Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Abu Simbel.

It was three thirty in the morning and sounded the alarm. Began a new and difficult day of hiking in Egypt. The day before we arrived in Aswan and today we had an exciting day ahead. This morning we had to visit the majestic complex of Abu Simbel, formed by two rock-cut temples that had to be mobilized piece by piece from its original site to avoid being under the waters of Lake Nasser. For further information.


Thus began the journey of more than three hours by road (road in the middle of the desert) that obviously took the opportunity to sleep. You have two options to reach the plane, which increases the cost of your ticket price and you lose some time between walks through airports and choose another option that mostly everyone is on the road in the desert. A trip in the middle of nowhere, where you see only sand dunes and must be escorted by police to prevent attacks or suffer an accident and never find you. But basically it's worth the second option. In this journey we begin to discover the "wonderful" way of driving to which they are accustomed in this country, and we could see a two-lane highway as they were three vehicles in the same direction fully occupying the width of the road, making changessudden braking direction and put you the creeps.

Immediately upon arrival, breakfast picnic, visit the bathroom (as in the rest of the trip was important to know where he could be the closest) but this time we have not all been affected by the "evil of Pharaoh" leg stretch and preparations for the visit.




So we got to the entrance area of Abu Simbel and again, the experience of our guide allowed us to arrive before the rest of the visitors to take an excellent panoramic position from the monumental complex, since instead of the traditional route of access, took us around the monument for the left, travel a little longer but less traveled.The first image you have is spectacular, indescribable, despite having seen it countless times in photographs, television or any other means. Those two colossal temples you admire and marvel at just seeing his site further along the lake Nasser.Photos of rigor and visit inside where it is not permitted to take photographs but there is always a solution if you have a good zoom, and you can take them from the front door with the guard (yes, it's stupid but those are their rules).


 
After a rest and fluid supplies (this is the only place where they do not haggle over the price of drinks or other articles, as they are in the middle of the desert and you have no choice but to buy in their stores. It's funny.) , we took our way back to our ship for lunch and prepare for outings in the afternoon: the felucca ride and visiting the Nubian village.









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