Discover Abu Simbel Tour from Luxor, visiting Philae Temple and the High Dam and Nubian Village around Aswan. overnight in Aswan, then head to Abu Simbel in the morning before driving back to Luxor.
This beautiful temple complex is one of the most picturesque in all of Egypt. It sits on Aglika Island just south of the old Aswan Dam and you must ride a water taxi to the island to get to the ruins. The temple was moved to its current location following the construction of the High Dam, which threatened to submerge it permanently. The careful reconstruction at the current site carefully completed, painstakingly preserving the original appearance and layout of the complex and even landscaping the island to match its former location.
It is stretched between Aswan and Abu Simbel at Nasser lake, This place contains many monuments built by different kings through different periods, the most famous King was RamsessII of the 19th Dynasty.
This site south of Aswan along Lake Nasser’s shore is the most famous in all of Egypt after the Giza Pyramids. Built by the greatest of the pharaohs, Ramesses II, these huge rock-cut temples marked the southern boundary of the Egyptian Empire with Nubia at the peak of its power during the New Kingdom. They were meant to convey the power of Egypt’s rulers to anyone who laid eyes upon them.
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