Our Journey to Abu Simbel

Well there you go Abu Simbel, and to think the entire thing was cut up and moved as when the High Dam was built it floored the valley that it was in and it would now be completely underwater. What a waste that would of been. I'm not sure if you can really understand the size of it, but you will see in the photos later.

This is at 7:30 in the morning and the reason there is so many people is that there was a police escort that left Aswan at 4:30 am and that is the only time most travel companies will go there as they will not risk driving through the desert without one.



The four statues are the Pharaoh Ramesses II at four stages of his life as he aged these are 67 feet or 20.5 meters tall. On the inside in the sanctuary at the very rear of the temple is four statues, three of the Gods as well as one of Ramesses II himself. One of the amazing things with this temple is that on 22nd February and 22nd October, the birthday and coronation day of Ramesses II











The face of one of the statues fell off during an earthquake before it was moved and as the temple was reassembled exactly as it was previously they also place the head in the same place.












Well aren't you a big boy?












What that speck is Tracey. Now you know what I mean about it being BIG!