Oddly colored hillocks on the way from Aswan to Abu Simbel in south Egypt

The route from Aswan to Abu Simbel is a long route, around 260km. It takes around 3 hours to get there, with the road being a road with very little traffic and almost no sort of township enroute. It is just a question of driving on a straight line (but that does not mean that anybody can drive there, traffic over there is only allowed through security cleared tourist vehicles and in twice daily convoys). On the way, what you normally see is a mixture of flat ground, and hillocks. This is a view of some of the small hills that you see on the way, in this case, the color seemed somewhat strange.

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