Abu Simbel Hotels - Reviews and Rates

We arrived in Aswan in the early morning. We had acouple of hotels picked out to stay in so ew set off on foot from the train station. On the websites each hotel said they were a 10 to 15 minute. As we walked away from the train station we were immediately followed by all manners of transportation- men with taxis, horse carriages and minbuses. T...

Temples of the Nile We flew to Luxor on Dec 24th to begin our journey exploring the temples and tombs of the Nile. On the flight down, a young man fainted on the plane. His sister literally doused him in water and shook him as the parents across the aisle called for help. As they were seated directly behind us, we could see the fear in the paren...

We had to take a flight to Abu Simbel which is a temple built out of the side of a mountain. It was very impressive, especially given the fact that they built it in the middle of nowhere. What was really interesting was that they had to move this historical monument brick by brick because the water level of the Nile was rising due to a dam. They...

G,day All, Wow what a experience again we have a flight this time it was trevor that caused the problems he was caught going thru the metal scanners and they asked me to show him and had a good laugh as here was a 50yr old bloke toting a squirrel around, once again the flight was on Egyptian time and we had to wait for the plane to arrive and ta...

Greek historian Herodotus once said that Egyptians "gather in the fruits of the earth with less labor than any other people." This of course applied to the aggricultural life, but I cannot help but wonder about the touts who are using their ancestors' work to make a living. This must have been going on for hundreds, not if thousands, of years. W...

We got a wake up call this morning bright and early this morning at 6am and ate some yummy breakfast before getting on a bus for the Aswan airport. We decided to go on this extra excursion our first night in Egypt as it involves an airplane ride to the otherwise inaccessible site of the temple of Ramses II and the Temple of Nefertiri. It was rea...

We flew south from Aswan, the furthest South I've been, to see the stupendous Abu Simbel.
Back on the boat I opened presents. At lunch all the staff came out singing carrying a huge chocolate cake. The cabin boys had outdone themselves in decorating our cabin. In the evening we went down the cateracts to have dinner in two nubian homes.

And thus begins the temple marathon... With so many sites to see, I'm having to pack the archaelogical site in! The first of these is Abu Simbel, nearly all the way to the Sudanese border. Because there have been some problems with tourists in southern Egypt, foreigners get shuttled around in police convoys. The term "police convoy" sounds so im...

Wow, I went from a tropical jungle to the middle of a desert. an 18 hour train ride and 3 hour bus brought me to the banks of the great Lake Nasser (actaully the Nile) nearly in the Country of Sudan to see the Abu Simbal Temple. I can't say much but wow. Unfortunatly many of these temples have been moved from their original locations but they ar...

So we got up at 3 am, went downstairs, only to find that despite promises of a full sized bus, we would be riding in a minibus all day. Since there were 16 of us and 17 seats this didn't really leave a lot of room for the sleep that we were promised. It took us about 3 hours to get there on a super bumpy road, not in time for sunrise we might ad...