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Day tour from
Luxor to Abu Simbel |
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Meet
our Representative in Luxor { Please advise your hotel name } to accompany
you by private air-conditioned car to transfer to Luxor railway station
to travel to Aswan by First Class Seating Train { Train Number 84
} depart Luxor railway station at 05.05 A.M and Arrive Aswan railway
station at 08.15 Meet & assist by our Representative with the
Sign of your name, Then transfer by private air-conditioned car to
Abu Simbel, Arrive Abu Simbel then visit the two temples at Abu Simbel
among the most magnificent monuments in the world but their removal
and reconstruction was an historic event in itself. When the temples
(280 km from Aswan) were threatened by submersion in Lake Nasser,
due to the construction of the High Dam the Egyptian Government secured
the support of UNESCO and launched a world wide appeal. During the
salvage operation which began in 1964 and continued until 1968, the
two temples were dismantled and raised over 60 meters up the sandstone
cliff where they had been built more than 3,000 years before. Here
they were reassembled, in the exact same relationship to each other
and the sun, and covered with an artificial mountain. Most of the
joins in the stone have now been filled by antiquity experts, but
inside the temples it is still possible to see where the blocks were
cut. You can also go inside the man made dome and see an exhibition
of photographs showing the different stages of the massive removal
project.
Abu Simbel was first reported by J. L. Burckhardt in 1813, when he
came over the mountain and only saw the facade of the great temple
as he was preparing to leave that area via the Nile. The two temples,
that of Ramesses II primarily dedicated to Re-Harakhte, and that of
his wife, Nefertari dedicated to Hathor, became a must see for Victorians
visiting Egypt, even though it required a trip up the Nile, and often
they were covered deeply in sand, as they were when Burckhardt found
them.. Drive back to Aswan railway station to travel back to Luxor
by First Class Seating Train { end of our Service }.
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