Cairo to Abu Simbel

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January 24th 2012
Face of GizaFace of Giza
Face of Giza
Too bad the nose was missing.
We started the trip south with a trip to Giza and the pyramids. It really surprised us to find that the pyramids are in a suburb of Cairo. Out of the bus and on to a camel. Lumbering over the sand dunes towards the Great Pyramid. What a sight to behold. the Sphinx was as enigmatic as anything we've come across. After the pyramids we went to the Cairo museum. A gigantic storehouse of Egyptian antiquities including Ramses I, the mummy that was found in the Niagara Falls museum in 1996. That night we took the night train from Cairo down to Aswan.

From Aswan we went on a long bus ride down to Abu Simbel to see the re-constructed temple of Ramses II. It was astounding to think that they took the temple apart, stone by stone and re-built it when they flooded the area after the construction of the Aswan Big Dam in the early '60s.



After Aswan we take a felucca up to Luxor. Can't wait.
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The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom arose circa 3200 B.C. and a ser...more info
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Pyramids in the distance.Pyramids in the distance.
Pyramids in the distance.
The first sight of the pyramids is over the desert and through the sandstorms.
Hamming it up on the camels.Hamming it up on the camels.
Hamming it up on the camels.
Always fun riding the camels.
Proof we were there.Proof we were there.
Proof we were there.
LG and me at Giza.
Abu SimbelAbu Simbel
Abu Simbel
Fabulous carvings saved from the flooding of the Nile.
Ramses IRamses I
Ramses I
Huge carvings of Ramses I
LG at Abu SimbelLG at Abu Simbel
LG at Abu Simbel
Beautiful reliefs at Abu Simbel
Re-constructed MountainsRe-constructed Mountains
Re-constructed Mountains
The whole mountain was constructed to house the temple.
LB in Abu SimbelLB in Abu Simbel
LB in Abu Simbel
A really amazing feat of construction.






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