Egypt Trip Part II, Aswan & Abu Simbel
Temple of Philae in the year of 1800.
The temple was built for Isis, the goddess of Love and Beauty, originally on a small island called Philae. With the completion of Aswan Low Dam in 1902, most part of the temple was submerged, from 1960 a UNESCO project was carried out in order to relocate the complex, more 40,000 pieces were reestablished in another island Agilkia, situated on higher ground some 500 meters away.
After Luxor, our train was delayed by another train ahead, sun come out with more heat, we are still fast than the poor donkey.
About lunch time, we arrived at our destination, Aswan.
Aswan was where granite was extracted even thousands of years B.C., an cracked Obelisk was found at its original location.
Pictures of Philae Temple. Click here for more information at Wiki.
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a little island in the lake
a boatman
The movie “murder on the nile” was shot in this ship.
Our ship is in one of these.
The next morning, we had to get up at 4 AM to catch up this escorted group for Abu Simbel 390 KM south west of Aswan, armed policeman was even on board each of the big bus.
Sunrise in the desert.
Here is the famous Abu Simbel, I don’t have any photos shot inside, as it is forbidden. Our time here was just about one hour, another 3.5 hours return drive awaiting…
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Aswan Kom Ombo Edfu…
Since the terrorist attacks in southern Egypt in the 1990s there has been a wide range additional security measures in place. There are armed police at all tourist attractions and foreigners can only officially travel in convoy between certain towns. T…
Thanks, right now, the convoy between Aswan and Aub Simbel is the only one so far