Abu Simbel
March 1st 2009 For those who make the trip to Aswan, there are tours daily to Abu Simbel. They however start at 3 a.m.!!
So you arrive at Abu Simbel at 7 a.m., tired as heel but whatever.
Abu Simbel is four 20 m statues of Ramses II carved out of a mountainside. It was built to show his power, and if you could imagine in 1500 B.C. floating down the Nile and coming across this it wuld scare the hell right o
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