ABU SIMBEL! The most expensive tour of our trip but of course my favorite! Three hour trek out here, convoys of tourists travel out only two times a day, the trip is through the desert and it makes tourists easy targets so they all go in huge groups and with tourist police spread out through the vans/buses etc. So Abu Simbel was built by King Ramses III. it was built out of the heart of the moutain so the whole temple is one peice. When they damed the Nile river the temple was covered so they cut the temple in 40 000 peices and relocated it to this spot. The temple however, was built in a very particular manner. The chambers inside the temple were built in such a way that the back most chamber was lit only twice a year by the sun, Feb 21st and Oct 21st. The year he was crowned and his birth year. when they moved the temple they made an inch of a mistake and now it is lite on the 22nd of both months.... aw. haha.



Here is the temple out of the same mountainn that was built for King Ramses III's wife.. well one of them he had 52. Apparently this one was the most beautiful woman in Egypt. Fun fact, he also married his daughter, who is present in all of his statues... you can see her in between his feet in the first picture (all statues are of him in that picture)



This next picture was taken inside a house in a Nubian village, in this house they raise crocs until they are 10 months and then put them in the nile. Apparently crocodiles are having a hard time now with the dam. They also had four croc eggs that they showed us, were supposed to be hatching in a couple of weeks.

This is a Felluca! We spent a day on one, floating down the Nile.