Workers on some restoration process near the Abu Simbel statues in South Egypt

When you go to any site in Egypt that boasts of some ancient monument, you will find some restoration process. Egypt only really started caring for its historic monuments and realizing their tourist potential a few decades back, and ever since then, there is a regular process of stabilization and restoration of these monuments that is ongoing. In addition, there are a number of such monuments all over the country that need to have prioritization in terms of restoration process, and working on such ancient structures needs a lot of time to be spent in the restoration process.
In this case, there were these workers on some restoration project around a hundred meters or so from the statues and the temple, enough distance that tourists would not be distracted by this restoration process.

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Photo of the front facade of the Great Temple of Abu Simbel in Egypt

As you come to the site of Abu Simbel after a long drive from Aswan (because of previous security concerns, vehicles move in a convoy from Aswan to Abu Simbel twice in a day), or you can go there by flight or by ship; you pass through security gates and then you can see a large hillock close to Lake Nasser. And then you start turning around the edge of the hillock, and you start seeing these magnificent statues carved onto the front surface of the hillock. These are huge statues, towering over you, and you can just imagine the effect these must be having on travelers who came across these statues in the 13th century BC when they were constructed.

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View from below of one of the statues of the beautiful temples of Abu Simbel in Egypt

The Abu Simbel statues are one of the most important temples in Egypt, not as famous as the Pyramids or the Sphinx, but still pretty famous. These are a set of 2 statues built into rock-faces, located in Nubia, Egypt, around 280 km from the nearest major city of Aswan. They are a UNESCO World Heritage site, that are also famous for being rescued from the rising waters of Lake Nasser due to the construction of the Aswan dam. They were physically moved in an incredible feat, this process being completed in the year 1968.
These temples were built near the border with Sudan, built by the greatest Egyptian pharaoh, Pharaoh Ramesses II in the 13th century BC, as a way to demonstrate his status as a living god, and also to ensure that any visitors from the south would get awed by his might.

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View of tourists at the base of the pillars of the Hypostyle Hall in the Karnak temple

The sheer size of the pillars at the Hypostyle Hall inside the Karnak temple is immense. If you see this photo, you can see people at the base of the pillars, and the pillars go way up in the area (and used to have a roof a long time back, but now most of the roof has fallen).
The total covered area of the Hypostyle Hall is around 50,000 square feet, and there are a total of 134 such pillars, arranged in multiple rows.

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Trees in a row outside the front section of the Karnak temple

The space outside the Karnak Temple (or rather, in front of the temple) with a row of palm trees. The space in front of the temple is huge, but then this space is not used for anything; there is no parking in this space as well. Tourists are expected to get out from parking, go through the security scan located in a modern hall, and then walk the distance from the hall to the first pylon of the temple and gain entry.

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Gap between pillars inside the Hypostyle Hall in the Karnak temple

There are a huge number of pillars inside the Hypostyle Hall in the Karnak temple in Luxor (a total of 134) and the structure covers an area of 50,000 square feet (or used to cover, but now there is no roof over the structure). The perspective with you take a photo can determine how you visualize it, so in this case, the photo seems to show that there is very little space between the pillars inside the Hypostyle Hall; while in reality, when you wander inside the Hypostyle Hall, there is a lot of space.

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