
Day 4 - ABU SIMBEL
... ;option to visit the massive rock cut temple of ABU SIMBEL. Possibly the most awe-inspiring temple of all ancient Egypt, with its gigantic rock-cut façade, Abu Simbel is a testament to the might of the most revered ruler ...