Advantages: Winter sunshine combined with culture and comfort Disadvantages: Terrorist threats can deter some visitors but the Egyptians are security aware
...statues of Ramesees 11 at Abu Simbel. Once the High Dam was built, an amazing feat by Soviet engineers, the Nubian Desert began to slowly fill with Nile waters, an estimated time of six years, when the Egyptian government sent out a worldwide plea for help as the lake was forming faster than at first thought and it was evident that the Temple at Abu Simbel would be swallowed up by the rising waters. An international team of around three thousand ... ...several ancient temples, before reaching Abu Simbel where we were to stay for two nights then on our return to Aswan we would visit more ancient monuments on the other side of the Lake. The gradual build up to the main event, our arrival at Abu Simbel, was in itself exciting. The scenery once we set sail was beautiful. The blue waters of Lake Nasser were set in sharp contrast to the surrounding mountainous desert on either shoreline. All the large ...
mornev 18.02.2004
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Advantages: Takes your breath away Disadvantages: You may be hurried
...is one such place, and Abu Simbel is one other.
Built by Ramses II (the Ozymandias of Shelley's poem), the two temples at Abu Simbel are a monument to a) Ramses' love of his wife, Neferati and b) his rampaging ego. They are breathtaking in their majesty, which is compounded by their isolated location. It is a fact that the temples were moved in the early 1960s in order to avoid being 'drowned' by the development of the Aswan dam and the creation ... ...Secondly the guide at Abu Simbel spent sooooooooo long going on about the background to the temple that only those of us rude enough to walk away from him and go and explore on our own managed to see the temples in anything like detail.
Abu Simbel is a place of magic and mystery. It is my hope that if I have the chance to return, I will see the temple at either sunrise or sunset and watch the golden rays of Amun Ra play upon the ancient, impassive ...
Medusa 11.03.2001
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Advantages: absolutely breathtaking - far better than the pyramids Disadvantages: expensive
...opted for an excursion to Abu Simbel. After paying out loads of cash for the holiday of a lifetime I decided we weren't going to miss out on any excursions. An extra £500 and a wake up call of 5am we had breakfast and caught an internal flight. After climbing off the coach we began the short walk to the temple. There were street vendors on the road down to the temple, selling souvenirs and ornaments, who were probably the most polite vendors that ... ...first glimpse. We took a visit to the pyramids a few days later, and what a let down after seeing Abu Simbel they were. It is worth going to Egypt just to see Abu Simbel. If you go to Egypt and don't see it you are missing out BIG TIME. ...
sekhmetscat 07.12.2002
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...absolutely
include in your travel Abu Simbel between all the templi that I have
visited is what more
impressed me In the first place the ancient Egyptians who
I think were crazy have constructed a tempio digging in a mountain
and gaining on the facades of the high statues more than 30 meters
representing the large one remses because it is said that it has made it to construct, The mountain in 1962 has been cut to slices and moved otherwise ...
FEDERICH 27.08.2000
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