Abu Simbel

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On arrival in Abu Simbel one of the members of our tour became very sick on the train he had a temperature of 41, he was delirious and did not know his name or where he was so he had to be taken to a doctor…. (he was put on a drip) I hope that what he had doesn’t spread.

The rest of us headed over to our hotel where we could settle in, have a shower and prepare for a boat trip over to see a stunning Temple of Isis at Philae Island. After returning to the hotel to change cloths we then headed out again to visit a local Nubian family in order to sit down and enjoy some traditional food in the chiefs’ residence.

The food was very nice, the houses around here very rarely have roofs and consist of just a few walls often no doors and some mats sometimes made from plastic. One thing all Egyptians are not without surprising enough is satellite television, no matter how simple their living conditions may seem to look like from the outside, they still have pay TV.. I believe the first television broadcast was in Egypt (But I’m not sure if that fact is correct, just repeating what I was told)

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Photos

Abu Simbel
Sunset over the Nile at Abu Simbel from the roof top of the hotel

Local Nubian hospitality
Dinner in the Nubians house, simple dwelling, no roof or doors, plastic mats and Satellite TV

Temple of Isis at Philae Island
Beautiful temple carefully relocated and reconstructed from a previous site below the water level after the Dam was created.

Temple of Isis at Philae Island
The Alter

Temple of Isis at Philae Island
The detailed walls inside the temple

Temple of Isis at Philae Island
another view of the temple and fauna

Satellite anyone?
An example of what Egypt is like, houses are almost always unfinnished - matter of fact everything is almost always unfinnished but no one is witohut satellite television