A solitary tourist and a police officer near the huge statues of the smaller temple at Abu Simbel

Typically, tourists arrive at the Abu Simbel temple complex in south Egypt in groups, since tourist operators are only allowed to travel there in convoys, twice a day. This was primarily for security purposes ever since a few terrorists strikes some years back on tourists threatened to destroy Egypt's tourism industry. I was waiting for an occasion when I could get photos of the temple without any tourists in the photo, but at last I gave up since this did not seem possible, so even this photo was something that I was fine with.

The Mysteries of Abu Simbel: Ramesses II	View Larger Map

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