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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Abu Simbel, Egypt

The Temple of Abu Simbel, located 289km south of Aswan and very close to the southern boarder with Sudan. Because of it's location we have to travel as early as 3am from Aswan to Abu Simbel. We took a minivan that we arranged with our hostel in Aswan cost about 75EGP/ pax plus a small snack box(the price was ok plus the owner allow us to shower after our trip back even though we've checked out).


the travelling time took us about 4 hours by the time we reached Abu Simbel was already 7am
we have about 3 hours. It was more than enough plus by noon the weather will be unbearably warm.
Tip: bring a hat


entrance fee for Abu Simbel cost 40EGP for student and 80EGP for normal ticket. There will be also some local fee(25EGP for student and 50EGP for normal) and a guide fee(13EGP). Funny thing about this guide fee is that...there is NO guide for you there but you still have to pay for it nonetheless :S


I've seen this scene many times in documentaries, now it my turn! with my own eyes


simply spectacular


the facade 4 seated colossi of the King, represents the King seated on his throne and 

accompany by 3 small figures of his wives, daughters and sons flanking his legs

i just couldn't stop wowing 


Boon admiring the facade


the head of the 2nd statue from the left on the grown. They said it supposedly fell during an earthquake shortly after its construction. On moving the temple it was decided to leave it as the face is missing. I only see the ear


figure of Re-Hor-Akhty above the main entrance of this temple which dedicated to the God Re-Hor-Akhty





too bad no photo inside



this is the best we can get from the entrance.
Inside it's not very big but alot of small rooms with interesting wall carving


alot of this bird statues just infront the entrance


big bird and small birds


details




friends we made during our 3 days 2 nights Nile cruise trip


the king and i


just beside the 1st temple is the Temple of Hathor and Nefertari or also known as The Small Temple


Queen Nefertari was the most beloved wife of King Ramses II


this 6 standing colossi represent Ramses II and Queen Nefertari

see the top part, rocks in square shapes? the 2 temples were cut in to many pieces, and they were reconstructed again on a site 65m higher than the original site because of the rising water level of Lake Nasser while the High Damn was being built




side by side they stand tall




view of the lake Nasser




i just noticed that there are numbers of baboons figure on top oh the 4 colossi


our 1 last shot with the temple 




still can't believed i was there!!! I WAS AT ABU SIMBEL


yippy!

damn another 4 hours drive back to Aswan :S


from Aswan we then took the train back to Luxor. We decided to blend in again with the local by buying 2nd class train ticket. The ticket cost 25EGP/pax 1 way and 45-50EGP/ pax 1 way for 1st class. Boy was that a wrong decision! why? it's not dangerous or anything it's just that in 2nd class alot of the local staring at you. plus the canteen is in between the 1st and 2nd class so alot of the other classes will pass by 2nd class to go to the canteen. Anyway it was an uncomfortable 3 hours ride


From Luxor we then flew back to Berlin


the view was cool and very brown ;D


as much as i love Egypt but I'm glad to go back home ;)


~bye bye~

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